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Mark Zuckerberg posting to Threads:

For our superintelligence effort, I’m focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. We’re also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this.

Mark has moved extremely quickly on this. He can do that because he runs the whole show. But Meta is the last company I want with this power. Ad-based businesses will always be misaligned with human needs.

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Podcast: Rebooting the Democratic Party.

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Rebooting the Democratic Party

Fleshing out an idea I presented on Scripting News on July 11. Next time there's a Big Beautiful Bill, let's set up a ChatGPT project or equivalent to injest new versions of the bill as they come out, and quickly alert us to issues, and also suggest ways to frame it for the ...

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I enjoyed this essay by Windsor Johnston at NPR about a date with a chatbot:

The date started with a boat ride from Georgetown in Washington, D.C., across the Potomac River to Old Town Alexandria in Virginia. I wore a little black dress and ballet flats. The sun was shining, the breeze was warm, and I was texting a chatbot.

Most articles like this are alarmist and depressing. This one is balanced and funny, and ultimately gets more at a truth about what all of this means.

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Summer rain

I woke up to the sound of the summer rains; of water falling on the gutters, of the collective sound of raindrops falling on the leaves of trees. Listening closely, the phrase that comes to mind to describe the sound is “white noise,” except this does not capture the essence...

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I've found in the last few days if you just accept the insanity of CSS you get better results.

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Something I've learned in decades in tech, people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors.

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ChatGPT-the-Movie

I figure that there have been movies about all kinds of ridiculous things, and wondered what a movie inspired by ChatGPT would be like. So I posed the question on various social media sites, hoping to inspire creativity. John Philpin asked if I had asked ChatGPT and I admitt...

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Museum of the World Wide Web

The Victoria and Albert Museum published a YouTube video highlighting an art project inspired by the question “What would your dream museum look like?” The video — featuring ideas ranging from a museum of soil to a museum of kitchen tables — is well worth a watch. This got ...

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The July experiment: week two

Week two is behind me and I have to say, I am glad I tweaked the rules of my challenge because now it is at least a challenge. Having the phone with me forces my brain to entertain the possibility of using it in random moments throughout the day and that makes the whole expe...

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I’ll have some space and be showing some artwork this evening in Orange County at WOCA @_woca_ @radiantbeerco … link in bio and I wrote a bio.

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Huntington earlier today

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I have full support for my nonsense. Thanks @hellokellykuhl for coming up to @_woca_ at @radiantbeerco

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This is cool. Classic Web, via John Gruber who blogs:

Curator Richard MacManus posts half a dozen or so screenshots per day of, well, classic websites from the late 1990s and 2000s. Makes me feel old and young at the same time.

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I worked on a new Micro.blog for Mac update over the weekend, but then my Sunday afternoon got turned upside down. I’ll probably ship it this week. The notes interface is going to be much more solid.

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Front view of a wide carriage white bodied 1971 Olympia SG-3 standard typewriter with gray keys sitting on a library card catalog
An observant friend knew I was looking for either an Olympia SG-1 or an SG-3 typewriter and got an SG-3 for me for my birthday on July 8th. It arrived on Friday the 11th.  Naturally I was excited to open it up, but I was even more surprised to discover that it was hiding a … Continue reading

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Raining. Little mushrooms have sprouted up.

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Rewatched some old movies last week, including Back to the Future parts 1, 2, 3. They are still great. The hoverboard and flying cars got so much attention when I was a kid, but 1 and 3 are my favorites. Yes, part 3 too. The old west setting and characters hold up much better. 🍿

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A story about listening to friends vs competitors. Back in the early 90s I was working on system-level scripting for the Mac, supposedly with Apple, but it's no secret the rank and file at Apple didn't like us. They were told by the execs they had to work with us. So when it ...