Animals
Winston the Scottie brings us the nag of the season...
What's back? The heat's back. Winston would rather stay in the car...with the air conditioner running.
To which Serena adds, "Don't forget to water your cats!" If you drink bottled water, you can pour the first tablespoon or so into the cat's dish, then sit on the porch steps and finish the bottle.
Tom Cox's cat, Charles, adds that cats enjoy curling up with a good book. Especially their humans'. What? You've not written a book? Then buy his human's book--if it's available where you are. His human writes good books.
Several of Cox's books are on Amazon but he prefers that you buy them anywhere else.
Cyberspace
Do you follow any of those social media accounts that claim millions of followers? Some of their followers are of course bots. Some are reportedly slaves--bot farmers have been busted for telling people they had to pay off huge debts by generating product-friendly social media content, bots to boost it, and if the bot farmers were especially cruel actual sales; since these bot farmers weren't paying the people who actually built the bot armies they sold, their only way to incentivize better posts was beating the ones who weren't credited for a quota of actual sales.
Not that everyone whose social media following has suddenly expanded to include a brigade of people they don't know has any idea where their bot followers are coming from. Some people build bot armies for fun as well as profit, and present themselves on social media as your international fans who just happen to have a lot of e-friends. Who has the time to find out how many of their social media followers' friends have ever posted one piece of hand-typed content? Most of them are bots who are built just to "like" and "share."
But some people really have picked up a lot of social media followers...by starting out with a lot of personal friends who were active online, schmoozing and picking up more e-friends on celebrity and news story pages, posting content that filled popular market niches, bringing real-world expertise to their niches, even being local celebrities in real life. It took a certain amount of talent and hard work for them to become "social media influencers." Some of their followers are humans in your market area so you might want these influencers to review your product. Or advertise it.
Not linked here, though easy to find, is the picture of a Brazilian social media influencer who posted a selfie of herself apparently wearing cute, form-fitting, pale blue pajamas with soccer promotional graphics printed all over them. Er, um, those weren't pajamas. Apparently the woman is naturally bottom-heavy and created her outfit by carefully sticking a set of matching pale blue stickers with soccer graphics all over her actual body. She's modestly covered, but you're not looking at any actual cotton. Some people haaated that little publicity stunt. Some people just don't like when women think of things before they do.
Then there's a male social media influencer who took $500 to eat a meal at a restaurant and post about it. He ate the meal. He never has posted about it. If you follow "Christian Garcia," you might want to stop following him now. If so inclined, you might even post that you're not following him because he owes a restaurant a bit of publicity.
Music
Johnny Lee.
Technology
Eleanor Morton's impression of the men who want to build the monster data centers...well, I laughed.
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