Cryday

The price is right.

Haven’t figured out lighting yet, but I like the idea

After struggling for days to make my new Epson FF-680W photo scanner, which does a much poorer job of scanning photos than my iPhone 16, I’m ready for one of these.

Welcome to New York

AeroXplorer: LaGuardia Tower Alerts Pilots to Possible Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat Near Airport. Excerpt: “Controllers told inbound flights to stay alert for individuals on the ground who may have been carrying a rocket launcher.” Easy to do while landing a plane on a runway approaching the cockpit at 200 mph.

Earth to Spectrum Internet::::

On your Outage Information and Troubleshooting page, just @#$%^ tell us where your @#$%^ outages are. Don’t require an account holder’s zip code and phone number first. When you’re just a friend trying to help the account holder over the phone (still working over the cell system), that information isn’t always available. Or necessary. Out is out. You’re a @#$%^ utility. Your outage is public information—or ought to be. Thank you for your service. When it’s back.

In case you’re optimistic about AI today

AI Secret : OpenAI Bags a Fields MedalistPlus: GPUs Stop Waiting, Kimi Exposed the Valley’s Mess.

To ponder:

OpenAI put the fire alarm on payroll, borrowed its medal for the pitch deck, and called the whole thing responsible AI…
BigMac did not create cheaper intelligence. It found the GPU waste inflating its price, and gave token economics a reason to fall by multiples…
Kimi did not reveal a Chinese threat. It revealed Silicon Valley has no shared answer for AI except that somebody else should pay more for it…
Gemini’s 950 million users do not prove Google built the best AI. They prove the best AI loses when it asks people to go somewhere else…
We’ve helped promote over 500 Tech Brands. Will yours be the next?

Unrelated (except by pessimism): Sketching the new dysto-utopian world with massive presence of artificial intelligence. A four-class society (a long read), by Branko Milanovic.

On the other head

Hear in LABen, the Man who Saved the Cinerama Dome

Think small

@BrianRoemmele: WOW! The $8 AI Machine!

Who needs a top-five wing and has picks to spare?

Now that LeBron is headed to the 76ers, watch Jaylen Brown get traded again before the season starts.



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