Mastodawn

So it turns out you can just hand a photograph of something to an AI like Tripo, and it will just spit out a viable 3D recreation 👀 Found this great little watchtower outpost thing on Pinterest, generated a mesh from it, and spent the evening learning how to use Blender enough to slice it up and make it printable, as an experiment. Only have access to the free mode, so the mesh is a bit blobby, but I'm very interested to see if it prints. Another alarming and problematic superpower of the AI era

Michael Schwinges 4d ago

Gernot 4d ago

I hope at some point #Xcode will be multi-window again. I want the console in an extra window. I want (multiple!) Previews in extra windows. I want the AI in an extra window.

When at my desk I have a Studio Display, the internal MacBook screen, and potentially an iPad screen with SideCar. Yet I can only really use the main Studio Display.

Please go back to what macOS was made for and what it was good at. If they don't make Xcode for iPad, what's the point of the one-window interface anyways?

Michael Schwinges 6d ago

"The question of whether AI is 'good' or 'bad' is pointlessly crude [... ] employers are using AI to empower some workers while subjecting others to more intensive, inhumane forms of oversight
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance

Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it

The Guardian

Michael Schwinges 6d ago

This is what we're breathing... every winter morning I have sweep the soot produced by the neighbourhood's scandi-style glass and iron fireplaces from my pool steps

Michael Schwinges 6d ago

RE: https://chaos.social/@lucaslove/116554955958450717

Following the very cool private radio station app Macrowave, a very cool way to self-publish Mac apps, with the same high level of polish. Well done!

Michael Schwinges May 8

The Galaxy S26 is an epiphany... needed an Android dev phone and I'm blown away at what a great ebook reader it is: fits perfectly in the hand, as good as no bezels and it's so lightweight to hold while reading

Michael Schwinges May 7

Benno May 7

Michael Schwinges Apr 25

GeriAQuin Apr 25

#denmark Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades.

In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%.

Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Michael Schwinges Apr 24

Ronan Apr 24

Waymo, a Google-owned company, which officially launched its self-driving taxi fleet in London earlier this month, has told cycling campaigners that it is “normal practice” for their taxis to veer into and block cycle lanes
#cycling #roadSafety
https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has allegedly told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.But Waymo has denied making such a claim, instead pointing ... Read more

road.cc

Michael Schwinges Apr 10

Pedro Piñera Apr 10

Not quite the same, but I’ve been observing other businesses in @tuist space and their models, and the way they are run gave me this sad feeling of the people behind them not really caring about the problem space. It’s purely about maximising value extraction as any cost to approach an exit or going public.

And this lack of care percolates to the extreme where they even publish case studies of customers they don’t have.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20

Westenberg.

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