🔗 Scripting News: ChatGPT-the-Movie … I must have missed this on Bluesky when @dave first posted it 9 months ago - and no idea how it now got resurfaced. 🤷🏻♂️
💬 The Essence of a Machine - Om
I can’t remember when I used the words “cute” and “want” about a computer in the same breath.
💬 Experian and TransUnion Are Leaving More Mistakes on Credit Reports
I will never understand how these companies became so powerful. Yes - I have read explanations. No - I don’t understand how they were allowed.
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🔗 Dave Winer on Manton’s Inkwell
I could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months.
IMHO - something for the world of RSS to think about. Like mail clients - there is not even a ‘one size fits one’ - thats why I have multiple apps - but as more recently appeared importing and exporting OPML is very tedious.
And don’t even get me started on where I put new discoveries.
🔗 Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical.
For years, Apple was told it absolutely had to make a netbook, and the company looked at netbooks and said, “Ew, David,”, which is weird because “Schitt’s Creek” would not come out for like six more years.
The Macalope does have a way with words.
🔗 The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco
Apple didn’t miss the AI revolution. It just bet that the winners won’t be the ones who build the infrastructure. They’ll be the ones who own the customer and no one else on Earth owns the best customers.
And to keep it all balanced …
🔗 Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can’t Cash - Siegler
Because Apple so badly bungled their AI strategy in 2023 and 2024, they’re missing shipping targets for actual products in 2025 and 2026.
Seth: 🔗 Small changes to big systems
What doesn’t scale? Trust, attention and belonging.
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AI is making relatively small changes to very big systems, everywhere we look. But if those systems are built on the desires of humans, we will need to earn trust, attention and belonging more than ever before.