I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with Charlotte, New Orleans...
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Meet Claude's face
I asked ChatGPT for this. "If we had a talking head version of ChatGPT, a human-like image of a person that spoke Claude's words what would it look like?"
Claude's words coming through ChatGPT's image.
There was a typo, I typed Claude when I meant ChatGPT. So I asked it correctly, with ChatGPT both times. Except I forgot to ask for an image, and got the text behind the image which is generous and revealing. I would vote for a politician who was this honorable, generous and idealistic, a modern day John McCain.
Claude speaking from Claude's head, described in words by ChatGPT.
Final image, Claude head speaking for Claude AI as an image.
Claude speaking for Claude as rendered by ChatGPT.
To the tune of “Gilligan’s Island”:
Now sit right down and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a rampant seal
Who’s damaging this coastal town
A hooligan named Neil
(via Adam Roberts)
Pixel Envy
• Nick Heer
Canada in the 1870s
Matt Growcoot, PetaPixel: Despite the technical difficulties, there are photographs of Canada in the 1860s — including one taken of the historic moment the proclamation of Confederation was read out at Market Square, Kingston, Ontario. I had no idea there was a photo taken when this proclamation was read. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink
Pixel Envy
• Nick Heer
Apple’s ‘Trusted System Agent’ Proposal Has Not Actually Been Built
When Apple announced Siri A.I. would not be available on E.U. iPhones or iPads at launch, it said: Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called Trusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual assistants to safely access the same features and capabilities as Siri AI for devices in the […]⌥ Permalink
April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’
Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app):
Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave
footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators
instead putting a focus on releasing mid-band spect...
Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers
webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise:
In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the
Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web
developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow
faster and mo...
EveryMac Turns 30
EveryMac:
Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since
then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been
there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the
original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your
support ...
I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)
Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-ran similar tests on m...
Truth Social Is Still Just Trump’s Blog
After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social other than Trump himself....
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
EveryMac at 30
EveryMac: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched. Thirty years is a long time -- and a great deal has changed since then -- but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Hide My Email Vulnerability Exposes Real Address
Joseph Cox (MacRumors, Hacker News): A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, according to a security researcher and 404 Media’s own tests. […] “Apple […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Hide My Email Moving to private.icloud.com Domain
Apple (MacRumors): Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com. New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. […] Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and forward mail […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Golden Gate Spotlight
Hartley Charlton: Apple today announced that it has rebuilt the search infrastructure that powers key features like Spotlight, Photos, and Mail across all of its major next-generation software platforms. LLM search using Core Spotlight: Level up basic search into a retrieval-augmented system using SpotlightSearchTool and LanguageModelSession. Explore Core Spotlight integration, delegate-based hydration patterns, and how […]
‘A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington’
politicalwire.com/2026/06/19/a-perfect-reflection-of-trumps-washington/
Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire:
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost
too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency.
He promised a quick, cheap fix.
Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned to more
than $14 millio...
blog - aows
• Adrian Vila
On the bridge, II
Claude Fable and Kayfabe
Anthropic:
On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to
our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This
required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether
inside or outside the United States. Because the order took effect
immedia...
‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly, is a Substack blog):
The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus
on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that
Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplac...
MG Siegler Got Banned From WhatsApp for No Reason
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass:
Yes, that’s right, for a third time in as many years, I’ve been
banned by Meta. What for? Do you really have to ask? Nobody
knows. My suspicion is that it’s directly tied to the
claiming of usernames on WhatsApp, which Meta opened up
yest...
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