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Ask an AI model what comes next after “bacon-double”, and the return is fairly unanimously “cheeseburger.” It’s a pattern-matched, single-pass

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Microsoft and Mistral are deepening their partnership with a multibillion-dollar agreement focused on enterprise AI infrastructure. The goal is to

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“I don’t think about you at all.” — Don Draper

If only it were that easy. Over the last year I’ve been reflecting on why negative, overly-personal complaints have affected me so much. I think it’s two things:

• I have never needed to grow thick skin. Over a 30+ year career, I’ve been lucky to get along with just about everyone I’ve worked with. I’ve also made a lot of friends in the Mac, iOS, and IndieWeb communities. Can’t really think of anyone being seriously upset with me before.
• I tend to fixate on things. So if I’m worried about something, I won’t be able to shake it for days or weeks. Negativity doesn’t get brushed off. It lingers for a long time and shapes my thinking on new situations I encounter.

Both of these get better with time. But neither is completely fixable without becoming a different person.

From an essay by Kevin Kelly: In the digital world, copies are so easy to make perfectly, they are free. The internet is basically a copy machine. The copies flow so fast and easily you could think of the internet … Continue reading →

Analysis of bestseller charts shows an 80 percent dip from 2025's sales rate.

No one with at least one functioning eyeball and half a brain has ever believed that the current Trump marriage is one built on mutual love, understanding, and respect. After all, this is Donald's third marriage, born out of a never-ending string of infidelity from one wife...

We can attend this country fair in Callicoon! There will be games, prizes, line dancing, local vendors to shop from and even a kids section. Continue reading…

A deadly early-morning fire inside a Hudson Valley maximum-security prison is now under investigation by State Police and several other agencies. Continue reading…

The trailer for Behemoth!, a forthcoming film written and directed by Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Andor) and starring Pedro Pascal & Olivia Wilde. Great trailer: it pulls you in without revealing anything about the plot.

Thinking about the new debate on AI model distillation, I re-read my long-ish post from two years ago about fair use. There was a lot of AI training backlash at the time. I still like the post. Fair use and open web principles are intertwined.

OpenAI continues to fix design issues with ChatGPT for Mac. It almost works the way I want if you click on the ChatGPT mode and then choose “…” → “Organize sidebar” → “In one list” so the coding projects don’t get in the way.

Disney is cutting hundreds of employees in its third round of layoffs this year.

The teams behind Pixar and National Geographic are among the most impacted.