Daniel Cormier

Thanks! I hope you have, too.

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

It isn't.

I haven't met him.

Well, I'm Daniel Cormier, and Jon Jones is my friend.
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Why do you say that?

You must not know Jon.

Why wouldn't they be?

He's a good guy. He likes cats and makes ramen.

Well, I'm Daniel Cormier, and that's my friend Jon Jones.

What do you mean?

Happy birthday, @jonjones.bsky.social!

I _hate_ this about iPhones. I just want notifications and phone calls muted. That's why I still have media volume up.

Mr. Rogers.

Waldo.

Waldo.

Beeeaaaan

Bacon bean.

Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

I would play this.

Why the quotes?

🐁: “How can I be tall like you?”

🦒 “Everyday I rub some oil on my neck and it starts growing.”

A few weeks later…

🐁: “I tried your suggestion and it didn’t work!”

🦒: “What did you use?”

🐁: “Crisco.”

🦒: “Of course that doesn’t work, silly. That’s shortening.”

This is the stupidest timeline.

Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z), everybody.

I'd happily buy a $130 Glif. I was just recently looking for something like that, and wasn't very excited by what I found.

They haven't run this already?

History is written by the victors, sadly.

11 AM PDT. We're in Daylight Saving Time.