I haven’t seen the details but apparently Apple may not be paying OpenAI for the ChatGPT functionality. So macOS may not be using ChatGPT heavily.

Facebook conspiracy theorist grannies suggest that employment isn’t required.

Yeah, I’m not going to believe anything out of OpenAI that isn’t produced as part of discovery.

So who is going to be first to set up a grifty EA think tank where the thinking is admittedly all done by LLMs, and why shouldn’t it be us.

Shirley Manson or GTFO. But I don’t think they’d like her.

One wonders if one of those ready to go apps in Slack is a Slack app that runs inside of Slack.

Could be worse, they could be English.

Frankly I’d be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.

Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?

Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.

Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It’d be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. “KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!”

Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think that’s calling NASA Hamilton a witch.

Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.

“Cathedral Central”

I hate ‘edge’ in its new form as pseudotechnical marketing guff. Frex, “AI-driven MCU market surge sparks innovation in global and Chinese firms for edge AI”

Oh dear.

“The overriding gist of the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple brought to mind, for DF reader E.G., Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Despite being an enormous Vonnegut fan, I couldn’t recall reading it before. It’s so apt. As E.G. quipped in his email to me, “Only in making all products, services, and experiences equally bad, will we have equality and fairness.””

All you need to know about Gruber is in this claim of his about phone photography, in a critique of a NY Times tech journalist who deigned to acknowledge that readers could just use flash to get better low-light photos:

A mainstream technology columnist should be explaining to readers why they should not use flash, and how best to capture low-light photographs without it. “You could always just use flash” is technology malpractice.

In reality, a mainstream technology columnist’s job isn’t to encourage readers to cough up hundreds of dollars to buy the newest phone for the sake of something that might be of negligible importance to most of them.

Gruber clearly thinks his job is to always encourage readers to buy the latest Apple phone. At least when his job isn’t to sniff his own farts.

Flash is also technology! Most photography and videography is done using artificial light! There aren’t many people walking around with spy satellite lenses like fucking Kubrick to do natural light camera work.

Also I think he’s a bit of a fancy watch douchebag.

He’s ensconced in Hungary nursing on Orban’s teat and producing flattering nonsense.

“Children’s website launched by inmates” ought to be the end of it.

Where are they going to find 500 people in India who are good at solving cold fusion and will do it for pennies.

Car Seats as Contraception

At first I thought this was about how bench seats have just about vanished.

• came in a deck of cards

“On my Substack I am doing non-ideological, data-driven reporting!”

I don’t believe the son of pro-gun propagandist John Lott is capable of doing non-ideological reporting.