I wrote a little about this already, but I also wanted to link to Ken Whiteās Substack Has a Nazi Opportunity because it makes a few points very well and is worth a read. I dislike McKenzieās apologia for Substackās policy and for Richard Hanania because it
Hamish McKenzie in a note on Substack: We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to open discourse is the best way to strip bad ideas of their power. We are committed to upholding and protecting freedom of expression, even when it hurts. Hereās what
Tim Bradshaw for the Financial Times: Apple Wants AI to Run Directly on Its Hardware Instead of in the Cloud While Microsoft and Google have largely focused on delivering chatbots and other generative AI services over the Internet from their vast cloud computing platforms, Appleās research suggests that it
Do you subscribe to MKBHD on YouTube? If you follow this blog, then there's a very high chance you do. If you don't, then swap in whoever you like here, but I wanted to ask a simple series of questions. Do you subscribe to MKBHD because
Iāve watched well over 100 movies this year, and Iāve posted a review of every one to a thread on Mastodon, as well as my Letterboxd profile. But since I know not everyone follows me there and others would prefer a blog post, hereās my reviews of
I put about 70 hours of game time in Forza Horizon 4 back in 2020. I was naturally excited to play the follow-up, predictably titled Forza Horizon 5, but I bounced off it after just a few hours. Was I just burnt out on this gameplay loop? On paper it
Today I wanted to take a few minutes to share some of my favorite little things you can do in macOS that are tucked out of the way and you might now know about. Whether you've been using a Mac for 30 years or you just bought one
Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz for the New York Times: Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? Whatās even more perplexing: Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries. In places like Canada and Australia, a much lower share of pedestrian fatalities occurs
Beeper: Beeper Mini Is Back In the first 48 hours, it was downloaded by more than 100,000 people. The reason for its success is clear: Android and iPhone customers desperately want to be able to chat together with high quality images/video, encryption, emojis, typing status, read receipts, and
Ash Parrish writing for The Verge: Geoff Keighley failed to recognize a terrible year for game developers - The Verge At this point, you cannot talk about how amazing 2023 has been for the quality of games released this year without also mentioning how itās been utterly disastrous for
Devon Coldeway writing for TechCrunch: Anthropicās latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it āreally really really reallyā nicely The problem of alignment is an important one when youāre setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how can you reduce biases
It's been about 2 weeks since I stopped using nearly $1,000/year-worth of subscriptions and changed to free or paid-up-front options, and I wanted to give an update with some micro-details on how it's going. I have only resumed one subscription, but I've
Todd Vaziri: FXRant: The Most Egregious Example of "We Didn't Use CGI" Mythology (So Far) In 2023, I can't believe we're still dealing with these ridiculous, bold-faced lies. "Gran Turismo" had over 1,100 digital visual effects - digital effects
Case Marshall writing for Polygon: Hbomberguyās 4-hour YouTube plagiarism video set social media abuzz Brewis systematically goes through Somertonās content, calling out multiple instances in which he plagiarizes ā or heavily lifts from, without proper crediting ā authors from other outlets, academics, and documentaries. I know itās a lot
Casey Newton reporting on Googleās update to their AI backend, Gemini In accordance with Googleās preference for chaotic branding, Gemini will be available in three āsizesā: Nano, which is small enough to fit in a smartphone and will power features in the Pixel 8 Pro smartphone starting today;