Max Leibman3d ago
New in #Overmorrow: “The MacBook Neo: This feels like cheating.”

MacBook Neo takes are like assholes—I am one.

Wait, that’s not what I m—

https://www.overmorrow.tech/the-macbook-neo-this-feels-like-cheating/
The MacBook Neo: This feels like cheating.

Every time I use the MacBook Neo, I feel like I’m getting away with something. If you have read my previous Overmorrow essays or follow me on Mastodon, you probably know that I am a frequent and unapologetic Windows user, and a Linux dabbler, and a, uh, Chromebook acknowledger.

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Max LeibmanDec 19
‘Typing is my business,’ my latest from #Overmorrow.

Loren ipsum dolor sit amet, motherfucker.

https://overmorrow.tech/typing-is-my-business/
Typing is my business.

Carl Brown, of The Internet of Bugs, appeared on Ed Zitron’s podcast to discuss the failings of vibe coding, but even he admitted he found LLMs useful for some tasks, because—among other reasons—the AI can type faster than you can. Upon hearing that, I was struck by

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Max LeibmanDec 12
'Let the machine do the dishes,' my latest from #Overmorrow.

The world's worst AI assistant makes the case for using AI.

Read and subscribe for free:
https://www.overmorrow.tech/let-the-machine-do-the-dishes/
Let the machine do the dishes.

The least intelligent artificial intelligence recently clarified my feelings about where I can accept AI. Or, at least, where I understand its appeal. Shortly after getting my AirPods, I was doing the dishes and listening to a podcast, which paused for Siri to announce that my wife “sent a photo:

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Max LeibmanDec 12

Tomorrow morning's #Overmorrow heads back into the subject of #AI.

It's not a capitulation, exactly, but it's less critical than some I've written (and less critical than one I'm working on now for the near future). This week it's mostly about empathy for at least *some* of its users.

Read the archive and subscribe for free here:
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Thoughts from the near present.

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Max LeibmanDec 5
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Max LeibmanDec 5

‘Make it weird,’ my latest from #Overmorrow.

This isn’t my biggest disappointment about Microsoft. Hell, it’s not even my biggest disappointment about Microsoft this week.

#tech #newsletter #surface

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https://overmorrow.tech/make-it-weird/

Make it weird.

The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is unhinged. It's a computer with the form factor of a laptop, but with a second screen where the keyboard, palm rest, and trackpad would normally go. When used in a laptop configuration, a Bluetooth keyboard can magnetically attach to the lower touchscreen while leaving

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Max LeibmanDec 5
I've put this week's #Overmorrow to bed.

This time, I'm talking about something I like about Microsoft, which will probably be less appealing to some of you, but it's also mostly about how they're fucking it up, which I hope makes up for it.

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Thoughts from the near present.

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Show threadMax LeibmanNov 28

Tech news and commentary this week seemed like wall-to-wall Black Friday deals, which is neither news nor interesting, so I felt very uninspired every time I sat down to write this week's #Overmorrow.

But when I finally did, I was pretty happy with the results: a (admittedly self-indulgent) look at one way Twitter's algorithm (and Mastodon's lack of one) affects us.

It's also the first issue of the newsletter NOT to mention AI.

https://overmorrow.tech/the-algorithm-hates-me/

The algorithm hates me.

Many of my connections on Mastodon celebrated their third anniversary on the service this month, having joined in the great migration from X, the Everything App™ (née Twitter) in November 2022. I had joined (and left) Mastodon a few years before, but came back in October of 2022—the month

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Max LeibmanNov 28
‘The algorithm hates me,’ my latest from #Overmorrow.

An algorithmic timeline is NOT part of this balanced breakfast.

https://overmorrow.tech/the-algorithm-hates-me/
#twitter #mastodon #tech #newsletter
The algorithm hates me.

Many of my connections on Mastodon celebrated their third anniversary on the service this month, having joined in the great migration from X, the Everything App™ (née Twitter) in November 2022. I had joined (and left) Mastodon a few years before, but came back in October of 2022—the month

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Max LeibmanNov 28

Oh, my god, folks.

I did it.

I wrote an essay for #Overmorrow that doesn't mention AI.

New issue drops here at 7:00 AM Central:
http://overmorrow.tech/

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Thoughts from the near present.

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