Members
+ A bicycle for the mind is good. Is a motorbike too much?
When is the computer doing too much for you? Has our line for this moved over time?
Blog
Links
What's that power you've amassed for if you're not going to use it?
I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?…
At a time
Links
The urge that comes with power
Nilay Patel on this week's The Vergecast:
You can just see that they picked the finances over the
Links
Strong (fanboy) opinions loosely held
Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: iPhone 17 Air USB-C Port May Have This Unusual Design Quirk
Dummy models shared by
Members
+ When a *redacted* closes…
Links
The prices, they keep a-rising
Microsoft in a support document today:
As of May 1, we have adjusted recommended retailer pricing for our consoles and
The vast nothingness of Threads
For many years I've kept a spreadsheet with a few metrics on my online life. I don'
Links
Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is
There’
Links
A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use
Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment
If you want to prompt
Links
Here we go…
Jay Peters reporting on yesterday's Epic vs Apple trial decision:
Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
Members
+ Impressions of that secret product I'm not talking about yet
Another 2,000 words on the thing that I'm not talking about yet.
Links
It's a legal issue, not something AI is here to fix
Microsoft has released a demo of an AI-generated version of Quake you can play in the browser (well, desktop browsers,
Ghost just made 3 nice updates to federation (and native sharing in general)
Ghost, the blogging engine that powers this site, just made 3 nice enhancements to the way your posts are natively
Links
Foo Fighers, but ska (trust me)
JER is awesome, and he's been doing these ska covers of pop songs for years now. They'
A totally reasonable content warning feature request
Mastodon has a content warning feature that I think is pretty useful. Basically, when someone marks a post as having
Members
+ A new gadget enters the fray
I got a new gadget that I've been wanting to try out for 6 years.
Links
The Academy makes another reasonable choice!
Brooks Barnes: Oscars OK the Use of A.I., With Caveats
A.I. and other digital tools “neither help nor
Links
You don't have to be famous to be great at your job
Christopher Butler: You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
Especially today, when we live in an attention