Strong agree! Peppermint is also a nice option once in a while.
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Strong agree! Peppermint is also a nice option once in a while.
And FIFA!
AND NOBODY WILL ASK HIM SHIT! In contrast to Mamdani constantly being asked about a thing *he never even said*!
lol. And how is everyone on the show so bad at making decisions
You got this!
Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
You are not persuading the text pipeline! You are stumbling on to a mathematical vector in which you are causing the word delivery mechanism to replicate sequences other people typed up in which they are persuaded and that OpenAI likely stole without permission!
So good. The father’s performance in particular blew me away. I’ve since found him in other movies including one called Boiling Point from the same director as Adolescence about one night at a restaurant. Also one shot and intense. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boiling_po...
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
What are your thoughts on the role a deranged and complicit administration could play in shaping this outcome/artificially avoiding a crash?
Offering to friends is always a good option
Welcome aboard! We kept a whole cabinet filled with stuff, left untouched, for over two years until finally getting rid of them (and getting all that space back!)
These are so good. Thanks for sharing. Gonna try to catch it in 20.
being aware of bad things happening is important, but doomerism is corrosive. it’s a form of voter suppression in that it makes people feel helpless and disincentivizes them from participating (“why bother when we can’t win anyway”). block early and often.
between this and Not Like Us it’s been a rough couple years
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
I'm researching a magazine piece on how AI coding-tools are affecting software development Are you a dev who uses 'em? Avoids 'em? Love to get your 2 cents! Also: New CS grads looking for work ... what's it like, in this environment? hit me up at clive@clivethompson.net (and repost this please!)
apple's weirdest app has to be their Texas Holdem game that has human fmv actors in costumes and primitive prerendered backgrounds. it also has an awful ui. it feels like some 1997 mad dog mccree type shit but it's still on the app store right now
Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: Bloc Party Tycho Killers Foo Fighters Fred Again
Incredible video
In awe 🫢
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
my dad was always saying this
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
Great answer.
Is Claude your go to writing related LLM? What about thinking partner LLM?
Zohran figuratively beating Cuomo to death with his own shoes when he’s like 20 points ahead is how you establish a Fiorello La Guardia level legacy in New York and everyone in politics should be taking notes.
When I first went to Seattle in my 20s something similar happened with people setting up grills at night serving sausages and they put CREAM CHEESE on the sausages and they were delicious and I left thinking Seattle was special.
There have been better tweets and funnier tweets and smarter tweets, but I think this may be my favorite tweet.
Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
The lip sync is 💯
This is a real performance? This is amazing. Tnx for sharing.
How was it?! Going in Brooklyn and can’t wait.
you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗
Thanks for the reply. So what does that mean I should do today with my setup? Keep them as separate? What benefit does bridging my Ghost blog to this profile do for me bsky.app/profile/alex... or am I better off just sticking to Bluesky and posting any new blogposts there (feels cleaner to me)
I’ve been wrestling this the past two days - specifically whether there’s a way to bring my Ghost blog/newsletter (created this profile bsky.app/profile/alex... ) and this Bluesky account together. Would you happen to know the answer?
This is incredible
Highly recommend this book. Does a great job painting how private equity operates through the lens of 4 different narratives/industries - retail, housing, healthcare and journalism.
I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see
Very excited about where Ghost is going (happy subscriber here) and if you're looking for a new platform (ahem: leavesubstack.com) the crew at Ghost are awesome.
Nothing reminds you how scary facial recognition is than these sleepaway camp apps’ ability to pick out your kids in a pic when all you see is a blurry sliver of their face and have been trained on one photo of them.
Thank you for passing that along!
That’s great to see confirmed. We’re in a similar boat - I have a French passport and plan to get one for my kids which sounds like that would mean we’d avoid international tuition fee?
Thank you for reading! Ya I've heard SongShift is great.
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@craigmod.com Hey Craig! Long time no chat. Just wanted to let you know I just read through TBOT over the past week and I loved it. Thank you for sharing it. Visiting Japan has always been tops on my list but I’ve been waiting till our kids are old enough to come along and that might be next year.
Interesting. So subtly presented though.
I highly recommend Sarah Wynne Williams’ book Careless People as an account of why this person and company shouldn’t be trusted to make good decisions about anything of any importance.
Ah ya. Saw that in the post. Was curious if you’d found any others you love. I stopped wearing my Apple Watch so I’m back to phone apps.
I heard in a pod that @danshipper.bsky.social and the crew at Every are working on on called Monologue but I’ve only been able to find a desktop beta.
wisprflow.ai
What app do you like most? I’ve been trying WsprFlow the past few weeks and it’s been generally really good (you can program a hot key on your keyboard to just talk instead of typing) Had one wonky experience with the iPhone app but overall those have been good.
I love this.
What are your fave Switch 2 games? Just picked one up for BANANZA to replace our no longer working 2017 switch.
Do you buy that?
Who even are those people? Ben Affleck and Ghislane Maxwell?
lol. Recently saw them at Forest Hills and was so blown away by the glockenspieling I grabbed a photo
woohoo! congrats on getting to this step!
I got to know Hillman through my first job out of college in 98 at Razorfish where he worked out of a desk in our office. He was the best. Always willing to take the time explain the cool shit he was doing to a 20 year old who was trying to understand what was possible on the web at that time. ❤️
Oh super curious what other uses you might find for this.
You happy with the Switch 2?
GYWO is one of my favorite early internet things. Every few years I go back to remind myself how great it was. Thanks for sharing.
Cool. Will hold off.
are the betas stable enough to roll with on a main device? I usually wait until a few in but its been getting better every year.
Lol - my immediate assumption was Rubio faked his slip to take the heat of his boss’
What are you playing it on?
Loved it when I saw it! Congrats on the launch!
We have one near us in Port Chester and love it. Delicious alternative to more traditional pizzas. Their pizza with pepperoni + stinger peppers and hot oil is 💯
That bird is made up of all the most popular Starter jackets from the 90s.
Still good? We watched a ton during Covid and then fell off
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Do you think it is? (I do, at least for me + what I'm interested in)
Hillbilly Elegy looks like a gag in 30 Rock where Jenna is playing both roles in an attempt to win two Oscars for the same movie.
I am intrigued
Awesome work!
Same
haha . I had the same moment this morning.
I imagine it’s like will smith eating AI pasta
What’s an autopen?
Heist is building something in this space apps.apple.com/us/app/heist... cc @justingarrison.com
I made an inspirational greeting card with a spinning Ken Masters. So to all those frustrated out there: "Don't give up because I am... Shoryuken do it!"
This sounds great. Thanks for sharing.
@sippey.com read your post about @fromedome.bsky.social ‘s great piece on the Apple Watch and your decision to stop wearing one. I made the same move recently after wearing and AW since day 1. Went analog + Whoop and I’m loving it.
Ah alas I’m in the Rye Neck school district so sadly can’t help you there but I know it’s a live conversation!
Aww that’s kind of you to say!
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You prefer 1 or 2?
I'm actually surprised its taken this long to get to this
ha - It all comes full circle.
What are you going to switch to? I need to figure out if either of ours are in the deprecation bucket.
This sounds neat! The combo browser / rss situation makes me think of a feature I've recently wanted. Use case: Following the White Lotus season finale I wanted to be able to "fish" for the *best* pieces out there and have them show up in my RSS reader.
Love this touch. Would be fun to know how you’re classifying something as spoilable.
You should check out the Plain History mini series @dkthomp.bsky.social has been doing on his Plain English pod. Really good.
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Thanks for the share! Added to my feed. Any other regular faves?
yess! excited to hear you tried and liked!
