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The many faces of…Godzilla
Samantha Nelson writing for Polygon: America Made Godzilla a Superhero. In Japan, He’s Still a Monster.
Godzilla has evolved considerably from his 1954 Japanese debut to the latest franchise installment, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And in his most recent incarnations, clear national lines have been drawn between Toho’s version and Legendary’
The best experience BY FAR I've had on a headset
I've said before that wearing a headset is fundamentally annoying, and headsets need to deliver experiences that are
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The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship
Home With The Armadillo: Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
Essentially, the “follow” feature allows Substack to hold writers (and readers) hostage on their platform, forcing them to operate in a closed-content ecosystem that predominantly benefits Substack. Readers must use the Substack app or the Substack site to see content
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Let's dive into my A.I. search history! (members post)
What do I use chatbots to actually do day to day? People are always so vague about this stuff, so let's go into my real search history and find out what I find them useful for.
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Another Matrix movie, huh?
Warner Bros has announced they’re making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew Goddard writing and directing. He’s best known for writing The Martian’s adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods.
Here’s my top 4 featured movies on my Letterboxd account:
Yeah, I’m
Some notable Threads users you can follow on Mastodon
Meta rolled out federation to users in the US, Canada, and Japan recently, and it's opt in, which I think is the right way to do it, even if it means it's going to take a while for most accounts to enable it. I have tried to do my part to
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5 ways I’d like iOS 18 to improve the iPhone home screen
No intro, let’s just get into it!
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It’s not the most important thing in the world,
A simple explainer on federation, and what it means for Threads users
You probably got to this post because you Googled some question about what exactly “the fediverse” is, what “ActivityPub” actually
I miss having an iPad
They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I gotta be honest, that's how I'm feeling about the iPad right now. I sold my iPad Pro to help pay for my Vision Pro. Part of my rationale was that the Vision Pro would
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What I want from immersive video and why that MLS highlight reel was not quite it
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s Immersive Video Problem
Now, having seen the video, I have a few more observations. The first is that I don’t think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. […]
The problem is that, based on how Apple and MLS built the
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Claude tops GPT 4 in blind comparisons
Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: “The King Is Dead”—Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time
On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by
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Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform
Jeanna Kadlec on Threads
Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions plummet as our “follower” count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that it’s a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to transition to a social media
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Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review
Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life
The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop.
I spent a lot of time in my review
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The internet disrupts everything (members post)
A short story of a broken furnace, a wealth of information, and the need for experts to save the day. Oh, and the most badass portfolio site I've ever seen.
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404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)
404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed
Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request we’ve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to announce that today, we have finally
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Bring back the AirPort!
Joe Rosensteel: It’s Time for a New AirPort
networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when you’re at home, you’re on your Wi-Fi network. If your iPhone and your wireless
Let’s talk about that 3% number
Well, it seems like transaction info is something people are more interested in than I expected, so I wanted to tackle one more thing. So often in App Store discussions, we talk about Apple’s 30% cut of each in-app purchase on iPhones and how that’s so much higher than the “3% merchants
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Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
