“Contentbeheerder” is much better job title than “Content Manager.” Once again the Dutch have beat us at words. To anglophone ears it's got a mix of: Herding things; buzzing bees; and comically-mispronounced beheading (“if you miss your deadline I will beherd you”) which makes it accurate.

I'm at work emailing people who downloaded a white paper, in order to introduce our company. I'm working through a tranche of publishers so I keep going to their websites and then end up buying books. I'm basically doing marketing backwards.

Wrote meta about Meta in the Aboard newsletter aboard.com/the-shapeshi...

worst chili peppers album ever

Person inventing the bread slicer: “This is superb. This is the best thing since...I actually can't think of anything else.”

Toaster creator: “You absolute AMATEUR.”

In our workplace newsletter I was permitted to write about how the new AI, LLM, might be a trojan horse filled with the old AI, RDF triplestores. aboard.com/triple-threat/

Museum/library/metadata peeps—we're doing an “AI Comes to the Museum” event at our office in NYC August 18—nice folks and snacks, all talking about: The cultural commons, approaching things carefully, projects that work, things to watch out for, subjects of that nature. luma.com/aboard-77hq

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I kicked over a hornet’s nest today and can confirm that expression is spot on.

Queens Night Market!