Likes The Mark One Refill Guide.
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Likes Viva la Library! – Nautilus by .
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Likes War Rooms and Peace Rooms by .
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Contrary to what Imran, Ken, and I’m sure many others at Humane believe, the iPhone didn’t begin with their work in the 2000’s on Project Purple. It began in 1976 with the Apple computer, and the decades of goodwill it built up in consumers. The project was spearheaded by a guy ready to waste billions in iPod revenue if it helped achieve his vision, and he answered to nobody. It came together at the perfect point in time, when everyone knew the power of the Internet, but there wasn’t a way to carry the whole experience in your pocket. You can’t replicate all these factors in a few years, no matter how much money a VC throws at you.
h/t Zeldman
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I love this insulator imagery!
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Likes How to build a tiny language model by .
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Likes A weekly note by .
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Likes Home – Asian Food Dictionary.
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New conspiracy theory dropped. They think the Egyptians made artificial granite to build the pyramids.
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Likes IndieWeb Principles Poster by .
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Likes Blogroll.
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Looking forward to being able to more easily modify output from blocks and switch the data sources.
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Loving seeing Jon progress in his carving.
The truth is that when I’ve focused on side projects I care about, doors have opened, and opportunities have presented themselves.
This. 💯
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Likes Weeknotes 12.
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TIL: Whales used to have legs and couldn’t swim.
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Likes How do you verify that? by .
the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking
h/t Jim Nielsen
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Likes Squiggle – Bantam Tools.
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“Most AI images look like shit. AI “artists” are quick to lecture me that generative tools are improving every day and what they spit out won’t always look this way – I think that’s beside the point. What makes AI imagery so lousy isn’t the technology itself, but the cliché and superficial creative ambitions of those who use it. A video of a cyber-punk jellyfish or a collie in sunglasses on a skateboard generated by Open AI’s new video-to-text model Sora aren’t bad because the animals in them look unrealistic; they’re bad because they’re mind-numbingly stupid. AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.”
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Likes Share Openly by .
Ben Werdmuller is making a new post sharing tool. Following.
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Likes My Eleventy site setup by .
I like when folks explain their website setups. More posts like this, please!
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Likes Choose optimism by .
To be an optimist, adopt these assumptions:
- The future can be great
- People’s intentions are mostly good
- Ideas are fragile and need nurturing
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Likes Web3 is Self-Certifying. There’s been a lot of discussion lately… | by Jay Graber | Medium by .
I like this description of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, from Jay Graber (CEO of Bluesky):
the hosted web, the posted web, and the signed web
So clear, concise, and almost poetic.
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Wild story of someone who used an old law to stay in a NYC hotel room for free for 5 years.
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Some quotes from Cowen on internet writing from the episode:
Well, Internet writing, it’s not a discipline, but it’s a sphere, and plenty of it happens more than ever before. But it’s segregated from what counts as original theorizing in the academic sense of that word. Is that a good or bad segregation? I’m not sure, but it’s really a very sharp, radical break from how things had been. And it’s why I don’t think there’ll be a new GOAT contender. Probably not ever. Or if there is, it will be something AI-related.
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The discipline ceased to matter. That really good Internet writing is multidisciplinary. When I meet someone like a Scott Aronson, who’s doing, like, computer science, AI type Internet writing on his blog, I have way more in common with him than with a typical research economist, say, at Boston University. And it’s not because I know enough about computer science, like I may or may not know a certain amount, but it’s because our two enterprises are so similar. Or Scott Alexander, he writes about mental illness also. That just feels so similar, and we really have to rethink what the disciplines are. It may be that the method of writing is the key differentiator for this particular sphere, not for everything.
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At the margin, I would like to see more people raised on Marginal Revolution. I don’t just mean that in a selfish way. Regarding the internet writing mode of thinking, I would like to see more economists and research scientists raised on it, but the number may be higher than we think. If I hadn’t run Emergent Ventures, I wouldn’t know about Basil, per se, maybe would not have met him. And it’s infectious, so it might always be a minority, but it will be the people most likely to have new ideas. It’s a very powerful new mode of thought, which I’ll call the Internet way of writing and thinking. And it’s not sufficiently recognized as something like a new field or discipline, but that’s what it is.
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Twitter thread from Orion Reed on turning a regular ol’ website into an interactive canvas.
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Likes A weekly note by .
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The Peekskill Herald has been putting out some hard hitting articles recently. Love it.
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Likes Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence by .
Brubeck et al’s unicorn experiment. An unintended consequence of putting safety limitations on GPT-4 is that it became less visually creative.
Eventually, it started to degrade. Once they started to train for more safety, the unicorn started to degrade. So tonight if you go home and you ask GPT-4 and ChatGPT to draw a unicorn in TiKZ, you’re going to get something that doesn’t look great.
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Likes infinite backrooms.
This is fascinating. I love the whimsical games and art. It is hard not to read into it a sense of a mind at play.
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Likes The Stupidest CSS – Dan Q.
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