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Google Beam, spatial personas, and different solutions to the same thing
Video conferencing is absolutely amazing tech, but it's not perfect. Google Beam and the Vision Pro's spatial personas are trying to improve some of the limits of those webcam calls a lot of us are doing every day, but they're coming at them from different angles. Google Beam has
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The one video game YouTube channel my wife likes
I love Kyle Bosman. I think his style is lovely and his comedic instincts just land with me. The best thing I can say is that it's the only video game channel that my wife doesn't roll her eyes at.
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Solar is on a freaking roll
Euan Graham, Nicolas Fulghum, and Katye Altieri: Global Electricity Review 2025 (yes, I did read this after watching Hank Green&
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Sometimes rock stars become high school teachers
I love, love, loved Absolutely (Story of a Girl) and I was a teenager, and I've watched this video at last a dozen times over the years because I love that sometimes you're famous one day and just a normal guy the next. I hope this guy's doing great.
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Newer LLMs are getting worse at some things
Joe Wilkins writing for Futurism: AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse at Summarizing Data
Alarmingly, the LLMs' rate of error was found to increase the newer the chatbot was — the exact opposite of what AI industry leaders have been promising us. This is in addition to a correlation between an LLM's tendency
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Malicious compliance getting the 🤨
Johnny Ryan: EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft, deceives hundreds of millions of Europeans. The tech industry has sought to hide its
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A big Things update you might not even notice
Werner in the Things blog: A Swift Cloud
We’ve rebuilt Things Cloud from the ground up. The system that keeps your to-dos in sync is now faster, built with modern technology, and ready for the future.
This is gonna sound like a burn, and I don't mean it that way, but
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The relationship doesn't have to end, it just might need to change
Glenn Fleishman writing for Six Colors: Can We Still Love Apple? Should We Ever Have?
Maybe it is the right time for this love affair to come to an end. Not the end of my love for what I can do with Apple stuff, but creating boundaries, something good for any relationship. From Tim Cook
Why do LLMs work?
This is such a good, quick video explaining why we don't really understand why LLMs work the way thy do.
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Owning digital goods means having the file, not some stupid ledger
Matthew Gault for 404 Media: NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
On Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for millions of dollars vanished from the internet and were replaced with the phrase “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in
AI doesn't need to be your personality
This post is a simple reminder that you can enjoy the benefits that AI tools bring to you without making it your whole damn personality. The important thing remains the human connections and the work we do. Use AI to assist you do things you haven't been able to do before, but that&
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I think we can be pretty certain at least some people use the Vision Pro
Riley Hill on his SlatePad blog, linking to a Wall Street Journal article about how many Vision Pro users are regretting their purchase: I Paid $3,500 for Apple’s Vision Pro. Seven Months Later, I Still Use It (Almost) Every Day.
The narrative being presented is that early adopters (which is every Vision Pro
What if Apple made a folding phone?
I've been using a new phone for the past month, as shown in the photo above. Hmm, that
How I radically dropped my tech carbon footprint without cancelling ChatGPT
A year ago it was estimated that (using some fuzzy, maybe 10x too pessimistic math), that ChatGPT uses as much electricity as 17,000 US homes. This was reported as some sort of travesty to the environment (something I care about, for what it's worth), but "numbers without context" is a
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This is happening now
Bruce Springsteen is on his "Land of Hope and Dreams Tour" right now, which kicked off yesterday in Manchester where he said this between a couple songs:
There's some very weird, strange, and dangerous shit going on out there right now.
In America, they are persecuting people for using their right
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Max viewers mostly watched HBO
John Koblin: HBO’s Streaming Service Becomes ‘HBO Max’ Again
The reason for the change, executives explained, was straightforward.
People who subscribe and pay $17 a month for the streaming service wind up watching HBO content like “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us,” as well as new movies, documentaries and not a whole
