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I wonder when ChatGPT or Claude.ai will compete with Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia is great but it has always had a weakness in that it can be manipulated to tell a story from a very limited point of view. For example the RSS page has a long section explaining the benefits of Atom. What I like about the AI versions of the basic history of things is that it isn't so easily manipulated. I talked about this with Claude, and asked it to write up a proposal for ClaudeWiki, a Wikipedia workalike, not too expensive to run, make it part of a user's $20 per month subscription. I think it would be useful, if only as a demo how Wikipedia itself might improve its service.

A search for WordPress on this blog tells an interesting story.

If I were designing a social network, I would implement replies differently. When you reply to a post, only the person who wrote the post sees it. If they want they can RT it. The way it works now on all twitter-like systems means most of the replies are basically spam, people using your post as a way to reach people who follow you.

BTW, when you post something on Bluesky it's just a tweet. These things don't need different names on each platform.

It's time for new thinking. A reply to a tweet on Bluesky about the real purpose of MAGA -- it's to make rich white men richer. She said that to me. All I'm all three of those things. And that's really close to what people say about Jews, btw. In a few months that's what they'll be saying. All the pain and suffering is to make Jews wealthier. They're setting that up. Anyway, I looked at my retirement account the other day and it sure didn't look like I'm getting richer. Just sayin.

I like people who stand up and speak the truth. This is one of the silver linings of this crisis. There's no real advantage at this point in trying to play it safe, to not be noticed. So I like what Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut has been saying.

I used to tell friends you can't go wrong buying the S&P 500. The president is rated by now the stock market does, and so over the long haul you can expect steady growth from the S&P 500, and it keeps things really simple. Well, have to say -- that's no longer good advice. Maybe real estate? Outside the United States? I don't know. It depends on what the people of this country do, and if our representatives are listening.

MAGA's goal, it turns out, was the Great Depression.

And btw the it could be worse. 💥

Terrific photos and summary coverage from The Guardian. Additional coverage from The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN. Update: The Atlantic has a great collection of photos from dozens of cities. There’s something so bizarrely asymmetrical about Trump’s political su...

Joanna Stern, Adrienne Tong, and Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+): Take a look at this iPhone 16 Pro. Your cost, for the 256GB version, is $1,100. The cost of all the hardware inside — aka the bill of materials — was about $550 to Apple when the...

Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: In his piece, Gruber particularly calls out the trashcan Mac Pro sticking at $2999 throughout its existence, but I think an even more striking example is the iMac. Introduced in 1998 at a base price of $1299, today’s infinitely more powe...

Barbara Moens and Henry Foy, reporting from Brussels for the Financial Times last Friday, March 28: The EU is set to impose minimal fines on Apple and Facebook owner Meta next week under its Digital Markets Act, as Brussels seeks to avoid escalating tensions with US Pres...

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, yesterday:

Thanks to Microsoft for 50 years of being awesome to developers! Some years the software was great. Some years the software sucked. Every year the company and its ecosystem has stood with and supported developers.

I pity the man who doesn’t have enough fingers to count the number of game stores available on Xbox.

I have a Canadian partner on the radiofreeameri.ca project, a founder of Tucows, who I've known for decades, Ross Rader. We've done work together in the past, it's great to be doing it again.

Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Microsoft held a special 50th anniversary event at its headquarters earlier today. During Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s presentation, a Microsoft employee interrupted the event to protest the use of Microsoft’s technologies in I...

On the path we're on, no doubt Bluesky will come under the same kind of regulation law firms and universities are. And the shame of it is we could be using this time to spread out, distribute.

I finally looked at my nest egg and was shocked to see the new number. Even worse that the dollars in the account will buy even less as US currency loses its value as the flight to safety currency. It's not a big surprise as the US behaves like a drunk Dunning-Kruger schooly...

I finally looked at my nest egg and was shocked to see the new number. Even worse that the dollars in the account will buy even less as the US currency loses its value as the "flight to safety" currency. It's not a big surprise as the US behaves like a drunk Dunning-Kruger sc...

I asked ChatGPT to draw a portrait of the current US president in the style of Diego Rivera. US president in style of Diego Rivera. Diego Rivera clown.