Jared Newman

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Guess I'm buying some Korean smooth jazz/funk today #bandcampfriday https://neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/super-brass-2
Super Brass 2, by Super Brass

10 track album

Neoncity Records
I was having trouble keeping track of everything that's been delayed, discontinued, or made more expensive because AI data centers are hogging all the RAM. So I made a running list: https://www.fastcompany.com/91495430/heres-every-cool-tech-thing-the-ai-ram-crunch-is-ruining
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining

A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.

Fast Company

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@bradlinder/115583295468565142

Having flashbacks to Beeper, where we get a brief glimpse of glorious interoperability and then Apple kills it

IMO it's more of a HROOMMPH than a BRAAAM
TIL there is a term (and corresponding Wikipedia page) for the low brass sound, popularized by Inception, to produce a dramatic effect in movie trailers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM
BRAAAM - Wikipedia

Meant to share this earlier! Our smart fridges, Echo devices, and car dashboards are just glorified advertising surfaces now. https://www.fastcompany.com/91432377/samsung-amazon-microsoft-ambient-screen
Tech giants promised ‘ambient computing.’ We got digital billboards instead

The screens we’ve installed everywhere have started to turn against us.

Fast Company
I don't know about you, but I get all my TV reviews from THE VARGE

I mean, remote control is indeed how you train robots to do stuff on their own. But the training is the hard part! If you release the product before you've done the training, there's no product!

https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115469785666458818

Who had "Evernote buys AOL" on their bingo cards? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/yahoo_sells_aol_to_bending/
Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again

: Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye

The Register
@paul Unfortunately I am fully converted to desktop chargers with retractable USB-C cables. There's no going back.