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Software brain

This essay by Nilay Patel is getting a lot of attention. I’ve been saying for a while that there is going to be a serious rift in society over AI. That doesn’t mean that everyone hates it. Nearly a billion people use ChatGPT every week. Mac fans used to dream of the future t...

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Monday session

Monday session

Monday session

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Busy day working on new RSS-based project. Will return later today or tomorrow. Still diggin!

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Snapped this picture of a flock of birds yesterday. Didn’t turn out well — badly cropped, too many power lines — but in real life it was mesmerizing.

A flock of birds flies across a blue sky with scattered clouds, above trees and power lines.

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Not having much luck with the gatekeepers. I resubmitted our request for YouTube upload access for Micro.blog Studio… Denied again by Google. Micro.blog is just hard to demo for people who have no idea what it’s about.

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OpenAI weekend news

Ming-Chi Kuo in a tweet about potential OpenAI smartphone plans: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone processors, with Luxshare as the exclusive system co-design and manufacturing partner. Mass production is expected in 2028. Makes sense to be...

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All You Fascists (Bound to Lose)

A collection of Woody Guthrie covers

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• Joe Crawford

Detail from my painting “Galletas de Mar pero no comer AKA Pieces of Eight of Alta California” which is part of the group show which will open next week at @subterranean_northpark Subterranean Coffee / curated by Trixie @arthang_sandiego

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I just said this to Claude: "I want to show people that RSS isn't just for news. It can be for mindless social media rants too." ;-)

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When Bluesky is down, you can bookmark my news page on feedland.com for news from feeds I follow, in various categories. If you think there are feeds I should have, please send me an email.

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Frustrated with multiple rejections from Apple holding up Inkwell 1.0 for iOS, I’m switching gears to work on Epilogue. There are several little improvements that I can ship this week.

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Imagine you were putting up a skyscraper in Manhattan. I lived in an area of the city, called Billionaire's Row, for nine years where I saw quite a few huge buildings go up from my living room window on the 50th floor. Now imagine you used a different plumbing system in every apartment, over 140 stories, with up to 15 residences per story. Different wiring. All the rooms are different shapes. How could you maintain such a building? I think ChatGPT might be able to do it but no human could. We need patterns to allow us to understand big things.

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Teaching Claude about humans

What you don't hear about AI is that it doesn't know how human minds work, what our limits are, what we can do that they can't. It has no memory. This was hard to believe, but you have to tell it to keep things in some kind of memory, usually a Markdown file, then tell it to...

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What you don't hear about AI is that it doesn't know how human minds work, what our limits are, what we can do that they can't. It has no memory. This was hard to believe, but you have to tell it to keep things in some kind of memory, and then remember to tell it to read it. ...

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Bluesky is having trouble keeping their network running. As a developer I empathize. As a user, it's beginning to be a problem. I am using it the way I used to use Twitter, taking notes for future blog posts, sharing a few linkblog feeds, DMing with people I work with, and want/need to keep going. I know about its lock-in problems, but at this time there's no open alternative that has the same collection of users who are easy enough to find. So if it stays unreliable I have to think about what to do about that. Every time I get a 403 Forbidden, I stop and think if this is the time to write a post? This was the time.

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Watched: Crime 101. I liked this. Has a little bit of the same vibe as Heat, almost. The name doesn’t fit… Didn’t get what they were going for with the “101” until after watching it. 📺

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Knicks won in a blowout. As disturbing as Thursday's game was, today we are feeling no pain. Go Knicks! ;-)

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Sustaining innovation has failed us. It's time to think more radically

Some innovations create a new future that serves people better. Some sustain the status quo. It's time to think more radically.

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AI is not a magic wand and it wont fix your problems

Without investment in people, processes, and working conditions, AI becomes merely "a technological smoke screen for deeper institutional decline."

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The world is not a database

One of the most important pieces of AI commentary: "software brain" is important to understand if we want to get through this era with our humanity intact.