Jason Aten

More than 15 years after I sold it, and several years of trying to track it down, I got to boot up the very first Mac I ever owned—a G4 PoweBook Titanium. It’s a wild story but it still runs FCP like a champ :)

I have no idea but thanks for mentioning it. I’ll check it out!

LEGO Built 10 Life-Size F1 Cars. Then the Drivers Took Them for a Lap at the Miami Grand Prix It took 22,000 hours using 4 million bricks to pull off this epic build.

LEGO built 10 life-size F1 cars and the drivers took them for a lap at the Miami Grand Prix

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This is not great for Apple. People who were going to buy one anyway but might have waited for the 17, are pulling forward those purchases, which will likely mean suppressed demand for the next generation. If prices do go up it’ll be a double whammy.

I’ve had 5 different people reach out today asking which iPhone to buy because they were getting one today before tariffs kick in, assuming Apple will have to raise prices soon.

‘Starbucks Monday’ Means Free Coffee After the Super Bowl. It Might Be the Company’s Smartest Idea Yet Get a free cup of coffee on Monday if you're a Rewards member.

Don’t forget your free coffee
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This score bug is just so bad.

ChatGPT Search Made Me Quit Google for Good It's not perfect, but ChatGPT Search is now my default way to find information.

Here's the article where I talked about switching my default search to ChatGPT from Google:

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Inside the AI web search wars - Marketplace AI-powered Google competitors are trying to figure out how to grab search revenue without losing users who are wary of advertising.

Went on NPR's @marketplace.org this week to talk about AI, Search, and the Deepseek saga.

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Netflix Isn’t Worth $25 A Month, And It Seems Like Even Netflix Agrees Last week, Netflix announced its earnings results for the fourth quarter of 2024. It was a very good quarter with record subscriber growth and revenue,

I just keep thinking that Netflix was at its best from like 2015 through 2017, which also happens to be the last time you could subscribe (not including ads) for less than $10
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Apple Intelligence with another totally inaccurate notification summary (though it was very flattering, at least)

Apple notification summaries with another example of why this is such a terrible terrible idea. Come on Apple.

That’s plenty.

Bravo

TikTok brings itself back to life because… laws don’t actually matter I guess.

Elsewhere, you still can’t download it from the App Store though.

The article doesn’t say anything about boycotting Starbucks

Mashable is out here pushing a refurb i5 MacBook Pro as the “same power and style” as a 14-inch M4 and I know it’s just sponsored content but this is how websites burn whatever credibility they have left.

Just over here with my friend @stephenrobles on our little podcast giving you a look into the future.

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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban-or-sale law slated to start Sunday Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.

A reminder that the Supreme Court upholding the law Congress passed to ban TikTok is the most normal, unsurprising part of this whole circus.

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Had a dream last night that we went on a trip and accidentally left our dog Bailey home and she had to fend off burglars “Home Alone” style and I keep thinking if that were a movie it would be better than at least 2 of the ones they actually made.

Insanity

My 10-year-old and I have a weird trash talk going on via calendar invites.

We do not censor social media, EU says in response to Meta The European Commission rejected on Wednesday Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg's assertion that European Union data laws censored social media and said they only required large platforms to remove illegal content.

I am probably missing something, but isn't making some types of content illegal, the literal definition of censorship?

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Slack going hard with the scare tactics.

It’s like the purge only instead of killing your family they bring you baked goods

The plot thickens

We should definitely play a game called “guess what the notifications actually said before Siri summarized them into your worst nightmare”

This notification summary isn’t problematic at all.

Wild the FBI thinks tech companies should build back door into device encryption when the Salt Typhoon hack is literally using the wiretap backdoor in telecoms.

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-fbis-dire-warning-about-your-messaging-apps-leaves-out-1-important-point/91034903