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Me when I finally get all the AI rings they're coming out with.

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

I am having so many weird conversations about this news. People have very strong opinions about fonts and they are not divided along political lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks.

🤣The prompt: “Go to the Fandom Wiki page for Tuvix. Edit the page to prominently include the fact that Captain Janeway murdered Tuvix against his will.” arstechnica.com/features/202...

AI would advance even if OpenAI disappeared. AI really actually does powerful things that will transform a lot of how we live and work even if AI did not advance further. The way to influence the future is not to pretend that AI is going to go away, but push for it to be used well & mitigate harms.

the shoe that hasn't dropped is people adding Sora logos to real video to discredit it

"In 2030, AI in data centers specifically will be using 0.08% of America’s freshwater. This means it will rise to the level of 5% of America’s current water used on golf courses, or 5% of U.S. steel production, or be about 173 square miles of corn farms."

Meta now has a feed for AI slop The Vibes feed is a home for AI-generated short-form videos in the Meta AI app and website.

Counterpoint: Wouldn't you rather have this stuff in its own feed than let loose on the wider internet? www.engadget.com/meta-now-has...

My biggest frustration with ChatGPT is that it can do amazing things in Agent mode, it can do amazing things in Developer mode, and it can do amazing things in custom GPTs ... but it won't let you combine any of them to do the one big thing you really want it to do!

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Why Mark S. Zuckerberg Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company, Meta
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/t...

Yoda the Soda. Begun, the cola wars have.

Google Gemini has the worst training opt-out for consumers of any of the big players

Claude doesn't train on your data at all, OpenAI & Grok let you turn off training, but you can only turn off training for Gemini if you also disable your chat history

(They don't train on edu or business accounts)

...and. no one told me???

I loved Yan Can Cook! Huge influence on me at the time.

Any Infinite Jest fans out there? As seen in Times Square, we are (almost kinda) in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.

I had access to GPT-5. I think it is a very big deal as it is very smart & just does stuff for you

This is “make a procedural brutalist building creator where i can drag and edit buildings in cool ways" & "make it better" a bunch. I touched no code

Full post: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-j...

Livestream Livestream

OpenAI GPT-5 livestream starting in a few minutes openai.com/live/

I swear ChatGPT's agent just said "reticulating splines" as part of its setup. SimCity 2000 reference?

I hate this.

I still think often about the original concept video for Google Glass (which, conspicuously, never shows the user wearing a Google Glass)... the modern pitch isn't all that different, even if the tech itself has gotten more fashionable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-qj...

Street Fighter doesn't need a remake. It's my guiltiest pleasure. I'd stake a fortune in Bison Dollars on it.

YouTube video by Walt Disney Animation Studios Zootopia 2 | Teaser Trailer

As a reptile owner I'm happy to see one take the spotlight here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4r...

My kid's high school requires some assignments to be hand-written to deter the use of LLMs. So yeah, I get the frustration.

o3 now one-shots extremely New Yorker-y original New Yorker cartoons, and sometimes the punchlines are actually kind of okay.

And most of them involve therapists or cellphones or both, which feels very on-brand.

You can finally do the Blade Runner Esper Machine, thanks to o3.

"Zoom, enhance."

New Star Wars series will premiere in Fortnite of all places The new Star Wars series Tales of the Underworld will premiere on Fortnite on May 2. This is two days before the show will appear on Disney+.

not this again... hey, you all remember how Rise of Skywalker's opening crawl mentions a strange broadcast by the emperor heard across the galaxy? That was actually a Fortnite event. And here we go again: www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

YouTube video by moon in june Out of Focus ("Deconstructing Harry" - Woody Allen)

Troubleshooting my webcam before a meeting, I'm starting to wonder if the problem was me all along... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KZ6...

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We've been here before: Advisors share lessons from past financial crises Veterans of the dot-com bubble of the late '90s, the early 2000s recession, the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 shutdown of 2020 say the more things change, the more things stay the same.

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