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A splash of color
Chris Nicholas: A new blog for 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post,
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Nintendo is Nintendo
Keza MacDonald: Nintendo’s Design Guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I Wanted to Make Something Weird’
Miyamoto is often called the Spielberg
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Reasons to be optimistic
Nick Heer: How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now
When I was much younger, I assumed people who were optimistic
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The future of LLMs is local
I saw this post over on json.blog, OpenAI Is Just Uber, which sounds like it makes sense, but I
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Walking away and feeling great about it
Ben Werdmuller: Leaving the Nazi Bar
If I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make
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2023 was a big year for the fediverse. 2024 could be even bigger
David Pierce for The Verge, 2023 in Social Media: The Case for the Fediverse
It doesn’t make sense that
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Swing back to the blog
Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but stumbling
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That time Microsoft blew it with Xbox
Steven Asarch for Kotaku, Xbox’s Biggest Flop Was a Decade Ahead of Its Time
Microsoft’s follow-up was the
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It’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity!
I wrote a little about this already, but I also wanted to link to Ken White’s Substack Has a
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I’m always happy I use Ghost and not Substack, but I’m extra happy today
Hamish McKenzie in a note on Substack:
We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to
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The surprising challenge to run the best web apps locally
Tim Bradshaw for the Financial Times: Apple Wants AI to Run Directly on Its Hardware Instead of in the Cloud
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Pedestrian deaths have been rising for a decade. Mostly in America, and mostly at night. Why?
Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz for the New York Times: Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?
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The Beeper Mini saga
Beeper: Beeper Mini Is Back
In the first 48 hours, it was downloaded by more than 100,000 people. The
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A great year for games, a great year for players, and a tough year for the people making those games
Ash Parrish writing for The Verge: Geoff Keighley failed to recognize a terrible year for game developers - The Verge
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LLMs can be quick to discriminate, and that says more about us than we’d like to think
Devon Coldeway writing for TechCrunch: Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely
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The harmful mythology of “we didn’t use CG”
Todd Vaziri: FXRant: The Most Egregious Example of "We Didn't Use CGI" Mythology (So Far)
In
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Big month for plagiarism
Case Marshall writing for Polygon: Hbomberguy’s 4-hour YouTube plagiarism video set social media abuzz
Brewis systematically goes through Somerton’
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Google releases Gemini Nano, which runs locally on Pixel 8 (just like Apple should next year)
Casey Newton reporting on Google’s update to their AI backend, Gemini
In accordance with Google’s preference for chaotic