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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold:
He knows it’s probably not the right tool. It doesn’t matter. It never did.
The reviews can tell you what a computer is for. They have very little interest in what you might become because of one. …
When writing that last post, I instinctively went to the Wayback Machine because it’s a post about censorship from the publication being censored.
About halfway through the process I remembered Micro.blog already auto-archives pages. That …
Rose L. Thayer at Stars and Stripes:
The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication’s independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content…
This …
Speaking of puzzles, the author of today’s Apple Quartiles must be feeling pretty good about themselves.
Rosa canina, the dog rose, is a variable climbing, wild rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.
Learned a new plant from today’s LinkedIn Pinpoint game. I have a bad tendency of just accepting …
Confession: my Chapter By Chapter build pipeline is a messy hodgepodge of Make, Python, Pillow, webkit2png, pandoc, Image Magick, and probably other stuff I don’t want to think about any more.
Typing make works. Usually. Well, actually, I have …
That chapter (1 Kings 17) brings me to 700 total chapters with notes. Only 489 to go!
I have read 1 Kings many, many times. Yet tonight I noticed for the first time that the prophet Elijah flees from King Ahab to Jezebel’s homeland of Sidon—also under drought—showing that Yahweh, not Baal, rules rain and famine, life and death, in …
- It’s not the place of a corporation to dictate terms to the Department of Defense regarding how its product or services are used …
That’s already too much politics for one morning. Back to creating good things, rather than complaining about bad ones.
Yesterday, I published my Chapter By Chapter notes on 1 and 2 Samuel, which together ask and answer the timely question,
What …
Let me be specific about my complaint, using one of Thompson’s own examples.
If the US president in the 1940s were a madman and a felon who had repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to use the power of the government against his political enemies and …
Ben Thompson usually thinks clearly and well, but today’s article, despite its two up-to-the-minute examples, is written from a philosophical point of view that ignores the reality of the present moment. The breakdown of controls and ethics at the US …
We may not be able to salvage the word “evangelical” but the great, historic Apostolic faith will continue on. In the meantime, I await the “have you no decency, sir?” moment. We desperately need it.
I got to use the Kit app I wrote (currently in review) for the first time in this week’s VerseNotes newsletter.
No worrying about copy-pasting, or styling, or anything. Just typed /bible, then John 13:23, and kept moving. There was no step 3. …
Yesterday, I judged my first Utah FIRST event, the fourth round of FIRST Tech Challenge qualifiers for Utah.
No pictures for obvious reasons, but it was tons of fun!
Here’s the 8-hour-long official stream if you’re that bored.
Looking forward to …
Important insight from Manton Reece commenting on Terry Godier:
The best products take feedback from everywhere but filter it through the original vision. Otherwise you’ll eventually get a watered down or bloated thing with no uniquely …
I didn’t watch the State of the Union, because I was fairly sure it would be filled with lies and hypocrisy.
The first two paragraphs of this article are 100% worth your time, even if you stop there.
Also this:
It is as if the …
Pentagon Gives Anthropic Friday Deadline to Agree to Terms or Terminate Contract — The Information
The two sides have clashed over Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI models to be used for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons use without …
Of course I still use checks! Anyone taking your money should hear the power flick of your pen, dearie.
Writing a check looks like an innocuous bit of financial sleight-of-hand. You scribble on a piece of paper, and some …
This beautiful clock has been sitting in our house since Thanksgiving, making noise only when we passed by it too heavily.
As of yesterday, it makes very satisfying bongs every fifteen minutes and chimes the hour.
I am very pleased.
The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas:
Taalas’ silicon Llama achieves 17K tokens/sec per user, nearly 10X faster than the current state of the art, while costing 20X less to build, and consuming 10X less power.
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church reaches its peak with Tower of Jesus Christ:
A crane placed the upper arm of a cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ, the church’s soaring central piece, which now stands 172.5 meters (566 feet) above the …
Watched: Crimson Tide 🍿
I’m not sure how I missed this one, but it was a fun Red October-adjacent submarine movie. Ethics, Russians, nuclear war, and a surprising amount of discussion of horses.
Plus: Aragorn!
The iPhone’s lowest brightness setting is still quite bright if you’re in a dark room. But there’s a way to get it even darker.
I learned recently that this trick, which I thought was well-known, is not ubiquitous, so here it is. …
A Fortune survey doing the rounds this week has thousands of CEOs admitting that AI has had no measurable impact on employment or productivity.
They respond:
It’s a silly analogy, but you wouldn’t buy everyone in the …
