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@marcoarment @gruber orange is really the new black
John Siracusa…because if there's one thing Sauron is known for, it's not allowing anyone to sneakily infiltrate his stronghold. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/05/tech-ceos-elites-home-security-silicon-valley/
I pasted actual frames from "The Shining" (1980) into an iPhone 16 frame without any repositioning or reframing of the image. Look, Kubrick made this movie for TikTok!
You know, I appreciate @gruber asking Apple about their carbon goals related to Apple Intelligence, but he didn’t ask about the effects of putting open AI on a billion devices, which I assume will hasten the heat death of planet earth by a lot?
kottke.orgAsked how he feels returning to an Alabama ballpark where he played in the 60s, Reggie Jackson answered with brutal truth. “Coming back here is not easy. The racism when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled.” https://kottke.org/24/06/reggie-jackson-honesty-baseball-alabama-60s
@gruber You should follow up with a link to that time Eric Schmidt didn’t know how incognito mode worked. (And quite relevant to current news, if you look at the question that was asked of him.) https://bgr.com/general/eric-schmidt-on-google-chrome-incognito-mode/
jimrayMe, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”
VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”
Bob Dively
so what's the timeline on the apology video, gang?
The Humane AI Pin
After a lot of hype — and a massive last-minute leak — Humane has launched its first product, the AI Pin. (Humane spells the product name differently in various places on its website, but I'm going with this style.) I encourage you to take ten minutes and watch the introductory video, which shows off the hardware, [...]