My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2024
I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to make what is my current top 10 (plus honorable mentions & worst movies). As we get to the end of the year and you might have some free time to watch some things,
Yet more YouTube videos I've enjoyed recently
I guess this is a series now…
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!)
Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based
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Gemini 2.0: speed and deep research impress
From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic Era
Today we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and
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When do the Trump flags come down? (members post)
The flags are still flying, celebrating the man, not the country. Why is this something that happens now, and why is it something only happening on one end of the political spectrum?
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Squashing links on social media
Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife
For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly control commerce on its platform? If Instagram users could
AI, self-driving, and evolving your opinions on new tech over time
Casey Newton on Platformer: The Phony Comforts of AI Skepticism
The most persuasive way you can demonstrate the reality of AI, though, is to describe how it is already being used today. Not in speculative sci-fi scenarios, but in everyday offices and laboratories and schoolrooms. And not in the ways that you already know
I’m Knee-Deep in Turkey
Another week, another fantastically fun episode of Comfort Zone! This week Niléane talked about her new Flight Simulator obsession, we
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How Flight Simulator helped my flying anxiety (members post)
It turns out video games really can impact how you view the world.
I don’t care about bad or missing features that I don’t use
Sometimes I’ll talk about something I like online and people will express shock that I can use a product that has such a clear downside. I’ve gotten people ask how I can use Things since it doesn’t have shared task lists. More recently I was told the monitor I wanted to get
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Everything is a reaction, nothing is forever, and everything comes back (members post)
Why nothing stays popular forever.
The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe
Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which to be fair, I feel as well.
But you
Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone: This One Time at Bandcamp
We're releasing this week's Comfort Zone early so you can listen before all the festivities (in
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AI hype in the workplace is cooling, but usage is still on the rise
Slack: The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling
Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming year. And yet, for the first time since generative AI’s introduction, adoption rates are plateauing and excitement is cooling among the global workforce.
This study is a real Rorschach
🎥 Some great YouTube videos (again)
How about another dose of fun YouTube videos?
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Here we go again…is Chrome “the new IE”?
Magic Lasso’s blog: Is Chrome the New IE?
So Chrome becomes dominant – much like IE was back in its day – and web developers start focusing on building for Chrome and not open web standards.
So let me just say at the jump that corporate blogs should typically be taken very un-seriously. They’re
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Art doesn’t have to be “valuable to the market”
John Green on episode 401 of his Dear Hank & John podcast (Overcast link):
Art doesn’t have to only bring you joy, it could also bring you curiosity or interest or intrigue. But if it brings you something, whatever it beings you, that allows you to keep coming back to it and experience richness
More Birchtree is on sale this week
Just a quick post today to say that I am running what I expect to be my only sale of the year on More Birchtree. If you sign up for a year from now through Friday November 29, you can get a yearly for $35.
There is no coupon or anything, I've just
