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A wonderful post from Federico Viticci about WWDC this year.

Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley introduced an updated version of their bill today that attempts to control the anti-competitive behavior of large platforms. I asked Codex to download previous versions of the bill so I could understand the changes in the latest version. Here...

For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the US electricity mix in May 2026. “Solar supplied a record 12.8% of US electricity, while coal fell to 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever.”

Three Amazon data centers are still under construction, but local residents are already paying at least $10.60 extra per month for them, according to a new study.

Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.

If OG Anunoby's miraculous put-back of Jalen Brunson's long three is the Hand of God, maybe the play before it was the Brain of Squirrel. It was Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox, currently finishing up his ninth year in the NBA, who made a pre-rookie mistake that allowed the Knicks ...

The World Cup is great for surfacing fun facts. Here's one that might shock your ears as you watch Bosnia-Herzegovina play its first group-stage game on Friday: The team's coach, Sergej Barbarez, is 54 years old and working his first job as a manager. Also, he was most recen...

It's almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we'll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here.

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Nobody fell in love with France this year, for the same reason nobody fell in love with France in 2022 or 2018. Under Didier Deschamps, the football manager most likely to make you think of Jerry Sloan, the French are deep in flair but play as though every goal they surrender results in the death of a puppy. Deschamps is best described as an "arch-pragmatist," which is the polite way of saying, "He doesn't celebrate his own birthday so don't expect him to celebrate yours."

Consider the perspective of the soccer goalkeeper. Turn the game 90 degrees from how you watch it at home, and observe as the best part of it—your team attacking in the final third—recedes away from you. The players are small, the action muddled. Should your team score, you ...

AI beats us at coding.  But it’s also better and faster at nearly everything else: planning, QA, working with all

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Async agents are only useful if you can trust what they hand back. In a distributed system, that trust comes

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It’s no secret that generative AI has shifted the operations and business models of companies in nearly every sector. But

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Released a few days ago, this is the official video for Max Cooper’s Becoming, directed by Brandon Eversole. It’s mesmerizing, trippy, and a little bit glitchy. The video is also notable for being so wide that it breaks YouTube’s desktop layout — anything less than stretching my browser window to the edges of my screen and I can’t read the left-most text under the video.

Tags: Brandon Eversole · Max Cooper · mesmerizing · music · video

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.