Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but stumbling into such a trove of active blogs has enthused me about blogging as a medium again. It’s sparked a thought that through a combination of increased blogging activity, declining
Steven Asarch for Kotaku, Xbox’s Biggest Flop Was a Decade Ahead of Its Time Microsoft’s follow-up was the Xbox One, the always-online console bundled with the much-maligned motion control accessory known as the Kinect. To be blunt, the console’s introduction was a bit of a clusterfuck. It
I wrote a little about this already, but I also wanted to link to Ken White’s Substack Has a Nazi Opportunity because it makes a few points very well and is worth a read. I dislike McKenzie’s apologia for Substack’s 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. Here’s 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, Apple’s 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
I’ve watched well over 100 movies this year, and I’ve 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, here’s 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? What’s 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 it’s been utterly disastrous for
Devon Coldeway writing for TechCrunch: Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re 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