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I love the pieces, hate the whole
Heatmap News: Is There Really a Working Class Backlash to Biden’s Climate Law?
when voters are asked about the individual provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, including EV subsidies, tax incentives to install solar panels and industry subsidies for wind and solar power generation, they support them by double-digit margins. A recent Washington
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Disney would prefer I see ads
Ben Thompson: Disney Earnings, A Split Disney?, ESPN’s Advertising
Advertising takes away the trade-offs: more customers mean more money, both in terms of increased inventory and also increased leverage on your advertising infrastructure; meanwhile, the lower prices made possible by ads lead to decreased churn. At the same time, the upside for advertising
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The same conversation for a decade
Harry McCracken: Why the iPad Remains a Beautiful Disappointment
All along, we’ve known that Apple wants the iPad to be capable but distinctly different from the Mac. Yet, as the iPad gets more powerful and the Mac gets more modern, it isn’t clear that even Apple has a coherent view of where that
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Mac gaming should catch up with Linux (yes, Linux)
Liam Dawe: 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
Gamers using Linux (be it desktop or Steam Deck) in 2023 are now in a place where they can get excited alongside friends who use Windows or traditional consoles, because they know there's a good probable chance at release that whatever
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Facebook removed news from Canadian's news feeds. It changed nothing
Steve Scherer: Exclusive: Meta's Canada News Ban Fails to Dent Facebook Usage
Daily active users of Facebook and time spent on the app in Canada have stayed roughly unchanged since parent company Meta started blocking news there at the start of August
These "pay to send traffic to someone else" laws
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Jason Snell, Travel, and the iPad
Jason Snell: Giving Up the iPad-only Travel Dream
My productivity needs are clearly unlike those of most people, but the truth is that everyone’s got different productivity needs. The problem with the iPad continues to be that as it builds functionality, it has failed to build in flexibility—or at least the flexibility
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I hope this isn’t the “controversy” with this year’s iPhones
Yesterday:
Another rumor today suggests that Apple's standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus models are unlikely to enjoy any increase in data transfer speeds following the transition.
Followed by this report today:
Apple may offer a USB-C data transfer accessory cable for iPhone 15 Pro models that is capable of Thunderbolt
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Basing one’s whole argument on an irrelevant metric
Ted Gioia: Ugly Numbers From Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal That AI Demand Is Already Shrinking
What’s wrong? Everybody was supposed to prefer AI over conventional search. And it turns out that nobody cares.
Not everybody said that, but yes, I’ve agreed from the jump that search engines are better at finding facts that
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PlayStation Portal isn’t what I wanted, but it might be alright anyway
PlayStation.Blog: PlayStation’s First Remote Play Dedicated Device, PlayStation Portal Remote Player, to Launch Later This Year at $199.
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Revealed preference for donuts
Today’s adventure comes in 4 parts:
1. A quote
2. My opinion
3. My contradictory opinion
4. An unexpected
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YouTube “stole” my idea
Jay Peters: YouTube Is Rounding the Corners on Desktop - The Verge
YouTube is rolling out rounded edges on the main
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I will die on this hill; don’t apologize for liking “bad movies”
Petrana Radulovic: Stop Apologizing for Enjoying Romantic Comedies
Across social media, many people are saying they liked the movie, then quickly clarifying that they know it’s dumb, silly, and not serious fare. And some critics have praised the movie while also trying to defend their fondness, saying they know Red, White & Royal Blue
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Konami does one thing right and one thing wrong with their upcoming Metal Gear Solid collection
Nintendo Life: Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Will Have Lower Frame Rates on Switch, Konami Confirms
Konami has now
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Figuring out how to report on the fundamental chaos of LLMs
This new paper has been making the rounds, showing that ChatGPT has a well-documented liberal bias. As with so
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ChatGPT still hasn’t taken all those jobs
Alex Kantrowitz: Why ChatGPT Hasn’t Ignited the Employment Apocalypse That So Many Predicted.
“They can do one discrete, information-oriented task, basically, at a time before they need a human to review what they’ve done and then move to the next thing,” he says
Quoting myself from 3 short months ago:
I know
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Big week for NFTs as their main artist-friendly draw is killed and some folks sue for being fooled into thinking bored apes were legit
Jon Brodkin: Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs Sue After Digital Apes Turn Out to Be Bad Investment
The Sotheby'
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Sins of the web from 1999
I was reading this list of the 10 biggest web design mistakes in 1999, and it was a good read
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The Leica Q2 seems wonderful
The Newsprint: The Leica Q2
The Q2 has an incredible build, there’s no doubt. And it’s this build
