Creation
Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to...
Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, DMT, and psychedelic compounds secreted by the Sonoran Desert toad.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
New Jersey, the Jackass State
By far the dumbest Internet Jackass Day “joke” I’ve seen so far is this one from the official New Jersey state account on Twitter/X, claiming that effective immediately, they’re lifting the statewide ban on self-service gasoline. For those of you who’ve never been there, I s...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Ryan D’Agostino Profiles Tim Cook for Esquire on Apple’s 50th
Ryan D’Agostino, writing at Esquire (News+ link, in case Esquire stiffs you with their paywall):
Cook was at Jobs’s house the day he died. As he drove back to the
office to announce it to the employees and, in so doing, to the
world, he felt a strange kind of shock — str...
On Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything
I was thankful to read Marcin Wichary’s review of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything. I first heard about the book months and months ago; it sounded potentially interesting but I was afraid it was going to suffer from a now-familiar myopia of the “tech” old guard. Wi...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Inside Apple’s AirPods Max 2 and the H2 Chip Upgrade
Jacob Krol, writing at TechRadar:
To understand exactly what that means five years on, TechRadar sat
down with Apple VP of Platform Architecture Tim Millet and
Director of Audio Product Marketing Eric Treski to unpack how
AirPods Max 2 is finally catching up to its own a...
Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note...
Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note today’s date), but this is supposedly a fully functional compass that only points to the Olive Garden in Times Square.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Hershey Says It Will Shift Back to Classic Recipe for All Reese’s Products After Criticism
The AP:
Hershey said Wednesday it will use classic recipes for all Reese’s products starting next year, a change that comes after the grandson of Reese’s founder criticized the company for shifting to cheaper ingredients.
Running to the press never works.
(Stick to Trader Joe’s, I say.)
Link: apnews.com/article/hershey-reeses-chocolate-peanut-butter…
The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645 ....
The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645. “In Oxford, ‘runners’ would go from coffee house to coffee house, picking up all the best news and delivering it back to customers, said Garner. You’re talking human wi-fi.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Marks 50th Anniversary
The Apple.com homepage has a nice little animation showing sketches of the company’s most iconic products. The video file itself is hosted here, but I’m not sure how permanent that link is.
Tim Cook posted a different video on Twitter/X, a VHS-style “rewind” through Apple p...
Why we are changing names
After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new...
After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new YouTube series: “I took a road trip through every county in England, and filmed something interesting in each of them.”
“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone”
Tech investor and billionaire Marc Andreessen has many bad opinions (as evidenced by his investment portfolio). On a recent podcast, he shared a real boner: that he isn’t introspective, that people 400 years ago weren’t at all introspective, and that introspection was a cons...
Bluey Phone Review
It's called the Bluey phone by VTech. It really commits to the idea of a minimal phone.
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685: The Ability to Be Hotter
Pre-show:
Happy independence day, John!
The Great Saunter
Pedometer++
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
More about the flag
Follow-up:
Overcast transcripts
Missed Apex
MacBook Neo
...
datasette-extract 0.3a0
Release: datasette-extract 0.3a0
- This plugin now uses datasette-llm to configure and manage models. This means it's possible to specify which models should be made available for enrichments, using the new
enrichmentspurpose.
datasette-enrichments-llm 0.2a0
Release: datasette-enrichments-llm 0.2a0
- This plugin now uses datasette-llm to configure and manage models. This means it's possible to specify which models should be made available for enrichments, using the new
enrichmentspurpose.
datasette-llm-usage 0.2a0
Release: datasette-llm-usage 0.2a0
- Removed features relating to allowances and estimated pricing. These are now the domain of datasette-llm-accountant.
- Now depends on datasette-llm for model configuration. #3
- Full prompts and responses and tool calls can now be logged to the
llm_usage_prompt_logtable in the internal database if you set the newdatasette-llm-usage.log_promptsplugin configuration setting.- Redesigned the
/-/llm-usage-simple-promptpage, which now requires thellm-usage-simple-promptpermission.
datasette-llm 0.1a5
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a5
- The
llm_prompt_context()plugin hook wrapper mechanism now tracks prompts executed within a chain as well as one-off prompts, which means it can be used to track tool call loops. #5
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Was It All A Hoax?
Today, we are celebrating the spirit of April Fools’ Day with two stories about hoaxes. One is about a mythical creature in Fouke, Arkansas and the other about a giant sea serpent in a small town of New York.
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