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An idea for Gabe at Techmeme. Here's a screen shot of a story on Techmeme. I don't have time to click on each of the links, but a machine can. I would love to get a AI-generated summary of all the links, the range or reactions, or a consensus if one has emerged.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Experimenting with OpenAI’s new canvas feature. Pretty incredible what it can do. There are a lot of nice UI touches too to help show progress, like how it highlights and rewrites text.
Circles
Checked in at La Corde à Linge. Spätzle
♫ Is This Love? by Alison Moyet
Read an article in the Guardian only to have this ear worm firmly lodged.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process. Silver Lake and WP Engine’s attacks on me and Automattic, … Continue reading Automattic Alignment →
So far we've only created reading portals. What I want for myself and for you, is a writing portal.
The problem is the reading portals aren't open to allow this to work.
They all want you to write in their tiny little text boxes.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
A ChatGPT news network would be pretty interesting. You could register as an independent blogger, and push your writing up to their cloud in real time. And then readers could ask what experts on whatever think about what just happened and it would know what your expertise is, and it could build the report also in realtime, in response to a very detailed question you could ask. And you could tell it whether or not you want lies, or if they should omit the lies. Personally I would opt out of the lies, but some people like lies in their news, kind of like menthol in cigarettes. And forget about paying the news orgs. They don't give you a way to opt out of the lies.
So far we've only created reading portals. What I want for myself and for you, is a writing portal. Think about it.
Multiple confirmations from folks that the black screen crashes (reboots?) are an 18.1 beta problem. Without evidence, my gut says this is Apple Intelligence hitting the 8 GB RAM ceiling for local models. It again makes me question Apple not moving more AI to the cloud.
John Gruber on the news that Starlink will offer free service to Hurricane Helene disaster areas:
It’s hard to overstate how differently Elon Musk would be perceived if he weren’t a whackjob on political and cultural issues.
If Elon had never bought Twitter, never tweeted even, he’d still be considered a visionary leader comparable to Steve Jobs, maybe over time even greater. Instead he destroyed his reputation for nothing.
