I think it’s correct for Apple to leave this in control of users, not developers. But Apple really does need to make it more clear what is an AI-generated summary and what is a verbatim original notification.
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My thanks to Listen Later for sponsoring last week at DF. Listen Later is a super simple, super useful service that turns articles into podcast episodes. When you sign up, you get a custom email address to send articles to; every article you forward to your Listen Later addr...
The great thing about using a sytem like MySQL (or any SQL for that matter) is that it's been around for so long that if you can think of something that would be nice to have, you can be sure it's there somewhere. They've had enough time not only to hit all the walls, but to...
How I'd write books with WordLand. Just thinking out loud here. Working with a group of people. It's possible it's just the author and editor, or it could be a larger documentation job, or a report covering a lot of ground. In 2025 we'd use AI to find the threads in our writ...
Jamison Foser on the Obsequiousness of The Washington Post Spiking Ann Telnaes’s Cartoon
findinggravity.net/p/no-jeff-bezos-is-not-obeying-in-advance
Jamison Foser:
Washington Post opinion editor David Shipley offered the kind of
obviously-false explanation you only utter when you know admitting
the truth will make you look even worse:
David Shipley, The Post’s opinions editor, said in a statement
that he respecte...
Charlie Sykes on the Stupidity of The Washington Post Spiking Ann Telnaes’s Cartoon
Charlie Sykes:
To fully absorb the profound stupidity of the Wapo’s decision, consider the alternative timeline in which the paper published Telnaes’s sketch. If the Wapo had published it, both the paper and Bezos would have looked… better. The paper would have reasserted a modicum of independence and integrity; and even Bezos would have benefited.
Instead of looking like a thin-skinned, craven autocrat, he would have looked like someone big enough to tolerate criticism.
And as Sykes’s post points out right at the start, the Streisand Effect is fully in play here. Telnaes’s draft of the cartoon is now the most celebrated and re-posted political cartoon in recent memory.
Update: I did finally get Bluesky images working again.
BTW, in defense of Matt Mullenweg and the culture of the developer community he built over the last 20 years, for better or worse, they don't do what Bluesky did. They look for prior art and implement it and they don't deprecate, btw. They're still running the APIs we invent...
The crazy thing about Bluesky's API is they took already standardized things like links and enclosures, and after 20+ years came up with new definitions. Makes our apps more expensive to maintain, and we waste time and human wear and tear on stupid bullshit make-work. Develo...
Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Ann Telnaes Quits the Washington Post After Editors Nix Cartoon Mocking Bezos (and His Tech/Media Mogul Cohorts) for Paying Fealty to Trump
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
Ann Telnaes, from her personal site on Substack (alas):
I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial
cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive
conversations — and some differences — about cartoons I have
submitted for publication, but in ...
BTW, as promised, last night's Knicks game was great. Up until the end, when the other guys took over and sadly the Knicks lost. We need a stronger bench. The starting five are great but they're not totally super-human.
Just taking it easy. Thinking about stuff. Will resume blogging soon. 😄
The Great American Tradition
politico.com/news/2021/01/09/biden-inaugural-donors-major-corporations-456907
Kelly Hooper, reporting for Politico on 9 January 2021:
The Biden Inaugural Committee on Saturday released its list of
donors, which included Google, Microsoft, Boeing and several other
major corporations. The list contains all contributors who
donated more than $200 to ...
Gambling, sports, kids
Krugman writes about social media is poisoning children's minds.
I like that Krugman has resumed his blogging.
This means that sometimes I agree or disagree, or have mixed opinions, but I always learn something. That's what makes a blogger good imho.
I don't know if I agre...
Knicks on Friday night: A big offline day here in the mountains, the show will resume tomorrow bright and early, Murphy-willing. Enjoy tonight's Knicks game in OKC. Should be a great game. 😄
‘Don’t You Think We Should Maybe Ask for More Than a Million Dollars? A Million Dollars Isn’t Exactly a Lot of Money These Days.’
Axios: Tim Cook Donates $1 Million to Trump Inauguration
axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration
Axios co-founder Mike Allen:
Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to
President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, sources with
knowledge of the donation tell Axios. [...]
Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a
great American traditi...
The Intricacy of ASML’s Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machines
Fascinating piece by Ben Cohen for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link):
And there are two things I learned about the EUV tool I saw that I
can’t get out of my head:
ASML teamed up with a German optical company to develop mirrors
so flat that if they were scaled up to ...
Simon Willisons’s Approach to Running a Link Blog
Speaking of Simon Willison, I greatly enjoyed this post from last week, with some of the self-imposed principles he follows writing his excellent eponymous blog. Amongst them:
I always include the names of the people who created the
content I am linking to, if I can fig...
‘Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024’
Simon Willison:
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over
the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about
the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at
identifying key themes and pivotal moments. [...]
I think telling peo...