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This is very funny, but also a good indication of just how far away these things … The Infinite Loop of One LLM Talking to AnotherRead more

Peter Kafka, writing at Business Insider: And last: It’s possible that Middle Eastern countries are investing … Pondering Middle East Petrostates as American Media OwnersRead more

Paris Buttfield-Addison: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence … Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple Account Is in Kafka ModeRead more

Six-minute segment from Amazon’s AWS re:Invent keynote last week: Payam Mirrashidi, VP, Cloud Systems & Platforms, … Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 KeynoteRead more

Youki Terada, writing for Edutopia in 2022 (via Jens Kutílek): Under close scrutiny, the evidence for … Special Dyslexia Fonts Are Based on Voodoo PseudoscienceRead more

Small follow-up point re: my post this week on iMessage’s delivery architecture being built atop the … iMessage Doesn’t Use APNs for AttachmentsRead more

Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of … Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown ChristmasRead more

OpenAI: In ChatGPT, GPT‑5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro will begin rolling out today, starting with paid … OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2Read more

Still Life with Plaster Head, 1947 by Vanessa Bell. Oil on board. 53.5 44.5 cm. Estate … Excerpts from The Believer: Vanessa Bell Is Not at HomeRead more

Honestly, I don’t know to whom this letter is directed. God? Harvard? (I’m taking a deep, … I’m the Ponytail Guy from Good Will Hunting, and I Can’t Enjoy Fries AnymoreRead more