Front picture of the Astell&Kern SP3000T
Back picture of the Astell&Kern SP3000T with the vacuum tube.
Just discovered this new (to me) Portable Audio Player from Astell&Kern with an integrated real vacuum tube: SP3000T.
Totally beautiful. Totally out of reach.
04.03.2026 13:47
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This thing βbuilding reliable, beautiful, distinctive and valuableβ software is not easyβ¦
04.03.2026 13:25
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An article stating that OpenAI will change how its technology is used with the US Gov.
Yeah right !!! Too late.
03.03.2026 21:11
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Mirror to you.
03.03.2026 15:21
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Indeed. But in the end Iβm left asking myself what will happen in the scenario that still seems disturbingly likely β that GPT models will in fact be used as part of surveillance and drone operations. Will it put up a blog post to explain that, well actually, thatβs a lawful kind of surveillance? Do an AMA about how, despite how it may look, that autonomous drone swarm had proper human supervision? OpenAI does enough polling to understand that Americans already distrust and even openly loathe AI, even as they increasingly turn to it for work and school. How does it think Americans will feel when GPT models are powering ICE raids or causing civilian casualties in wars abroad?
The company may have tied its own hands. In the end, the truth about US military operations always seems to come out one way or another. And when it does, I suspect the βall lawful useβ standard that OpenAI agreed to will have permitted a far wider range of operations than we are now being told are possible.
Sam Altman's deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. So what happens when the truth inevitably comes out? www.platformer.news/openai-penta...
03.03.2026 02:17
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"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.
Jack Dorsey is copying the 2023 leadership framework:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of AI productivity gains
- stock go up
The layoff victims were some of the most productive, AI-pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what it was about.
01.03.2026 18:58
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This is exactly why I have uninstalled ChatGPT / all OpenAI apps from my devices.
02.03.2026 13:13
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I'm a game design genius
01.03.2026 05:03
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Claude is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM
28.02.2026 00:30
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Is the Block massive layoff (4K on 10K employees) the new upcoming trend?. Is AI the real culprit or the excuse. Iβm getting worried.
27.02.2026 12:45
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Welcome to the future
27.02.2026 01:52
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Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half
Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.
Block (Square & Cash app maker) is laying off 4.000 of its 10,000 employees as part of an effort to "move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work."
I've talked about this being the trend across big tech but this is even more drastic than I expected.
26.02.2026 23:07
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Thanks. Let me retry that. That is really nice. π
25.02.2026 13:56
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All I see is a flip between βRemote control activeβ and βRemote control reconnectingβ
25.02.2026 13:48
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Interesting! I see the QR Code. But I want to connect it to the Claude iOS app. π€
Can I do this directly?
25.02.2026 13:45
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Do you have my feed? π
25.02.2026 13:37
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What about Proton Pass?
24.02.2026 19:34
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Summer Yue, a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs working on AI safety and alignment, shared how OpenClaw ignored requests to confirm before acting and deleted emails from their inbox.
This is the same technology the Pentagon canβt wait to use to build weapons.
24.02.2026 16:38
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Thatβs the key: βSequoiaβ
21.02.2026 15:26
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I have never seen this many clones of my apps. I guess app dev really is over.
20.02.2026 19:14
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I personally think biathlon is way more interesting where your position can be destroyed at the shooting range. But thatβs a different sport altogether.
20.02.2026 12:26
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Olympics Ski Mountaineering debut: I find it way less interesting than expected. π€
20.02.2026 12:14
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Welcome to Reef Island β Reef Island
An introduction to this blog β what to expect, why it exists, and what drives the journey through software development.
I wrote the first one, the first post.
That took way longer than anticipated. Not the post but the structure to support the post.
Have a read - Enjoy the island.
reefisland.blog/blog/welcome...
18.02.2026 21:13
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Iβm totally biased but this thing *rocks* !!!
16.02.2026 19:50
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