Weirdo Walls
Welcome to the weirdest (and maybe the most controversial) wallpaper pack I've made yet: Weirdo Walls. You can
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eSIM Has Some Major Benefits
Brian X. Chen: Attention, Travelers: Now Is the Best Time to Switch to eSIM
As vacation season looms, now is as good a time as ever to bite the bullet and become familiar with a smartphone feature that many of us have ignored for years: the eSIM, the digital version of the SIM card that
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Mixed Emotions (365 Albums)
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It’s More Than Just Elon Who Gets Artificially Boosted Into Your Timeline
Zoë Schiffer: The Secret List of Twitter VIPs Getting Boosted Over Everyone Else
But Twitter does have a different standard
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Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (365 Albums)
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Assume Form (365 Albums)
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Terrible Benchmarks and AI Text Generators
I keep seeing people trying to show how stupid these AI text generators are by giving them inane tasks that someone would only do to…um…test AI text generators. Here’s an example I saw today (nothing but love to Daniel Jalkut, btw):
On the one hard, yes, this lets you go “haha, this
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Either/Or (365 Albums)
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The Warning (365 Albums)
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What Was the First Thing You Asked ChatGPT?
Stuart A. Thompsonm Tiffany Hsu, and Steven Lee Myers: As Chatbots Spread, Conservatives Dream About a Right-Wing Response
The program has, for instance, written an ode to President Biden, but it has declined to write a similar poem about former President Donald J. Trump, citing a desire for neutrality. ChatGPT also told one user
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Native on Mobile, Anything Goes on Desktop
I know this isn't true for everyone, but I've recently noticed that while I tend to prefer native apps built with care for iOS on my iPhone and iPad, I have basically none of that feeling on my Mac.
For Example…
For example, I have been experimenting using Cron for my
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From Here We Go Sublime (365 Albums)
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Transatlanticism (365 Albums)
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Liberal Use of the Exploding Head Emoji Over Nothing
John Gruber: It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes
Now come this: a Twitter thread from John Meyer, who trained a clone of Jobs’s voice and then hooked it up to ChatGPT to generate the words. The clips he posted to Twitter are freakishly uncanny. It really sounds like Jobs. The only hitch is
A.I. Text Generators Love to Bullshit (and my opinion on these "A.I." text generators)
Another fighter has entered the ring! I've been playing around with these text generators for a while now, and I love seeing how they react differently to different prompts. Sometimes I'm amazed, and other times it's just a cluster.
Today I wanted to test the three big players in
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The Life Pursuit (365 Albums)
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The Venture Capitalist's Dilemma
Molly White: The Venture Capitalist's Dilemma
We have found ourselves in a scenario where the investor class has, yet again, managed to privatize profits and socialize losses. While many of these powerful, wealthy, and connected individuals have pushed for policies that would scale back government and regulators, promoted cryptocurrencies they believe to be
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Grapefruit Season (365 Albums)
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