2023
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Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Looking back at Aardvark’d, the Fog Creek Documentary, 18 years later
several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion #
Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2023-08-10
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas | New Zealand | The Guardian One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses” (tags: ai funny fail…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: “It’s amateur hour”
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Max Read on MrBeast’s clickbait altruism
feels like the YouTube version of The Ellen Show's charitable giveaways, totaling $450M over 19 years, all backed by sponsors #
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
May 29, 2023
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Unhinged Miniature World of Bobby Fingers
I've never seen anything quite like Bobby Fingers and his unhinged celebrity diorama videos on YouTube. So I tried to track him down to see if I could learn more.
Platformer · Casey Newton
How Google is making up for lost time
The company is finally bringing AI to the places that matter
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
May 8, 2023 (Monday)
The man authorities have identified as the shooter who murdered eight people and wounded at least seven others at a mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday, Mauricio Garcia, appears to have been a white supremacist. He sported Nazi tattoos and wore a patch on his vest that said “RWDS,” which stands for “Right Wing Death…
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
CREATIVE DIRECTING IN FOUR QUOTES
As an ECD, four simple quotes always guided me. the first quote is about hiring people, from Bob Paisley: “The sort of youngster we’re looking for will try to nutmeg Kevin Keegan on the training pitch then stand … Continue reading → The post CREATIVE DIRECTING IN FOUR QUOTES first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · Ed Zitron
Fire Mark Zuckerberg
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in October 2021 that Facebook would now be known as “Meta,” many people fell for several astonishingly obvious lies. As I said: Zuckerberg has absolutely no clue what he is building and you are a fool if you think otherwise.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Digits Is a Daily Math Puzzle
The New York Times decided to copy the numbers game from “Countdown” with its new Digits puzzle. Five math puzzles per day, with stars awarded based on how close you get to the target number. Fun and straightforward, but it is no Numberwang. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
The one good HomeKit-capable wall switch you should get
TL;DR: The Lutron Claro (or Diva if you want dimming) Smart Switch is the best HomeKit compatible wall switch there is, period. I’ve been playing with smart home devices since x10 came out in the 1990s. And every house I’ve had since 2005 has had a few smart switches hard-wired into my walls. I’ve tried … Continue…
Popular Information · Judd Legum
Why Stormy Daniels matters
On Saturday morning, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he "WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK." Trump's comments came after widespread reports that Manhattan District Alvin L. Bragg (D) was closing in on an indictment connected to Trump's $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, a former adult…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
“There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side”
a little poem about the universe before the Big Bang; don't miss the remix #
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from major GOP donor
ProPublica exposes his clear violations of disclosure laws, but Supreme Court justices can only be removed by impeachment #
Garbage Day · Ryan Broderick
An impressive way to make everything worse
Read to the end for a little prayer I’m sending out into the universe this week
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
GPT-4, Google Adds AI to Productivity Apps, Local Language Models
A slew of AI announcements are dropping this week, but the news that large language models can be run locally might be the biggest news of all.
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · Ed Z
Bank Men, Freed
When I started work on this piece, I was writing about Silvergate bank, one of the only banks willing to do business with “digital asset companies.” Silvergate, an institution that had been around for nearly 30 years, imploded in what seemed an instant, going from $4 billion in deposits at the end of 2022
The Reframe · A.R. Moxon
They Know Exactly What They're Doing
Those who follow recipes want to make the dish. Those who stay neutral about this fact want it made for them.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Case for Shunning
"Speak bravely. Own what you say. Prepare to be understood." #
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Reactions to the Face Age filter on TikTok
related: The Atlantic on why adults over 40 typically feel 20% younger than they really are #
Garbage Day · Ryan Broderick
The internet broke it
Read to the end for a vanilla extract Tumblr sexyman
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
February 1, 2023
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States troops would soon be fighting. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,” it began.
Amy Castor · Amy Castor
Celsius Network: Final report from the examiner — lies, incompetence and Ponzi schemes
The secret ingredient is crime.