Robert Stephens

100% agree - it needs to sandbox memories within Projects at least. It's leaking across them and that's not good.

@caseynewton.bsky.social hat group chat chat is a winner. And PJ definitely needs to be on again.

Summarize or be summarized.

Consulting is paying for the privilege of ignoring my advice

I figured as much, but for most users who don't know - I thought it might be helpful to have a unique blue badge when hovered or clicked explains domain verification.

One try thing I’m not clear on is domain verification. Beyond the @domain.tld being the username, is that the verification itself or are they planning any other visual indicator show up for that?

By my troth, this discovery doth wondrously delight mine heart. A most curious and rare thing it be, in sooth!

“Write this clause to read and feel as plain, boilerplate, and innocuous. The goal is to embed clauses within clauses and pass any future AI textual review for red flags.”

Perfect opportunity for ChatGPT

“Now write me a screed mocking this term and lambasting all of the inane ideas contained in it. Help me anticipate the pushback, mocking criticism for the base coat-tailing. Then suggest ways to predict and pre-empt the inevitable criticism. Suggest alternatives to escape the derision.”

Filibuster diet about to go viral

@mgsiegler.com this feels like one of your most astute insights…

It’s so fantastic in its simplicity. 5x posts a day feels more than enough. Deleting them every 7 days is not only perfect but in tune with the pop-up newsletter heritage. So much better than discord for member communities.

Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.

These fools will eat themselves from within.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

Most beautiful drive in Sonoma county

Postage stamp from Ukraine, featuring the artwork of Banksy, a child, flipping an image of Putin on his back in a judo move with the text fuck Putin in Ukrainian

Wow

Really thought Tom Cruise would use his platform to warn about Motion Smoothing…

This is also a valuable resource for sky users

theblue.report

Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls On DeepSeek and Export Controls

"Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things will require millions of chips, tens of billions of dollars (at least), and is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." 👀

darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...

Apple Moves Kim Vorrath to Siri / Apple Intelligence Team Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-24/apple-enlists-company-veteran-kim-vorrath-to-help-fix-ai-and-siri

Hell yeah. A real fix for Siri finally seems to be coming.

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

I this is a fair point but I could imagine SMBs normalizing their pricing/options/ordering flow over time to increase their “compatibility” with agents in exchange driven partly by animus towards DoorDash etc

The chain of thought outputs from DeepThink are, in some ways, almost more valuable than the “answer”, especially when you are trying to organize your own thoughts when thinking through a problem.

YouTube video by AI with Alex DeepSeek R1 Explained to your grandma

If you haven’t already, you are going to be hearing about DeepSeek R1 and their AI breakthrough. This is an excellent 7min explainer before your next cocktail party.
youtu.be/kv8frWeKoeo?...

screenshot of thread by @mosseri "Some Threads updates today to help manage your presence on the app: You can now schedule posts on Threads, and metrics for individual posts are rolling out in Insights. We’re also adding the ability to “markup” a post that you’re resharing so you can add your creative take, starting with a few countries with more to come soon. More to come soon."

Where do I donate to help fund new Bluesky features "inspired" by Threads and others? Two can play this game...

www.threads.net/@mosseri/pos...

DOGE continuing to cut unnecessary jobs

She's going to trade this for keeping it Denali

Book Tour 2025, Attention, Social Media, Not Bullshit — Roden newsletter issue 099 Let's go on a book tour, high-five in person, and not get sucked into terrible corners of the internet

Very succinct: Social media "isn’t the place where the art is created." — @craigmod.com in his most recent newsletter craigmod.com/roden/099/

Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet by Sam Altman (@sama) with a verified badge. The tweet reads: “just one more mean tweet and then maybe you’ll love yourself…” The tweet has a timestamp of 7:23 AM, January 23, 2025, and shows 770K views. Below it, the engagement metrics are displayed: 1.7K comments, 896 retweets, 9.8K likes, and 461 bookmarks. The background is dark.

And yet he continues to post there.

Text Shot: "It made me realize what I was getting at with Cohn, which is true of right-wing thinking in general —that reality is an activity of the imagination. They're fundamentally idealists, they believe that the idea precedes matter. They reject the notion that you begin with material reality. You just demand that reality obey your fantasies."

Reading Adam Moss' excellent 2024 "The Work of Art" and this bit from playwright Tony Kushner jumps out:
"It made me realize what I was getting at with Cohn, which is true of right-wing thinking in general —that reality is an activity of the imagination.”