Glenn Fleishman

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A printing and comics historian and, somehow, also a tech journalist, book editor, and graphic designer. You can order my book Six Centuries of Type & Printing at https://sixcent.info Find out about my work at glennf.com Two-time Jeopardy! champ.
How Comics Are Madehttps://howcomicsaremade.com/
The Glog Bloghttps://glog.glennf.com
Six Centuries of Type & Printinghttps://sixcent.info/
Glenn Projects Newsletterhttps://buttondown.com/glennf/archive/
Glenn Fleishman38m ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116399151651498217

Another good human from the world of Apple writers and podcasters, gone.

Glenn Fleishman4h ago
You can tune what’s included in a Time Machine backup by *excluding* files, folders, and volumes. More at https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/change-what-time-machine-backs-up/ @sixcolors
Change what Time Machine backs up

Time Machine used to be a mess. I would try it with each new macOS release, get frustrated, and give up. My incoming email from readers was sometimes dominated by Time Machine problems, particularl…

Six Colors
Glenn Fleishman1d ago
FindYourTag now lists 71 devices with built-in Apple Find My Network tracking. People keep sending me more to add, and I keep finding more. I started with 30-odd?! https://findyourtag.net
FindYourTag — Every Find My Network Device, Compared

Compare every Apple Find My Network compatible device from all major brands. Search, filter, and sort AirTags, wallet trackers, luggage tags, earbuds, and more.

FindYourTag
Show threadGlenn Fleishman1d ago
Possible I have become a cenobite.
Glenn Fleishman1d ago
Here’s possibly an even worse one that I’m calling Quindecylinder. It came into my head, so I made a prototype, but it might be far too complex and obscure. https://glennf.com/games/
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
Selzero2d ago

Hume wrote about how perceived similarity is a factor of empathy, for example, a human cannot relate to a piece of string.

The piece of string.

Glenn Fleishman2d ago
Peter Gleick2d ago
Parents of Earth, are your children fully immunized?
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
I may have just prototyped a truly terrible game. https://glennf.com/games/quindecile.html
Glenn Fleishman3d ago
Harry McCracken3d ago
I wrote about Anthropic’s Mythos model, and why its arrival is yet another reason to stop framing AI in terms of a race toward AGI, or superintelligence, or whatever you’d like to call it. https://www.fastcompany.com/91524611/anthropic-claude-mythos-glasswing
Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ AI proves that obsessing over AGI is folly

Maybe LLMs will beat humanity at everything someday. But they’re adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities right now—and we can’t wait for fixes.

Fast Company
Glenn Fleishman4d ago
Show threadMarcin Wichary4d ago
The future was once now.