Server upgrade: We made it easier to set up a new instance of the rss.chat server. If you have subscribed to a feed, you should change the URL in your reader app, the new issue explains what changed.
Watching the news during breakfast… Major flooding in Texas again. Hope everyone’s safe.
From human hands. · Mass-Driver
This is beautifully written.
Today we’re at T+57 years from the launch of Apollo 11: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
Today we’re at T+57 years from the launch of Apollo 11:
♫ More Than This by Roxy Music
♫ More Than This by Roxy Music
Thinking back on yesterday and what was, football aside, a beautiful yet unexpected day. A reminder to embrace uncertainty in life and accept the wonderful things it can sometimes bestow. Maybe there’s nothing more than this.
This ad from Anthropic is so strange. I saw it a couple days ago and rewatched it just now. Starts with a burning house, ends almost hopeful. I can imagine what they were trying to go for, but in this edit it doesn’t land for me.
I couldn’t have predicted any aspect of today, and for that I’m weirdly grateful. Would have been nice to have seen England in a World Cup final, though.
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At The Web You Want event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the whole thing: Accessibility is resistance!
She makes the very good point that generative tools are a necessary accessibility recourse when humans have failed to ...
Remembering when England played Argentina 24 years ago and Channel 4 let the side down… https://adactio.com/journal/309
Remembering when England played Argentina 24 years ago and Channel 4 let the side down…
Codex Micro is a clever little hardware add-on with buttons and knobs. I’m not a clicky keyboard person, so this isn’t for me, especially at $230. Also I’m working at a coffee shop right now and can’t imagine taking this with me anywhere. But I bet they sell a bunch.
Wasn’t expecting this, but I guess it’s obvious now that I see it. Sarah Perez writing at TechCrunch about Apple Intelligence in China:
Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’s AI services in the country, on the back of a deal to integrate Alibaba’s Qwen AI model into Apple’s operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
If Qwen proves “good enough”, it also reduces Apple’s dependence on Google.
After working on something that not everyone will agree on, I love returning to something universally good: books! Here’s another view of the upcoming books calendar feature, with an agenda-style list that works well even for not many books. For your blog, you can choose this or the calendar view.
Dave Winer has deployed a separate RSS.chat instance that other people can join to play around with: demo.rss.chat.
A couple days ago, OpenAI removed the 5-hour usage limit. I think it was meant to be temporary, but I wonder if they’ll make it permanent. It’s one less thing to worry about. Lots of numbers in a UI introduce friction, making your brain think about things that don’t really matter.
OpenAI responds
Three separate posts dropped yesterday with OpenAI’s side of the story in the Apple lawsuit. First, a more complete official statement from OpenAI, reported by various outlets:
While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of any evidence that this complaint ha...
While all the new rss.chat business is going on, the WordPress news site that I started in May is growing at a nice clip. Referrers used to pinpoint where flows like this came from, but they stopped doing that at some point. If you have any clues as to who's pointing to it now, please let me know so I can thank them. And if you know of any sites that are not in the feed list, that do a good job of covering WordPress news, please let me know that too.
A lot more people have tried out rss.chat now that we have a demo site, and they are looking for stuff that isn't there. I wrote a longish post on X this morning explaining. If you want the gist, this is a bootstrap, and rss.chat is primarly a writing surface and a timeline f...
Thinking about Om Malik again. We only exchanged a handful of emails. I was able to interview him at Micro Camp, and I put an edited portion of it online here for my book, which I was skimming through today. It’s from 2023 but still feels relevant. Such a loss.
Demis Hassabis published a post — on X and LinkedIn — about needing a framework to steer AI development, with AGI possibly just a few years away:
Even if we solve these hard technical challenges, there will be further complex economic and philosophical questions to tackle: what sorts of new economic models will be needed to help everyone thrive in a post-scarcity world? What values do we want to live by, what will meaning and purpose be, and how might even the human condition itself change?