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Slamming Into Walls
Mark Crump: Slamming Into Walls
The thought process behind this current post, was a long decision made quickly. It was a difficult decision as I spent a lot of time reconciling where I believe the future of computing to lie, and the reality of where computing is. The hard fact is, I can’t currently
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Stunts are getting their Oscar in 2028
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences: Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award for 100th Oscars
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the creation of an annual competitive Academy Award® for Achievement in Stunt Design, beginning with the 100th Academy Awards® for films released in 2027.
Good!
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Apple hits a major milestone in greenhouse emissions
Apple Newsroom: Apple Surpasses 60 Percent Reduction in Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Apple today announced that the company has surpassed a 60 percent reduction in its global greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2015 levels, as part of its Apple 2030 goal to become carbon neutral across its entire footprint in the next five years.
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Tariffs, integrity, and chaos
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine):
[T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In the vast sea of stupidity that are these tariffs this is perhaps the stupidest detail of all: the U.S. is tariffing raw
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Meta got tricky with LLM benchmarks
Oh boy, Meta released their latest llama models this weekend (I guess because they leaked, hence the rushed weekend release?), and it benchmarked quite well on LMArena. However, as Kyle Wiggers reported for TechCrunch, not all may have been on the up and up: Meta’s Benchmarks for Its New AI Models Are a Bit
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Remember when the Switch 2 was *only* going to cost $449?
Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump Tariffs
Nintendo has delayed pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the US while it evaluates the potential impact of new tariffs from The Trump Administration.
And A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump tariffs could make that happen.
The cheapest iPhone
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Let's move on from post-credits scenes
Director James Mangold: talking about whether he'd want to put a post-credit scenes in one of this movies back in 2018
The idea of making a movie that would fucking embarrass me, that's part of the anesthetizing of this country or the world. That's further confirming what they
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People’s passion for art made by humans persists
M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AI
This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a new age for art. And that may not devalue the human-created art as is the clear fear right now. In fact, it may even *elevate* it. Perhaps that sounds naive, but
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You have got to be kidding me
Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican Causes
On Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon Musk speak — and give away two giant cardboard checks for $1 million. Attendance at the event was limited to people who had added
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Settings > Default Apps > Voice Assistant
Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow you to set a different default voice assistant:
it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a new bar for the Siri team
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Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess
Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress
Investors were caught flat-footed by Trump’s animus toward Canada, which wasn’t a part of last year’s election campaign. Global markets were then roiled by the fallout from the Oval Office
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I keep telling people Google TV is better than you think
Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes
In short: Google TV is tasteful, well done, supports live streaming decently if not perfectly, and is a great extension of the Google ecosystem. As someone who does use YouTube TV and YouTube Premium, if I had to stop using my Apple TV tomorrow I’
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Before you burn it down…
I enjoyed this quote from Casey Newton on today's Hard Fork podcast:
Even as somebody who generally likes technology, I think some of these tech oligarchs have this extremely know-it-all attitude that "our tech is better than your tech, yours sucks," and they sort of bluster in and they
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The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads
Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I read
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Balatro continues to bring a smile
Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous
It’s an arrangement that the Playstack team figured out with LocalThunk ahead of other ceremonies like The Game Awards, where Balatro won three awards and was nominated for Game of the Year. LocalThunk didn’t want to be public, but he also didn’
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My job doesn't need to exist?
Rands: The Product Engineer
You don’t need Product Managers. There. I said it.
As someone who just moved into a product management role, you had best believe this line caught my eye. 👀
The post makes some reasonable arguments, although I think a lot of it is an argument against having bad product managers. I&
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The tale of Narcissus
Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students?
I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.”
But that’s just sophistry and spin.
Parents, for example, have
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I feel more empowered than ever
Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe
Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and purpose-built developer tools—have meaningfully increased the rate at which new software can be produced. And they’ve done so both by making skilled developers more productive while also lowering the bar for less-experienced
