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🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom
Not an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.
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🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician
Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC.
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Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.
💬 Steven Colbert
Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.
💬 Haruki Murakami
Have to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G ..
It will eventually start getting scared of words.
That said - I know I have been guilty of this … no pain intended - I thought I was helping.
Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution …
🔗 Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can’t Work
.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago.
🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om
So what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-handedly shift the trajectory of your most important product bet. I mean, Zuck has been paying a lot more for far less sexy hires. Sam must have had to match whatever Zuck was dangling, right?
I suspect that the ‘nine figures’ doesn’t include the numbers after the decimal point.
🔗 Scripting News: New RSS feature from Manton
Brilliant .. and just tested … it works for us all .. I feel a new mod to my blog navigation coming on.
Thankyou for the heads up @dave
Thankyou for doing the work @manton
🔗 NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com
It’s a tool specifically for people documenting or blogging about apps (though anybody might get a kick out of it).
Paging @amerpie
It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.
Ship an update every day. Learn from what works, relentlessly improve what doesn’t.
But companies destroy themselves and empires rot from within, and the people living inside these systems almost never see the collapse coming, because the system itself is the lens through which they view the world.
(A fish doesn’t think “it’s wet in here”)
Joan is mainly writing about AI - but just as important to a 2026 America.
🔗 Followup on the future of AI
Nobody knows anything.
@AndySylvester - coincidentally something i was chatting about just this morning. Our conclusion: If you know nothing - you will never be able to properly use AI.
BUT - as we all know - everybody does know something. In fact likely A LOT - about something - and that no matter how narrow the topic - the depth can be - is - always extraordinary.
Once you have your niche - you are in a position to ask the right questions and understand the answers.
It all fails when you don’t ask questions and don’t understand the answers.
🔗 A Random List of Silly Things I Hate - Tangible Life
Silly? I don’t think so. AND I suspect that @bradenslen and @MitchW would be in full agreement …. 🦯
🔗 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Signs New Clearview A.I. Deal
This is not facial recognition of criminals or even people suspected of wrongdoing. It is recognition of anyone who has a face that has been photographed and shared even semi-publicly.
ANYONE
.. another one I have seen before an never shared - who knew that Jack Black had this voice inside of him?
El Estepario Siberiano has been popping into my feed for well over a year - and every time I am blown away - but until now never shared him here.
Fixed.
🔗📼🎵 This could be my BEST video TO DATE. - YouTube
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🔗📼🎵 MY STORY - HOW I MADE 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. - YouTube
🔗 Mark Bernstein: AI: New Frontiers
Today’s AI can make you better at doing things you do well. That is what AI is for.
A simple sentence to cut through the noise.
we will discover that even if your job mostly consists of interacting with LLMs, doing so well will require people who remember what it was like to read and interpret a document or contrast two ideas without asking an LLM to do it for you.
There used to be a lot of people that used to be able to thatch roofs - and now there aren’t. But that isn’t quite the same IMHO.
🔗 Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock – FlowingData
This comes shortly after Ring’s Super Bowl commercial for dog-finding. Ring owners were already rumbling, but it seems cute dogs were not enough to calm things down. Trust is already lost
Even tech companies are drawing lines.
🔗 Meta planning facial recognition with glasses – FlowingData
Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.
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