FeedCity has been now been registered as a client for indielogin.com (thanks, Aaron!), and so now I can offer the option for people to login and sign-up using their own website URL via RelMeAuth/Web Sign-in: → FeedCity Sign-up ←.
Hey folks. I’m going off the grid for a few days. Call it a spiritual retreat of sorts. I’ll be back soon; be well in the meantime.
The image is of the Great Buddha and a group of adorably chapeaued schoolchildren at the Todai-ji Temple in Nara.
Tags: kottke.org
A Chinese naval officer who took part in D-Day wrote an 80-page diary of his time embedded with British forces. “Lam was part of a group of more than 20 Chinese naval officers sent during World War II for training in the U.K. by Chiang Kai-shek.”
OpenAI no longer has to preserve all of its ChatGPT data, with some exceptions
This is a relief:Federal judge Ona T. Wang filed a new order on October 9 that frees OpenAI of an obligation to "preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis."
I wrote about this in June. OpenAI were compelled by a court order to preserve all output, even from private chats, in case it became relevant to the ongoing New York Times lawsuit.
Here are those "some exception":
The judge in the case said that any chat logs already saved under the previous order would still be accessible and that OpenAI is required to hold on to any data related to ChatGPT accounts that have been flagged by the NYT.
Via Theo Browne
Tags: law, new-york-times, privacy, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms
A riff on catfishing, “chatfishing” is using an LLM to communicate with prospective dates on the apps. Ohhhh man, this is a cringe-read.
While working as a filmmaker as part of the Scott Expedition, Temujin Doran made a beautifully shot and edited short film about a small team of people who live and work on Antarctica’s Union Glacier during the summer.
For me, this film seems a bit like an antithesis to many expedition and adventure documentaries. There is no great achievement or record broken, nor any real challenge to overcome. Instead it concerns minor details; the everyday tasks of the staff that were made more special by the environment surrounding them. And in fact, I think that’s what attracted me to make this film - the delightful trivialities of an average life, working in Antarctica.
Wes Anderson-esque. (thx, joseph)
[This is a vintage post originally from Dec 2014.]
Tags: Antarctica · Temujin Doran · timeless posts · video
macrumors.com/2025/10/22/apple-vision-pro-now-made-in-vietnam/
MacRumors:
Apple’s upcoming wave of new smart home devices, including a smart home display, indoor security camera, and tabletop robot, will also be made in Vietnam, according to Bloomberg.
Link: macrumors.com/2025/10/22/apple-vision-pro-now-made-in…
theverge.com/transportation/804562/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-gas-cars-mary-barra
Nick Statt, The Verge:
GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra.
In a Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, published Wednesday, Barra confirmed GM will eventually end support of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on both gas-powered and electric cars. The timing is unclear, but Barra pointed to a major rollout of what the company is calling a new centralized computing platform, set to launch in 2028, that will involve eventually transitioning its entire lineup to a unified in-car experience.
Someone should investigate whether Mary Barra is a mole planted at GM by Ford. (Previously.)
Link: theverge.com/transportation/804562/gm-apple-carplay-android…
