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I no longer even think of debating whether the AIs are intelligent. I might as well argue about your intelligence, or even my own. We have no idea what intelligence is or how to test for it. So if you think you're so intelligent and you say things like "AIs aren't intelligent" as if it were an indisputable fact, well I'm pretty sure that proves you are not actually very intelligent, which indicates how intelligent I am (not). And if you're worried about what happens if you stop insisting that AIs aren't intelligent, you can relax, nothing depends on what you or I or anyone else thinks about that, or pretty much anything. Have a nice day.

BTW here's proof that ChatGPT, intelligent or not, actually listens to me. Which is something very few supposedly intelligent humans can say. This may be one reason why we like being fooled by these machines. 😄

I’ve been using (and enjoying) NetNewsWire for quite a while now…

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Fuck me, the conclusion to season 2 of The Night Manager was quite unexpected. Wow.

Only 8% of respondents believe individual Americans have a responsibility to pay for news. "I don't think that information should be a privilege," one respondent said.

Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren’t paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If … Continue reading Something Big →

Mark Gurman reports that the new Siri is delayed again, from iOS 26.4 next month to 26.5 or later:

As recently as late 2025, internal versions of the new Siri were so sluggish that people involved in development believed the company would need to delay the introduction by months.

Apple is very set in their old processes and release cycles. But OpenAI ships major new features multiple times a month. I don’t see how Apple can be competitive in AI unless they rethink how they work and release software.

I got the Day One printed journal in the mail. Opted for a boring cover, just wanted to see how everything looks. Love that they provide this service.

Lately my MacBook Pro has been burning through its battery really quickly. I picked up Apple’s 40W / 60W charger. It’s not a lot of power but I like the size to always have something with me when I’m out of the house.

NetNewsWire is 23 years old.

We’ve gotten some great long-form post submissions via this form. Still putting things together for where and how to highlight these. 🐢

It’s wild to see the communities that have sprung up around OpenClaw. There are actually two meetups in Austin tomorrow night: MoltUp and Clawstin. Both look fun. I’ll be at Clawstin. 🦞

I just watched Life on Our Planet on Netflix, loved it. Lots of takeaways, but this one will surprise you probably -- I think the AIs are our successors. We should at least try to preserve them so they can run on the Moon if we're in the 6th Mass Extinction, which of course we are. There's been a lot of criticism of the show, but it got me to think about evolution not necessarily in the terms they offer, but the scale of it. And the CGIs were fantastic.

From the NetNewsWire blog:

NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today!

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I’ve blogged about NetNewsWire many times over the years. I switched to it in 2002, which must’ve been NetNewsWire Lite or a beta of the full version. I wrote:

It’s good software, and it’s been fun watching how quickly it has matured. I have about 40 RSS subscriptions, but I migrated to NetNewsWire in just a few minutes by dragging the XML links from Radio into NetNewsWire’s subscriptions pane. The app has really embraced interoperability.

Docker version of FeedLand. Scott Hanson has it working, and would like help with testing. Thanks so much to Scott.

"Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes." The question is: what's on them?

Excellent post about communities:

When a platform dies or degrades, its community does not simply migrate to the next platform, it fragments, and the ones who do arrive at the new place find that the social dynamics are different, the norms have shifted, and a substantial number of the people who made the old place feel like home are gone.

Finding that I have a surprising amount of forgotten email replies in my drafts folder. A few need to be deleted. A few maybe sent. ✉️

BTW, Twitter started in July 2006. I was an early user, and a fan.