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Trump raises taxes on Americans again
Shawn McCreesh: Trump Announces 10 Percent Tariff on European Countries in Standoff Over Greenland
President Trump announced in a social media post on Saturday morning his latest strategy to get control of Greenland: He is slapping new tariffs on a bloc of European nations until they come to the negotiating table to sell Greenland.
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Let the ChatGPT enshitification begin!
OpenAI: Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
Today we’re bringing Go to the U.S. and everywhere ChatGPT is available, giving people expanded access to messaging, image creation, file uploads and memory for $8 USD/month. In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.
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Meet Apple's new AI model, Gemini
Joint statement from Google and Apple
Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.
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This post was almost angry, now it's just confused
Jez Corden: Jeff Bezos once said the quiet part out loud
Bezos thinks that local PC hardware is antiquated, and that the future will revolve around cloud computing scenarios, where you rent your compute from companies like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
Corden links to an interview with Bezos where he talks about going
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It's just like Reddit 10 years ago!
Here's a post on Digg, which relaunched in beta today to everyone. I've been using it since July in their private beta, and it's pretty nice! Christian Selig, maker of the dearly missed Apollo, advised on the app design, so I guess that's not a big surprise.
Rapid iteration in the modern coding world
I recently wrote about how LLMs have made simple software trivial to create, but additionally, it's made features
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Are they real? Are they not? Are they actually sneakily good? How do you even begin to break free?
micro-apps
Micro app 3 - Podcast Dashboard
I built a micro-app for the folks over at MacStories, who as you know, produce a lot of podcasts.
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Back when the iPad didn't do files
Myself in 2015: iOS is 90% There, but That Last 10% Hurts
I know it's not happening, but I would pay a lot of money for a way to dual-boot iOS and OS X on my iPad.
I wonder if this is the first time I suggested this sort of thing. Amazingly,
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Apple (finally?) reveals their pro suite of apps
Well, well, well, Apple announced Apple Creator Studio today, and it's worth breaking down the announcement a bit.
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Elon Musk monetizes CSAM on X and Grok
Casey Newton: Grok gets blocked
On Friday, following days of mounting outrage over Grok generating sexualized deepfakes of women and children, X said it would restrict the feature to paying subscribers.
I know he's a ghoul, but what the fuck is Elon Musk doing?
This is absolute garbage. He's created a
It's already happened
antirez writing on his blog: Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
It is simply impossible not to see the reality of what is happening. Writing code is no longer needed for the most part. It is now a lot more interesting to understand what to do, and how to do it (and,
Quick Subtitles, now with live activities
Quick Subtitles 1.7 is out now, and it's an especially good update for iPhone and iPad users.
Quick Reviews, now with a 5-score system
Quick Reviews 2.4 is available now, and it includes what is probably the most requested feature I've
Birchtree Productions joins the 21st century, builds a website!
Almost exactly a year ago, I officially launched Birchtree Productions, LLC. This legal entity is what I use for most
micro-apps
Micro app #2: Download folder sorter
I'm the sort of person who treats their downloads folder as a kind of purgatory for files. It&
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I can't do this
I've drafts 2 versions of a post this weekend that I've ended up trashing. The second one had the fun title, "Big Government That Provides a Public Safety Net? Evil. Big Government That Shoots You in the Face? Conservative dream." Fun, I know.
I got into the irony of
micro-apps
Micro app #1: Yearly Run Tracker
This is the first in a series of posts about micro-apps I've built this year. I figured
