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Today, Rodrigo Ghedrin wrote the very well-intentioned, but incorrectly-titled,  “I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla”. As he correctly summarizes, sentiment on the Mozilla thread about a potential new AI pane in the Firefox browser is overwhelmingly negative. T...

Today, I published my first article in Zeteo, alongside the amazing journalist Prem Thakker: Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found. The latest Epstein dataset that the House Oversight Committee released is bonkers. It shows absolute elite impunity, and it implicates rich assholes like Donald

parakeet-mlx

Neat MLX project by Senstella bringing NVIDIA's Parakeet ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition, like Whisper) model to to Apple's MLX framework.

It's packaged as a Python CLI tool, so you can run it like this:

uvx parakeet-mlx default_tc.mp3

The first time I ran this it downloaded a 2.5GB model file.

Once that was fetched it took 53 seconds to transcribe a 65MB 1hr 1m 28s podcast episode (this one) and produced this default_tc.srt file with a timestamped transcript of the audio I fed into it. The quality appears to be very high.

Tags: python, ai, nvidia, uv, mlx, speech-to-text

Using AMD GPUs on Raspberry Pi without recompiling Linux Jeff Geerling November 14, 2025

I'm working on a more in-depth test of some newer AMD GPUs on the Raspberry Pi, now that the 15 line kernel patch is (IMO) nearly ready for upstreaming.

But this blog post shows how to quickly get almost any modern AMD GPU running on a Raspberry Pi 5, CM5, or Pi 500+, thanks to this patch on the Pi Linux fork.

Note: This patch actually enables AMD and Intel. I wrote about how to get Intel Arc GPUs running on the Pi yesterday.

GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum I was confused about whether the new "adaptive thinking" feature of GPT-5.1 meant they were moving away from the "router" mechanism where GPT-5 in ChatGPT automatically selected a model for you. This page addresses th...

Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers OpenAI announced GPT-5.1 yesterday, calling it A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT. Today they've added it to their API. We actually got four new models today: gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-chat-latest gpt-5.1-codex gpt-5.1-codex-mini There are a lo...

Troubleshooting notes.

Datasette 1.0a22

New Datasette 1.0 alpha, adding some small features we needed to properly integrate the new permissions system with Datasette Cloud:

• datasette serve --default-deny option for running Datasette configured to deny all permissions by default. (#2592)
• datasette.is_client() method for detecting if code is executing inside a datasette.client request. (#2594)

Plus a developer experience improvement for plugin authors:

• datasette.pm property can now be used to register and unregister plugins in tests. (#2595)

Tags: projects, datasette, datasette-cloud, annotated-release-notes

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Max Woolf provides an exceptional deep dive into Google's Nano Banana aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, still the best available image manipulation LLM tool three months after its initial release....

Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.

Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of trusted brands, blast out text message lures, and convert phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google.

On Monday, this Court entered an order requiring OpenAI to hand over to the New York Times and its co-plaintiffs 20 million ChatGPT user conversations [...] OpenAI is unaware of any court ordering wholesale production of personal information at this scale. This sets a dange...

Almost every time I share a new example of an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle a variant of this question pops up: how do you know the labs aren't training for your benchmark? The strongest argument is that they would get caught. If a model finally comes out that produces a...

All Intel GPUs run on Raspberry Pi and RISC-V Jeff Geerling November 13, 2025

We finally have Intel Arc GPUs working on the Pi somewhat stably—it required overcoming many small hurdles, but it looks like support could land in Raspberry Pi OS if we can get a simple patch upstreamed¹. If that happens, all you'd need to do to use an Intel card on a Pi is install a firmware package.

The cards I've spent the most time with so far are:

Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!

Today's links For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't to solve the hospice problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Inner-tube laces; NZ MPs ejected for talking about sexual assault; Snowden's opsec advice...

It’s alive! Last month, we published the brand new Pebble app to the iOS App Store and Android Play Store. It works with all Pebbles…

Valve does nothing and still wins