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Looking forward to the Oscars tonight. Managed to see almost all the best picture nominations, and a handful more in other categories. I wonder if the Oscars being later than the Golden Globes, etc. means there are more surprises because it would be “boring” for the same films to win again.

RE: https://frogs.lgbt/@alyx/116232623564098477

Anyone in #BelieveInFilm interested?

It is difficult to be a conscientious viewer of Formula 1, a sport which occurs in discrete windows, not all that frequently, and on tracks with their own variable characteristics that can skew results any which way. To be specific, any possible conclusion to be made off the...

Why do media and marketing companies keep falling for the delusion that replacing creative people with AI results in something better?

Why do media and marketing companies keep falling for the delusion that replacing creative people with AI results in something better?

Resume.org, summarizing their survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers:

59% admit they emphasize AI when explaining hiring freezes or layoffs because it plays better with stakeholders than citing financial constraints.

Reminds me of the “Not Me” ghost in Bil Keane’s The Family Circus comic strip.

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner — a digital take on traditional paper planners — that (with permission) pulls...

The World Baseball Classic plays it fast and loose with nationality, even by the standards of ordinary sporting events. Despite the urge to romanticize each element of baseball, this works out to be a broadly neutral-value statement. Lineage, the possibility of citizenship, ...

Horace Dediu, under the headline “The Most Brilliant Move in Corporate History?”: Apple used to be the biggest capex spender, mainly because it paid for most of the property plant and equipment in the factories that made its phones and computers. [...] But that all chan...

We talk a lot about vibe coding. And to be honest, I’d heard the term far too many times before

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They've been having intelligent and clear-thinking guests on CNN and MSNOW on the coverage of the Iran War, unusually good discourse. But the best coverage I've heard has been from Frontiline podcasts. There's a new one out, haven't listened to it yet, but the one I heard yesterday was very informative and probably a better briefing than our president has been getting (or paying attention to).

Katie Paul, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting for Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs ​that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastruct...

Sam Henri Gold:

Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one. That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever is available and pressing on it until it either breaks or reveals something. The machine’s limits become a map of the territory. You learn what computing actually costs by paying too much of it on hardware that can barely afford it.

I know this because I was running Final Cut Pro X on a 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB RAM and 120GB of spinning rust. I was nine. I had no business doing this. I did it every day after school until my parents made me go to bed.

What a lovely essay. The best piece anyone has written about the MacBook Neo — because it’s not really about the MacBook Neo.

It has been on my todo list for years but I have finally gotten around to implementing dark mode in the default theme for the static site generator that runs...

AI coding assistants might have made it easier to generate software, but getting that code to run reliably — packaging

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How did we get here? How do we get out? Take a dive into the archive!

Platform teams and AI engineers are facing an unprecedented wave of decision paralysis. The rollout of NVIDIA’s Blackwell and GB200

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Brompton's latest folding electric bicycle is beautiful, genuinely portable, and doesn't quite go fast enough.

Our favorite red light therapy device for hair growth just dropped in price. Grab it while it lasts.

iGarden's new pool-cleaning robot pairs sporty design with a long runtime, though there are a few quirks.