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This is the world I grew up in. But just a few years later, my elementary-school classroom was integrated. A few years after that, my high school was thoroughly integrated, and though there were still racial tensions, blacks and whites could openly be friends. Then came the white flight from Birmingham: the city’s public schools are now 99% black. Dark forces that seem invincible aren’t; but no victories are permanent either.
Opus 4.6 is much smarter than the other one. It feels like I'm working with someone from Bronx Science. I had been using Sonnet 4.6, which I switched to after reading somewhere that it costs less and it's usually every bit as good as newer models. I would never work with Son...
Someday you're going to tell your kids that we once used a social network that limited your writing to 500 characters and didn't allow styling, links or titles. What was it called Daddy? Bluesky. And people thought it was great. Why? They might have been taking drugs.
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Well duh — have you ever seen a more obvious handball?
A CONSTELLATION — a remarkable short film by Miriam Hitchcock.
Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s Claim Against Sam Altman in Unanimous Verdict
Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit
against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the
three-year statute of limitations.
Mr. Musk filed his suit against t...
‘John Appleseed’
Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik:
When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market
capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it
sits near $4 trillion. That is more than a 1,000 percent inc...
Define ‘Boom’ Please
While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link):
Even though it has largely missed out on the...
The Mind of Claude
I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do.
It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against r...
Ted Turner’s Small Apartment Above the Former CNN Center
Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life. (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)
Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future
A follow-up point on my “AI Is Technology, Not a Product” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”:
By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that people will swipe on
thei...
‘AI, “Humanity”, and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome’
Jim Prosser, back in February:
Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only
works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t
kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking
over the public meant the industry had built ...
The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center ‘UBI’ Payments
Wikipedia:
The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established
permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned
corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was
established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9, Section 15 of the
...
A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI:
In 2023, a team led by Ming Gao, now a researcher at Nanjing University, used human voices to defeat speech-recovery algorithms in a different way. Its jammer, called MicFrozen, is worn by a speaker who doesn’t want to be recorded. It listens as they talk and then generates a real-time stream of ultrasonic “anti-speech” tuned to the speaker’s voice, much like the noise-cancellation technology in your headphones. The device then sends out another layer of counterfeit speech-shaped sound to mislead any algorithm that tries to reconstruct what was lost.
Note that the “answer” to digital technologies we hate is always MOAR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES. For previous entries on this point, see this and this.
2024-era ChatGPT pictures, of which I created many are now like Comic Sans type was in 2010 or so, if you remember.
AI Data Centers Are Deeply Unpopular, Across the Political Spectrum
news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup:
Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for
artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly
half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these
projects, with 7% strongly in favor. [...]
The data cente...