Jean-Louis Gassée, who used to run Apple France, describes this situation as the choice of the two tokens. When you deal with people who have trouble, you can either choose to taken the token that says “it’s no big deal” or the token that says “it’s the end of the world”. Whichever token you pick, they’ll take the other.
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Overall, the West is kind of interesting to me, and I think it shows up in this record — the idea that you might find some peace in these wide open spaces, but you usually end up bringing your own problems with you.
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Cool USDA Forest Service ax manual. h/t Cool Tools
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Likes I’m not eating my own dog food by .
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I like this in the sense that I appreciate Ryan writing about it, and I love Bridgy. I don’t like this in the sense that Twitter’s API changes are a shitshow.
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Likes A weekly note by .
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Likes WordPress AI: Generative Content & Blocks by .
I don’t often stop and say “Woah” when I see WordPress demos, but I did with this one. I can’t wait to use something like this at work.
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Likes Notes on Progress: Artificial flavoring by .
“natural” vs “artificial” meat and how it compares to freezer-made ice vs pond ice
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Likes Building an Interactive Blog Map by .
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Likes IndieBlocks 0.6.2 Released by .
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Make sure to re-open Tweetbot or Twitterrific and select the “I don’t need a refund” option!
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This is pretty close to where I live. Very cool to see seals coming this far up the river.
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Cool to see my art in a WPTavern article!
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It blew my mind when a coworker mentioned how his home country of Costa Rica has narrative-style addresses.
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Use 1Password for Business? You can get a free 1Password Families membership, too, even if you already have an existing Families membership. h/t Chandler Weiner
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Gwern’s take on Bing AI vs OpenAI.
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This is wild. Maybe we don’t want AI after all. Especially not one trained on human social media. Maybe Eliezer has been right all along.