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@bartreardon @siracusa @marioguzman the idea is fine — the execution is what I find subpar.
Take the holes in this image for example - they don’t look optically balanced even though, technically, they are. They appear to be closer to the top due to the lack of contrast of that ridge just bleeding into the top side of the case. There was effort to put a highlight on the inner body top lip so why not for the outer shell? I also can't look at this icon without imagining it's an L shape, side on.
More people are writing about how the “AI boom” is masking the impact of tariffs and reduced tourism on the economy. Over the last 6 months, spending on AI infrastructure added more to the growth of the US economy than all consumer spending combined.
I’ve noted that we’re entering a cycle of companies facing pain from Trump’s policies looking to AI to cut costs which further boosts AI companies thus fueling a stock market boom that masks the damage.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-so-big-its-propping
🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions.
Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.
This is a major step forward for browser competition.
Full analysis here:
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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/
@siracusa @marioguzman
It’s like the design was a collab and one designer was in camera perspective — the other in orthographic… and both hit render at the same time to create a mashup đź«
Not sure how the holes along the bottom were decided though.🤷‍♂️
I rendered this out — needs more finessing/detail — but at least it looks like it is following some common vanishing points again.
Suddenly and viscerally obsessed with these letterforms. Why has that never occurred to me, and why is it the first time I’m seeing the idea??
(Font is ALS Lamon by Dmitry Lamonov.)
OpenAI released their long-promised open weight models today under clean Apache 2 licenses and with benchmarks that put them shockingly close to o3-mini and o4-mini
I've run the smaller (20B) model on my Mac and it's very impressive, despite only using ~15GB of RAM https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/
Cloudflare has called out Perplexity for using various deceptive tactics to ignore robots.txt directives to not crawl a website for AI purposes. They tested and confirmed with brand new domains that it does not honor publisher’s request.
In the words of Jeff Lebowski, when it comes to robots.txt, Perplexity is like “Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”
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