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CSA haul

The case for moving AI down the stack

Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE.

I know I said I’d stop blogging about AI for a while, because it has become so divisive, but this court ruling on fair use is too fascinating to ignore. From federal judge William Alsup: …the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly trans...

A federal court agreed that using copyrighted works to train AI is fair use - but that pirating them to do so infringes creator rights.

Stephen Hackett reminiscing on the Aqua introduction from 2000 and what we’ve lost without live demos:

This all makes me miss live keynotes. I know Apple likes the control it has over pre-recorded introductions, but its announcements deserve live demos, off-the-cuff remarks, and the humanity that was once more prevalent at things like WWDC or iPhone introductions.

Working on some more iOS improvements, currently waiting for Apple to review the beta. 🙄 Automated builds via Xcode Cloud are still working well. I mentioned on the special episode of Core Int (🤯) that builds are slow-ish. To be specific, took 16 minutes today. It’s fine.

We know a few new things about the OpenAI / Jony Ive partnership, because of leaks and the iyO lawsuit. I’m skeptical of a screen-free device that is not a wearable. Maybe someone should break away from the rectangle form factor. Square screen, a few inches on each side, very good voice interface.

This was a brief session but a good one.

Jeremy Herve is a developer at Automattic. Here's what he said about yesterday's podcast. He liked the idea of WordPress as the OS of the open social web. Glad that resonated. It has so much more than the other possible platforms. The others couldn't even realistically claim...

A great scene from The West Wing. Use your imagination, something similar is probably happening right now.

Monday session

Long day of meetings so here are the cats being silly

It’s late on Monday 23rd and I’m typing this weekly recap that I was supposed to write on a Sunday but it’s been a hectic day—today wasn’t much better, autostrade per l’italia loves me—and I was too tired to write it last night so I’m doing it now. Week three has been intere...

This is a silly and inconsequential thing to rant about, but… What is the point of crushed ice? It melts too quickly. I understand it for Sonic and Chick-fil-a, but not for a coffee shop. 🤪

Yesterday my kids asked why I was snapping a photo of a construction site where a restaurant used to be, and I had to think… I like taking pictures of things that will change.