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Terraink makes rad maps on demand
Terraink is a cool new website that lets you create cool maps of whatever location you want to. That'
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Tom Scott on AI in February 2023
From the video:
I've been complaining for years that it feels like nothing has really changed since smartphones came along. And I think that maybe, maybe I should have been careful what I wished for.
It's been 2 years since Tom Scott stopped posting weekly videos on YouTube, but he was
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How to make Midnight City
M83’s Midnight City is one of my favorite songs of all time, and this video recreating it is brilliant.
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When the words on the page don’t match what you’re trying to say (follow up on the Ben Thompson post)
Ben Thompson: Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros.
This is a lot more complicated than the nuclear question, where government control and ownership was a given; the sort of actions taken by the government over the last week fly in the face of the concept of private decision making and
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"What are you going to do, stop me? I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support
Over the last couple weeks, Anthropic and the Department of War have been engaged in a war of words over something very exciting: terms of use. Anthropic, as a private company, has created a product and reasonably established terms of use for it. However, the Department of War doesn't want to adhere to
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Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky
I don't have anything to say other than you're welcome for finding the best 5 minutes of YouTube you'll see today.
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Anthropic does the bare minimum, but these days that's impressive
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain
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Block is making more profit than ever, so they're firing 40% of their employees
Jack Dorsey on Twitter: we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.
Apparently also
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Drive to Survive is coming to Apple TV tonight
Chance Miller: New ‘F1: Drive to Survive’ season is coming to Apple TV
Ahead of the first F1 Grand Prix next week, Apple has announced a new partnership with Netflix in the US. Through this deal, Apple will make the entire new season (season eight) of Formula 1: Drive to Survive available on Apple TV.
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The whole draw of the Mac is that it can do whatever you want it to do
Wesley Hilliard has a new post out which is a bit of a retort to my opinion on touch Macs and iPads: Apple could enter its toaster-fridge era with touchscreen MacBooks
It's not that I think it's a bad idea, it's just an odd one. macOS was not
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In blind test, gamers think DLSS looks better than native rendering
Hassam Nasir: Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering (emphasis mine)
German outlet ComputerBase has conducted a blind test comparing the image quality of six games across different rendering techniques. The main showdown was between Nvidia's latest DLSS 4.5 and AMD&
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Shocker: Apple will update macOS UI to make touch a good experience 😉
Juli Clover reporting on Mark Gurman’s latest report: Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls
Apple is updating macOS to make it more touch friendly. Users will be able to tap or click on-screen elements, and controls will change based on input method. If a user
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Why many of us have no patience for liquid glass
Jason Snell: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to
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Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin
Brendon Bigley: Bluepoint Games Shuttered by PlayStation for Some Unfathomable Reason
Are we sincerely supposed to believe that in a world where the entire industry is bending over backward to remake and remaster every game under the sun, the studio that’s arguably the best at it can’t find a path to profitability?
Bluepoint
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Why I don't offload my writing to AI
Claudio Nastruzzi: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and "blood" reside – and systematically replaces them
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Freedom is the government asking for the physical location of those critical of that government on social media
Mariella Moon: Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized
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Tahoe brings 80% charging caps to the Mac
Juli Clover: Apple Brings iPhone-Style Battery Charge Limits to the Mac in macOS Tahoe 26.4
The macOS Tahoe 26.4 beta that Apple released today includes a Charge Limit feature for the Mac. There is a new slider bar that lets Mac users select a charge level from 80 percent to 100 percent.
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The data has changed
Rachel Thomas: Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
It is worth experimenting with AI coding agents to see what they can do, but don’t abandon the development of your current skillset. Part of the appeal of vibe coding is claimed extrapolation about how effective it will be 6 or 12 months from now. These