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Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired (News+ link, in case Wired’s paywall blocks you): Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appears to not only...

Maybe “next year” meant “next next year”?

(They’re still accepting $100 deposits for pre-orders.)

Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.

My photography road trip across the country comes to an end. In this last episode, I let the AI plot the route back home. I asked it to highlight some lesser-know spots along the way that I could photograph, and the results were... interesting.

Iowa, November 2025.

From the video I let AI plan my 2,200-mile photography road trip across the country.

When there's breaking news these days I check Fox News in addition to CNN, MSNOW, BBC, PBS. The best are the last two. But last night night when everyone was fixated on the story of Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was killed in cold blood, on video, by a masked ICE thug, I ...

The Pacific Ocean listened to my King Tides feedback. Today I saw lots of foamy white waves and the swell height was 12 ft. (video + photo) Also: big winds, sun, and hail. I wondered if I should be wearing a helmet. Welcome to Oregon coast.

This 2021 post from Jason Fried is a good chaser to his “The Big Regression” this week (which I linked to yesterday): Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which ...

Another incredible use-case for ChatGPT. When it first came out Font Awesome was a total godsend. It took something every developer of graphic apps had to struggle with, and said basically "I can do that." They had a growing set of standard icons. It got better and better wi...

California, November 2025.

Juli Clover: Language learning app Duolingo has apparently been using the iPhone’s Live Activity feature to display ads on the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island, which violates Apple’s design guidelines. According to multiple reports on Reddit, the Duolingo app has been displaying an ad for a “Super offer,” which is Duolingo’s paid subscription option. […]

Tim Hardwick (Slashdot, Hacker News): Logitech users on macOS found themselves locked out of their mouse customizations yesterday after the company let a security certificate expire, breaking both its Logi Options+ and G HUB configuration apps. Logitech devices like its MX Master series mice and MX Keys keyboards stopped working properly as a result of […]

Claudio Wunder (Hacker News): Any Engineer at @1Password here? Your Chrome Extension seems to recently started breaking HTML from certain pages. For example, the Node.js website code snippets break when 1Password Extension is enabled. Evan You: 1Password browser extension is injecting Prism.js globally on every page, which then applies its syntax highlighting logic on all […]

Remember when OG metadata was new? That was a long time ago. It's one of those things that's widely forgotten, but still widely in use.

The way twitter-like services deal with OG metadata could use a re-think.

Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief doesn’t often respond to critics. When I wrote that his year-end memo cast Instagram as a future referee of reality, he pushed back on Threads. He called it an overstatement and then laid out the need for “credibility signals,” tools to prove content authenticity, and industry-wide verification. That isn’t a rebuttal; it’s reframing. Instagram may not want the label “arbiter of reality,” but it seems content to take on the role. In an earlier essay, …

Howard Oakley, writing at The Eclectic Light Company macOS Tahoe’s visual interface: Fits largely rectangular contents into windows with excessively rounded corners. Enlarges controls without any functional benefit. Results in app icons being more uniform, thus less di...

Problem with ChatGPT is that it thinks you always want to know everything about all the options, no matter how convoluted they are, based on incorrect assumptions about what you're doing. You ask a simple question with a simple answer and they write you a four page briefing on everything. At least they do seem to give you the correct answer up front. They ought to work on making these things manageable, and btw for these reasons I believe they must write the most shitty code when they're left to write the whole thing. If they have a different better mode, please let me talk to that one! :-)

Jim Nielsen: It’s extra noise to me. It’s not that I think menu items should never have icons. I think they can be incredibly useful (more on that below). It’s more that I don’t like the idea of “give each menu item an icon” being the default approach. This posture lend...

Jason Fried: My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby. It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. You know, the ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and...