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I enjoyed this recent Q&A with Brandon Sanderson from London. But also, do I actually want the Mistborn movie? As much as I loved the Lord of the Rings movies, part of me wishes I had never seen them. Each viewing erases a bit of how I imagined the world and characters.

New top of page image. The official Knicks team picture as champs.

Satya Nadella writes on his blog for the first time in a while, about how companies will evolve with AI:

I believe human agency will be the driver of token capital growth. Humans will set ambitious goals, connect dots across domains, build relationships, and recognize patterns that matter most. Without human direction, you have compute running in circles.

Added a new movies feature that people have been asking for. When blogging about a movie or TV show from Micro.blog, it can now include a little movie poster on your blog post. There’s a preference under Movies → Settings on the web. Similar to what we have for books.

Here’s a screenshot.

Yesterday David Sacks had a long post on X with the administration’s side of the story on the Fable ban:

The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

He says it’s not because of previous disagreements with the Department of Defense. Maybe, but surely the mistrust between everyone does influence these decisions.

Pretty happy with how Micro.blog 3.7 turned out. In addition to the Liquid Glass update, the new post text editor has been completely rewritten, now matching the Markdown highlighting on the web. Lots of fixes throughout the app.

We’ve been enjoying Star City and also catching up on For All Mankind season 5. 📺

BTW the Gift Articles feed works really nicely in the blogroll.

Today's song: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City.

People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the NBA, but they didn't earn that this year. More probably it's the Knicks that are the future. The Knicks will keep growing. The Knicks beat the Spurs in the last two games by playing rope-a-dope, probably not intentionally, but it worked anyway. The Spurs, and Wemby especially, were completely zonked by the fourth quarter. The Knicks had a bench this year that let the starters get plenty of rest. The Spurs lost game four because they didn't have the good sense to rest Wemby while they were up by 20+ points. Anyway, the Knicks have a formula. Pick players with heart potential and talent, treat them like a team, keep trying out new ideas, approaches. It works. Won NY the championship this year. As anticipated I have no idea what to make of the Knicks as winner. I'll have to learn too. ;-)

One thing I want to know -- where do I tune in to get the most of Clyde talking about this series.

And thanks to the Knicks for being such a great team. Never ever in a million years did I imagine saying that.

I started collecting anonymous stats for our Mac app for the first time. We support old versions of macOS for a long time, but I wanted to know more about how much memory people have.

Results after less than a week: 43% with 16 GB or less, 57% with 24 GB or more. Pretty good! That surprised me.

I’m so emotionally invested in these Spurs games, probably too much, that after a win or loss I’m too wired to do anything except work, even though it’s almost midnight. So finishing some iOS work to submit to Apple. Also crunching some stats.

Crazy finals. Spurs have had so many leads, every game up 10, 15, more. And then it falls apart in the last couple minutes each time. Amazing season, though. 🏀

JY Stervinou proposed Universal Mentions, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTML file you want to use as your personal directory. It's an intriguing idea. ChatGPT review, after a short discussion between us. Both JY and ChatGPT use the term "open web" which to me has become a red flag. The web is open. No need to say it twice. There's no such thing as a web element that's not open. It's like saying wet water.

How to add Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar search directly in your browser, to search those sites with fewer steps, and less chance of being distracted.One of my hobbies is contributing to Wikipedia, and more so, creating new Wikipedia articles. Citations of rel...

300 racists came to Brighton today looking to cause trouble.

4000 Brightonians sent ’em packing.

With a ratio like that, all you fascists bound to lose.

I was expecting more drama from the Mythos shutdown. The Wall Street Journal reports that it started with a call from Amazon, but just generally Anthropic and the government are not on the same page:

The administration had long felt that Anthropic, one of the leaders in America’s AI race, couldn’t be trusted to manage the security risks its new model presented. Friday’s call between some administration officials and Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei reinforced that feeling, the people said.