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Everyone has commercials they remember. There's a set of commercials that brought me back to life. I was on YouTube today and I clicked on a complilation video that popped up on my feed. Do you remember the Get a Mac compaign by Apple?...
“You create a bunch of characters and let them start bouncing into one another. That’s how a good story happens.” –Dennis Lehane Kiyomi spends a bit of time catching up with classmates on a popular show, prompting Takako, Riko and Takeko...
Why not automatically update when the app is quitting? Yes sometimes this is when the computer shuts down, but often it isn’t, especially if the user is aware there is an update. It’s a better experience not to interrupt user journeys.
I especially enjoy films about aviation and airports, so last year when I heard about Indicator's Region A release of OUT OF THE CLOUDS (1955) I promptly ordered it, despite knowing nothing else about it.A British film about an airport...
Beer party, Morrison County, Minnesota, c.1918: From the Oscar Anderson Archives.
It was April or early May and the snow was going or gone. A low wall of fieldstones surrounded the cemetery in Schoharie County, N.Y. – one of those artfully assembled walls that last for centuries in the Northeast. Jack Flavin writes of...
I have a friend who was a pretty prolific guitar teacher. And he used to go to this super-rich guy’s house to teach him lessons. This guy was so rich (how rich is he?) that said friend actually had to go through a service door. Like,...
Hello Walkers— I was watching Silo when one of the characters said: Memory is our internal biography. Information that we’ve hopped up with meaning to tell us who we are. It is science fiction, and the idea is there to serve the plot,...
Anthropic’s “Frontier Red Team”: After reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs where Claude could have obtained internet access, we identified three incidents in which a model accessed the internet from within or while interacting with the...
A light-table gallery... [ in progress... ]
Just read this take from Elad Gil: AI will eat closed loops first AI will first automate away the things that are easier to form a closed loop learning system on. This is why code and AI research may be accelerated and then displaced...
Google Earth project manager Bryan Horowitz: For the first time, you can generate custom images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery alongside Nano Banana, which creates concepts grounded in the real world. Just zoom in...
Obviously, I bought some tat from the Isle of Man. This was limited because I already have so much Manx tat from previous visits, I always buy a couple of Groudle dayglo pencils for example, that I have to work harder to search out the...
Adieu, camarade. Tu auras vecu, véritablement, et peut-être mieux que personne. Farewell, comrade. You truly lived— and lived perhaps better than anyone else.