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Here’s a fun screenshot from Mastodon. Micro.blog posts that are federated to Mastodon look better than posts actually created from Mastodon. Markdown → your blog → everywhere.

I’m expanding Micro.blog’s support for Standard.site to include the content field too. It looks like this now:

"content": {
  "$type": "blog.micro.content",
  "markdown": "Hello _world_...",
  "html": "Hello <i>world</i>..."
}

Simple. I’ll publish an official lexicon later.

I did some testing with Standard.site this morning and posted a screenshot over in the help forums. Fascinating to see it in action. I signed into Leaflet and it knows about the long-form blog posts I created in Micro.blog.

AI, surveillance, open tech, and news as a business.

We need to see more technical collaborations between public service media organizations. It's also really important that they're based on open technology that doesn't lock them in.

Tempted to order another Iconfactory shirt. I have one from years ago, the simple logo. Love the dogcow too.

Newsrooms like to spend their time on the journalistic process and assume that the value of their work will speak for itself. They need to start selling themselves.

I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with Charlotte, New Orleans...

I asked ChatGPT for this. "If we had a talking head version of ChatGPT, a human-like image of a person that spoke Claude's words what would it look like?" Claude's words coming through ChatGPT's image. There was a typo, I typed Claude when I meant ChatGPT. So I asked it correctly, with ChatGPT both times. Except I forgot to ask for an image, and got the text behind the image which is generous and revealing. I would vote for a politician who was this honorable, generous and idealistic, a modern day John McCain. Claude speaking from Claude's head, described in words by ChatGPT. Final image, Claude head speaking for Claude AI as an image. Claude speaking for Claude as rendered by ChatGPT.

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How could I not pick up his avocado beauty at Acts Thrift for $17.36?! A day’s worth of cleaning ought to bring this bad boy up to snuff. I’m most shocked at the fantastic design of its case. This is a re-branded Messa typewriter manufactured in Portugal with other known re-badgings as the ABC 3001 … Continue reading

Going to Corfu. brb

Watched: House of the Dragon S3E2, Queen’s Landing. Whew. This series is one tragedy after another. 📺

A little bummed that OpenAI is retiring Pulse. It felt like magic. But also it must’ve been burning through tokens way beyond the benefit, and personally I went from reading it every day to only skimming it every couple days. Maybe ChatGPT scheduled tasks can be good enough.

Michael Tsai blogging about Apple’s private email relay:

The main problem I have with Hide My Email is that some customers use it and then have no way to look up their purchase info via e-mail because they don’t know which address they used.

Yep. Apple needs a simpler way to see all your email addresses, like a table of all the service names and each email address. No one knows how to dig into iOS Settings to find it. (Although on the iOS 27 beta it’s less buried than it used to be.)

Thursday session

More reporting today from the Financial Times that OpenAI suggested a 5% stake for the government:

Sam Altman, chief executive of the ChatGPT maker, has argued that giving the public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the upside of AI and has suggested a stake of this size in early conversations with the administration, according to two people familiar with the talks.

It’s a good idea, but Trump is so transactional that I don’t trust his administration to manage this. Congress should pass an actual law that sets up the fund.

From the FAQ for the laundry-folding robot, Isaac 1:

Isaac 1 is autonomous for Laundry Flow and Daily Reset by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee we complete tasks.

I get that companies want to ship something, but this isn’t like software that can be iterated on later. If it can’t work fully autonomously, private to the home, I don’t think it’s ready.

I re-read the bio on my about page while I was making tweaks to my blog. If someone doesn’t know who I am, this is still a pretty good summary of my work.