Joys of camping: book spot one year out, battle traffic for hours, pull into a packed parking lot with trees, listen to kids complain about crap internet, fall asleep early exhausted, wake 1 am 2 am then 3 am, fall down in the dark trying to pee, up at 5 am, leave early after kids threaten mutiny.
Just got GPT-5 and the first test (oddly I know) is whether voice mode can speak in Spanglish. Passed with flying colors, switching back and forth flawlessly for the first time.
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Then when you need to do it again the app will be logged out and you’ll need to do a password reset 😅
The Niche Machine is here. We are now not just seeing AI slop about current events and natural disasters, we are seeing hyperpersonalized AI slop that combines "news" and disinformation with any interest / celebrity / hobby you could possibly imagine
www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...
“We have never graduated coders. We have always graduated software engineers.” www.geekwire.com/2025/coding-...
@theverge.com Hey how can I tell on mobile web which story is free and which is premium?
Of course it did. And there will be more reports like this. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
New startup: CAPTCHA fact-checker
Amazing how much CGI looks Ike AI now.
Almost as cool as your Google RSS reader RIP 😏
Seattle is at risk of becoming an “old tech” town — nearly all AI innovation is squarely back in Silicon Valley/SF. Microsoft is powering a big part of it, but faces increasing risks as AI upends software ecosystems. Amazon… ugh… had a huge head start with Alexa, and now…?
Microsoft cuts people to help offset the high cost of AI data centers. Then as AI gets even better, it will cut more people. Double whammy for tech workers.
Worst Father's Day JCPenney ad photos ever.
Fascinating data point from Cloudflare’s CEO: click rates to AI source citations are plummeting because people trust the results more. In a ratio of pages scraped to search visitors, OpenAI was 250:1 six months ago, now 1500:1. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5C9...
A moderately common event is someone confidently tells me that LLMs can't solve their specific puzzle, I whack it in o3, it spins up a python programme that solves it in 12 seconds, and it turns out the person had only ever tested it on the free versions of ChatGPT and Grok
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
Good overview of how AI is playing a larger roll in elections — for better or worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...
Unsurprising — and as AI makes it easier to get the news, fewer Americans will pay (at least directly).
Screenshot of a tweet by Tobi Lutke (@tobi) posted on June 19, 2025, at 6:01 AM. The tweet reads: "I really like the term 'context engineering' over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM."
I like this. Context engineering.
News orgs that wait for users to tell them they want AI will be too late to the game. Summaries are a no brainer and good starting point.
Not a fan of these kinds of user surveys. Reducing information friction is always popular if you design it well. Users struggle to articulate features — or even recognize that AI is at play. Anti-AI fears skew numbers, too. 1/2
When someone is talking with their AI in voice mode, it’s rude to interrupt. 😏
👎👎👎 OKC 👎👎👎 #Sonics
We as a community are rooting for Indy and not this dishonorable basketball, yes?
What is up with all the Achilles injuries in the NBA? Can’t remember it happening this often over the years. #nbasky
Completely agree, and feeds and lists don’t help when there’s so little niche content to begin with. If engagement mostly rewards political posts, there’s not much incentive to post anything else. The architecture invites content diversity but the culture discourages it.
Excellent thread 💯
NEW from me and @thiccreese.bsky.social: Disney is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, but Midjourney's new video tool still produces animations of some Disney characters (including stuff like Wall-E with a gun or Yoda smoking weed): www.wired.com/story/midjou...
