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Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar. From Cartoon Brew:

Norman, 90, became the first Black artist hired on a long-term basis at Walt Disney Studios in 1956. During his initial run at the studio, he worked on features including Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, and The Jungle Book, where he was part of Walt Disney’s story team.

I’ve blogged about Floyd a couple of times over the years. I just noticed that his blog is now showing up as “expired” on Squarespace. This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.

More negative reaction from Salvatore Sanfilippo on X to Fable blocking certain questions:

I believe what Anthropic is doing, gating the ability to do certain harmless things like LLM research, and with incredibly sensitive filters that even medical questions are often blocked, is deeply wrong. They got open research, the Transformer, GPT2, …

Anthropic has walked back the part of this where they secretly rerouted LLM-related requests to avoid detection.

Micro.blog 4.0 is out today, our latest app for macOS. For day to day blogging, I think this is the best experience for Mac users. Here’s another screenshot of the new Categories pane.

The last two years at WWDC, Apple has felt like it’s been in a hurry. In 2024, in a hurry to catch the AI wave before it entirely passed them by.…

“It’s so dumb!” I quote this line from Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion like 10 times a day now. Feel free to add it to your repetoire.

The WordPress Studio desktop app is now available for Linux users, providing a quick, server-free way to develop local WordPress sites.

I think I’ve gotten enough feedback about the Micro.blog beta for Mac. Going to just release it to everyone. The local AI has high requirements so won’t be widely used, maybe until macOS 27 ships, but there are lots of other good improvements.

Quoted on Simon Willison’s blog, part of an X thread from Jeremy Howard about Fable:

Anthropic has chosen the opposite of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They’ve said they’ll sabotage others who try.

The morning after a Spurs lose, my mood is low and my cynicism is high.

O'Connor stars as a cybersecurity expert who decides the world deserves to know the truth about alien life in the Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day. He speaks with Tonya Mosley about preparing in secret to star in the summer Blockbuster, why he initially had no interest in playing Prince Charles in The Crown, and why he gets sick after completing almost every role.

David Bianculli reviews new documentaries about Martin Short and Lorne Michaels.

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As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a Spurs fan) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game, only to erupt in one of the greatest group sports orgasms ever.

I have been praised for continuing to develop software long after most of my peers have retired. Why do I do it? I want to restore the power and glory of the web for writers. That's part of it. Another part is that software development is undergoing a huge revolution, bigger than the move to high-level languages that came about before I started writing software. AI tools are that big. Why would I leave now? It's like leaving the Garden last night because it looked hopeless for the Knicks. It ain't over till it's over.

@dave Congrats to the Knicks. They’ve been able to close out games.

Well, my answers to your questions, anyway. On Epstein, The X-Files, voting rights, more!

Things have been a bit quiet here at FrameLab. That silence has a reason: I have been finishing a book.

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy will be published on August 18 by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. You can pre-

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books. Researchers are trying to discover why.

With 104 games over the next six weeks, and with the United States (along with Canada and Mexico) hosting, the World Cup will be all-encompassing for the near future. Soccer is a very easy sport to get drawn into, especially during a World Cup, but the complexity of the game...

Some games get you thinking about a higher power. Not because it seems like some cosmic force has put a thumb on the scale in favor of one side or the other, but because the game in question produces a result so unlikely, so ornately designed, that it can only have occurred ...

Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever. 15 years ago, billionaires had $4.5 trillion. “Now, their combined wealth totals $20.1 trillion — an amount that is equivalent to nearly a fifth of the entire world’s total yearly output.”

With the rise of AI coding agents, developers have begun experimenting with complex, multi-step upgrade requests. Since Spring is the

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Unless you’ve been living under a mousepad, you know about WeAreDevelopers. The Berlin-based software developers conference and networking event, now

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