Nathan Pitman

Weeknote!
🎮 What Apple Games needs to work – and why it won’t
🤖 We need more nuance in AI discussion
👨‍💼 Unless it’s about Nick Clegg
💬 I asked ChatGPT to be Jimmy Carr
🌎 Arc Browser is dead (as is goodwill to its makers)
☁️ Bluesky is dying
💥 The Phoenix hits 700

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Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…

Physical buttons are finally coming back to cars. 🤌

It’s not just an aesthetic choice, though—it’s a safety-conscious one. Research shows that reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high.

The treasure logo screen was the best.

Any old skool web peeps remember when we used to stage live redesigns of our blogs? #thegoodolddays

“OpenAI admits to using copyright content (without permission) to train models”

“OpenAI upset that China used its model to train DeepSeek”

🤔

An iPad version of this would be delightful. Looks great!

Electrify the cable when it’s tampered with? 😱

Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal Trailer Gives First Official Look At The New Console The wait is over!

Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal Trailer Gives First Official Look At The New Console.

If this is true, it would open up the console to a whole bunch of new game types. Can someone please convince Atari to release Transport Tycoon on the Switch2!

Next step… robot vacs with an arm that can be used to drag itself up the stairs or clean toilets for me?

Hate it. Want one.

Apple Intelligence falsely claims Luke Littler won darts final An AI-generated notification says the teen has won the tournament before the final is even played.

“A BBC spokesperson said: ‘It is essential that Apple fixes this problem urgently’”

Thing is, Apple can’t. No company can ‘fix’ errors going out in AI summaries, because they’re fancy autocomplete. AI doesn’t understand information and context.

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25 years on, the engineer behind the first Mac OSX dock tells all.

What a story!

Thank you for sharing it, @jamesthomson.bsky.social. (And thanks for Dragthing. I think of it often!)

Fantastic. Love this kind of software history. Fell down a rabbit hole there learning all about Copland etc.

What the actual …

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.

Some set up! ❤️

It's Friday. Can you beat my high score on "ANT or DEC."

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Managed 850. Tough game!

Absolutely love this album. So many great tracks and memories from the 90’s.

Didn’t know that, good to know!

What a wonderful tribute. ❤️

Not cheap to buy 2nd hand!!!

The Sony PlayStation at 30 – and six of the best PS1 games to try | Stuff This console added an extra dimension to gaming – almost literally. It’s fair to say the Sony PlayStation changed gaming forever

Sorry, folks, but I’m here to make you feel old again, with another #retrogaming piece for @stufftv.bsky.social:

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I had completely forgotten about Vib Ribbon! Off to replenish that into my retro collection right now.

You can’t talk about coin op conversions for the Mega Drive without mentioning Virtua Racing. A game we all salivated over in the arcades and then by some 90’s magic (thanks SVP!) could purchase and play on our 16 bit home consoles just two years later.

YouTube video by Tracklib Sample Breakdown: The Avalanches - Since I Left You

One of my faves…

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Fed up of the feed algorithm on Threads so here I am.

Love this. I have similar folders. Not sure many of them are still live and I think it would take me an indescribable amount of effort to make any of them work locally. Good memory triggers though.