Ironic Sans · David Friedman
A Real Huge Voter Fraud Scandal [video]
A case that history has swept under the rug
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Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matthew Haughey
Recommended things in my home that are total game changers
The other day I tried to convince a friend to buy something I loved when I realized I should probably roll up that mini-review with other things in my house I've recommended to others over the years and make it into a post. All these things punch way
Popular Information · Judd Legum
UPDATE: "It's the First Amendment, Stupid"
Earlier this month, Popular Information reported that the Florida Department of Health had threatened TV executives with jail time if they continued to run an ad supporting a ballot initiative to protect reproductive rights in the state.
Justin's Linklog · dailylinks
Shitposting, Shit-mining and Shit-farming
Shitposting, Shit-mining and Shit-farming This is where we are with surveillance capitalism and Facebook/X: Social media platforms are improved by a moderate tincture of shitposting. More than a few drops though, and the place begins to stink up, driving away advertisers and users. This then leads platform executives…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Cabel Sasser’s XOXO 2024 talk
all of this year's XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #
Blog - Ethan Zuckerman · Ethan
What if our nation is not built for climate change?
Florida is preparing for Hurricane Milton, the second significant storm in two weeks to impact the southern US. Hurricane Helene killed at least 220 people and caused horrific damage in North Carolina, many miles from the coast, where massive rainfalls triggered widespread flooding. These storms are likely part of a…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Simon Willison on NotebookLM’s Automatically Generated Podcasts
Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
What if the media has the election all wrong?
What if Kamala Harris is leaving Trump in the dust, while the national media stubbornly sticks to the safer narrative that it’s a horserace going down to the wire? The post What if the media has the election all wrong? appeared first on Press Watch.
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Boomer Apple
Apple is well and truly a services company; hardware is necessary but insufficient for future growth.
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Happy Apple Labor Day
It’s Labor Day in the US (and Canada, though not anywhere else where it’s celebrated on May 1st.) This would be a good time to discuss Apple’s primary challenge. Writers whose unfortunate job is to cover Apple inevitably put forward lists of “challenges” faced by the company. It really is not possible to write or ……
ALL ESSAYS - MatthewBall.co · Matthew Ball
Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The best video game documentary ever just got better
the excellent Double Fine PsychOdyssey just got a surprise 90-minute epilogue and a limited Blu-ray release #
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Many Lives of Null Island
I never knew the shape of the in-joke for geospatial data geeks was based on the island from Myst #
Popular Information · Judd Legum
What Trump doesn't want you to know about Project 2025
Project 2025 is a radical blueprint for a potential second Trump administration, spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. The plan calls for withdrawing approval for the abortion pill, banning pornography, slashing corporate taxes, abolishing the Department of Education, replacing thousands of experienced…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Llama 3.1; Zuckerberg on Open Source AI; Kamala Harris, Europe, and Tech Innovation
Meta has released a state-of-the-art model that is available as open weights; this gets at how the U.S. can win going forward.
Popular Information · Judd Legum
A five-alarm fire for democracy
On Monday, six members of the Supreme Court granted Donald Trump — and every future president — broad criminal immunity. The court found that, as president, Trump was free to use his "official" powers to commit crimes. Considering the President of the United States is the most powerful position in the world, this is…
Popular Information · Judd Legum
Supreme power grab
For thirty years, federal law has required commercial fishing boats to include a trained observer to ensure the vessel does not engage in overfishing or other prohibited practices. The law specifies that certain classes of boats pay the costs of their own monitors. But, it is silent on herring boats. For many years,…
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matthew Haughey
My long strange trip into home automation
Over the past few years I've written about things I've done around my home, like putting in a five-acre wide WiFi network or tapping a NFC tag to unlock the front door, and I think I've finally figured out a novel setup for home
Justin's Linklog · dailylinks
Microsoft AI CEO doesn’t understand copyright
Microsoft AI CEO doesn't understand copyright Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, says "the social contract for content that is on the open web is that it's "freeware" for training AI models", and it "is fair use", and "anyone can copy it". As Ed Newton-Rex of Fairly Trained notes: This is categorically false.…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
How Apple Intelligence Works, Apple's AI Bear Case, The Talk Show Live
Understanding how Apple Intelligence works explains Apple's advantageous position; then, how Apple might still fall short, and two takeaways from Apple executives speaking to John Gruber
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Douglas Adams on Reactions to Technology, by Age
Idle Words
The Lunacy of Artemis
In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on authoritarianism and democracy. They declined to publish my submission, which I am sharing here instead. A little over 51 years ago, a rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying three astronauts and a space car. After a three…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Kleptones remastered “Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots” and “A Night At The Hip-Hopera
celebrating the 20th anniversary of two of the best mashup albums of all time #
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
The Paranoid Crusade Comes for Public Radio and Signal
Justin Ling: [Philip] Zimmermann is a bit of a hero of mine. (I tried to hide my gushing while we spoke.) I’m particularly fond of him because of the broad, complicated, messy coalition he helped usher in to continue advocating for this open internet: Anarchists, libertarians, paranoid weirdos, nerds, activists,…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Wes Anderson Made a Commercial — and Designed a New Pen — for Montblanc
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · Edward Zitron
The Man Who Killed Google Search
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman,
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Google and Apple, The Beginning
Are Apple and Google competitors or are they partners? Prior to the launch of the Android operating system, Apple and Google collaborated on many projects. Google Search was predominant on Apple products including the (at the time) new iPhone. The iPhone also launched with support for Gmail and had native Google Maps…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Delta Game Emulator Now Available From the App Store
Marcus on AI · Gary Marcus
LLMs aren’t very bright. Why are so many people fooled?
How Generative AI plays on human cognitive vulnerability
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Steven Sinofsky: ‘Building Under Regulation’
Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
How Google is killing independent sites like ours .... "And why you shouldn’t trust product recommendations from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google". This is an eye-opener -- I didn't realise how organised the affiliate marketing ecosystem was, in terms of gaming SEO. Google are now biasing towards…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Three students read the first passages from a 2,000-year-old scroll burned in Vesuvius eruption
they won $700k detecting ink found in high-resolution CT scans of carbonized ash, virtually unrolled and separated into sheets of papyrus #
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
13-year-old becomes first person to ever “beat” Tetris for the NES
don't miss the video where he hits the kill screen after 38 minutes of play and nearly passes out #
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Looking back at Aardvark’d, the Fog Creek Documentary, 18 years later
several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion #
Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2023-08-10
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas | New Zealand | The Guardian One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses” (tags: ai funny fail…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: “It’s amateur hour”
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Max Read on MrBeast’s clickbait altruism
feels like the YouTube version of The Ellen Show's charitable giveaways, totaling $450M over 19 years, all backed by sponsors #
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
May 29, 2023
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Unhinged Miniature World of Bobby Fingers
I've never seen anything quite like Bobby Fingers and his unhinged celebrity diorama videos on YouTube. So I tried to track him down to see if I could learn more.
Platformer · Casey Newton
How Google is making up for lost time
The company is finally bringing AI to the places that matter