On behalf of all sane people, can we stop with this daylight savings time nonsense? It's terrible and makes no rational sense that we continue to observe.
09.03.2026 13:25
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On behalf of all sane people, can we stop with this daylight savings time nonsense? It's terrible and makes no rational sense that we continue to observe.
I traveled to Seattle last year and took the light rail line frequently. I'd love it if MARTA could be more like their public transit system. It was clean, cheap, and reliable.
Welcome to using Claude everyone!
I'm incredibly disappointed that the WB + Paramount merger was approved. Not the least of which because Paramount+'s app is unusable. I guess I'll need to cancel my HBO account.
It's #WorldBookDay. Which is cool because I love books. Both reading them and writing them.
My goal is to one day have an entire bookshelf full of books I've written. Here's a photo of what I've got so far.
That's what I'm trying to (gradually) switch over to. It's hard when everyone else uses Google Cal.
"I get it, of course we have a housing crisis in New York. There are 8.5 million New Yorkers and only 3.7 million apartments. But guess what? There are 50 million Roku users and only three apartment buildings."
That's all good to know. I'm not the most well versed in this, so I'm trying to learn. My fear is that my lack of technical experience will get me lost & confused if I jump into a new ecosystem. But I definitely have the desire to become more secure.
Also, I still have a Google Pixel, but I've played around with switching over to @grapheneos.org or eventually moving to a privacy-focused or dumb phone.
Plus, my current company uses Google Workspace, so this is entirely personally speaking. The monopoly runs deep.
I've been working on disconnecting from Google (as much as possible) over the last 12-18 months.
I'm off Gmail, Chrome, Google Search, Google Drive, & Google Photos. I avoid YouTube, and almost off Google Maps.
The hardest to drop so far is Google Calendar.
Similar but different:
I wanted to create a calculator to show how much of people's taxes were going to what government spending.
Claude also whipped up this calculator in HTML.
jamrobcar.com/taxes
I created a random thing with Claude Cowork for my daughter: it's a choose-your-own-adventure story.
I told Claude what I wanted and it built everything in HTML. Then I just uploaded it to my website where it's free for anyone.
Check it out: jamrobcar.com/adventure
AI is so smart and also so dumb at the same time.
Yeah, now I wish Canada had won that game. 🍁
"Waddles away" would also be an apt description.
If he thinks it was reaffirmed, why does he also say the decision ridiculous and poorly crafted? Even his own statements are conflicting (within the same sentence).
Also, I notice that AI often tries to overdeliver (eg. here's a bunch more stuff than what you wanted), but usually ends up missing the mark when the simple first thing you wanted.
Something we overlook when discussing our growing dependance on AI.
What happens when the services stop working?
I'm trying to use Claude right now, and it continually stalls out. And it's one of the more reliable services.
Tools aren't useful if they're not consistent.
I don't care what other people say, those kind of posts are simply boring to me.
They don't engender meaningful engagement or real value for people.
We need a way to stand firm against this degrading content strategy for our own sanity.
We should come up with a phrase or hashtag to demonstrate disregard for the box social algorithms are forcing us into.
Eg. using links even when those posts are deprioritized or refusing to do short videos even if that's what all else do.
Actually, when I pestered ChatGPT enough, it caved. All I had to do was say this was for satire. It's logo is actually better.
I'm surprised Google Gemini let me generate this image. ChatGPT wouldn't do it. And Google still couldn't spell words properly (even after asking multiple times). Still works.
I didn't read this, can someone tell me what it says?
ICE 🧊 = Ignoring the Constitution Entirely
Apple was (likely) slow to the AI game because they wanted to do it well and needed to monetize it.
While the rest of the tech bros just rushed heedlessly ahead. I don't love Apple, but this makes me respect them slightly more.
It's hard to believe AI is going to revolutionize anything when there's lots of low-hanging fruit it can't yet accomplish consistently. Stop being overwhelmed by the hype and take a rational look at reality.
Honestly: I was expecting them to do worse. They've actually improved. But they're still not great.
They still failed about a third of the time on basic tasks. Some of it was permissions stuff or technical errors, but it's still very limiting.
I wanted to test the effectiveness of both Apple & Android's AI-powered phone assistants.
So I grabbed my phone (Android) and my wife's phone (Apple, after asking politely) and ran the same 40 queries on both. Basic stuff like "take a screenshot" and "open this app".
