Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

They built a system that treats your attention as an extractable resource. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become a crisis.

There are a shitload of downsides to using AI, but I have to admit that even if you think it's just a clumsy word salad robot, giving out helpful advice freely is a refreshing contrast to how most online communities treat their newest members and I have to acknowledge that it's a real upside in AI tools.

Wade Foster: the agent is actually choosing what products to buy on behalf of a human, and so you are no longer advertising to the human. You are trying to get the agent to say, pick me, pick me. Pick me.

The lesson I took from this is that a universal data representation is worth its weight in gold. There are exactly two options in this category. In most cases you should choose JSON. If you need a DSL though, XML is by far the cheapest one, and the cost-efficiency of building on it will empower your team to spend their innovation budget elsewhere.

"The billboards here are actually something that makes me feel really pessimistic about the city," said Allie, a San Francisco resident who was among the dozen or so people to comment on current billboard trends on NPR member station KQED's Forum talk show last summer. (Forum typically doesn't give the full names of callers.) "They kind of give this feeling that like the rumors are true and tech has overrun the city, and that's the whole culture here now."

RSS feeds give you the power to set up and control your own information flow — you get to make your own algorithm for the things you want to see from the sources you want to follow. Choose a tool below to get started.

Playground builds on a large library of DSP algorithms our team has developed over many years. The AI layer interprets your prompt, then combines or adapts these building blocks to produce new effects. Under the hood, multiple specialised agents handle different steps for parsing your request, selecting the right algorithms, generating code, and running automated tests during and after creation. We also designed the infrastructure to stay flexible about AI providers, so we can evaluate different models over time and choose the best balance of quality, reliability, and cost as the technology evolves.

I don’t care if the Neo lacks an ambient light sensor or if the webcam isn’t cutting-edge — It does not feature a notch on the top of the display and this is so huge for me. I thought Apple forgot that displays are supposed to be plain, uninterrupted, unblemished rectangles. Design-wise, this is currently the only Apple laptop I can look at and can think of purchasing after the 2020 M1 MacBook Air.

It is tempting to describe OpenClaw as a breakthrough in autonomy. That gives it slightly too much credit. The fantasy it sold was not subtle. Give the machine a goal, leave it alone, and return to discover that it has not merely completed a task but conducted a small campaign on your behalf. In the most vulgar version, the goal is simply to make money. So the demo feed fills with the same intoxicating little story: the agent notices a pain point, writes the code, wires up payments, deploys the thing, posts the link and begins, as if by administrative sorcery, to earn while its owner sleeps.

Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit? A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.

This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.