Harry McCracken

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2026-11-05 20:38:13 GMT

It’s been eons since I visited Salon on anything more than an extremely sporadic basis, but it was once a daily read for me. It was one of the first online publications to figure out what the medium could do. I’m very sorry to hear this. https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/

2026-11-04 05:40:50 GMT

In other breaking news: I reviewed and liked the new iPad Mini. I think it really has the spirit of the original 2010 iPad as demoed by Steve Jobs from the comfort of an onstage chair. https://www.fastcompany.com/91634208/ipad-mini-review-2026

2026-11-01 02:34:48 GMT

I still remember the best trick-or-treat candy I ever got: a full-sized Choco’lite bar in Portland in 1973. If whoever was handing them out happens to be reading this: thank you.

2026-10-28 16:11:35 GMT

Users of Windows desktops and laptops with touchscreens: How often do you use this feature?

2026-10-12 17:07:01 GMT

Many people I like and respect are on Twitter, but Musk’s appalling, ongoing use of his own platform to spread hate is the single biggest reason why I won’t be actively participating anytime soon, and find it bizarre that people of good will do.

2026-09-26 22:25:06 GMT

First time I’ve seen public signage establishing rights for robots over humans.
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2026-09-09 04:38:24 GMT

Microsoft Bob was a mistake, but I don’t remember it taking so much as a single human life.
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2026-08-21 15:25:58 GMT

Wouldn’t it have been simpler for everyone involved to have done this many years ago?
(I was relieved when Home Depot, another holdout, finally implemented mobile payments last year.) https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/21/walmart-finally-launching-apple-pay-support-next-week/

2026-08-02 01:08:15 GMT

About to see the first public screening of this.
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2026-07-27 03:51:32 GMT

I’m looking up stuff in 1970s issues of Creative Computing, and getting distracted by Monte Wolverton’s funny and prescient cartoons.
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2026-07-24 17:05:48 GMT

I wrote about how and why Nvidia redesigned its Vera Rubin platform to eliminate dozens of cables—something I didn’t even realize was possible. https://www.fastcompany.com/91578917/nvidia-vera-rubin

2026-07-23 11:37:14 GMT

I’m working on an article on John C. Dvorak, the king of computer magazine columnists—RIP—but in the interim, here he is from February 1984 on Macworld and computer magazines in general.
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2026-07-14 15:57:14 GMT

This guy was an artist and commentator of the first rank. There are still some people doing good political cartoons today, but I’m sorry the medium is not what it once was. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/arts/pat-oliphant-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xlA.a-yp.H5jU7c63JP8f&smid=url-share

2026-07-11 01:32:20 GMT

We might all have forgotten about this book sometime in 2025 if Meta wasn’t giving it all this free publicity. https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pursuit-of-the-careless-people-author-is-relentless-and-self-defeating/

2026-06-25 20:50:07 GMT

This is awful news. He was an extremely good human being, and had been doing the best writing of his life in recent months. What a loss. https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

2026-06-25 15:24:49 GMT

How can it make sense that Polestar is banned from the U.S. but Volvo is not? Does not compute. https://insideevs.com/news/799796/polestar-exits-us-market-authorization-denied/

2026-06-19 13:48:16 GMT

I wrote about Roku, the origin story it doesn’t talk about, and it’s become so important without getting much attention. https://www.fastcompany.com/91562051/fox-buys-roku

2026-06-05 17:53:52 GMT

Really hope iPadOS 27 cleans up iPadOS 26’s multitasking makeover—particularly the traffic-light control, which should never have been put on the iPad in the first place. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/wwdc-2026-preview-ios-27-siri-ai-features-macos-27-more-apple-will-announce

2026-06-03 02:16:24 GMT

How dare a 60 Minutes correspondent ask difficult questions in an overbearing manner? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/cbs-news-fires-60-minutes-correspondent-scott-pelley-rcna348176

2026-05-28 22:53:58 GMT

Eventually, the world will figure out that AI use should be all about quality, not quantity. I’m surprised it’s not obvious to everyone already. https://www.ft.com/content/b1a62a7f-6df5-4c90-94ce-64ce9c9961b6

2026-05-28 21:58:09 GMT

I have a sincere question: If the ban on living persons appearing on U.S. currency were to be lifted—for one time only—who would you put on the $250 bill? https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/28/trump-250-bill-pushed-by-treasury-appointees/

2026-05-21 14:24:45 GMT

Whatever else you do, PROTECT THE VERGE. https://www.adweek.com/media/vox-media-murdoch-penske-popsugar-she-media/

2026-05-19 20:57:12 GMT

I’m not sure if this is vandalism or a pricey custom paint job. Also whether it’s an upgrade or a downgrade.
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2026-05-19 19:43:10 GMT

I feel like I spend at least 45% of any trip to NYC trying to avoid paying attention to the Miller Minute.
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2026-05-08 16:26:12 GMT

Love reading the NYTimes and wish it was still possible to actually do it.
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2026-04-27 17:11:05 GMT

I'm just a simple boy journalist, but I know that AI is capable of making monstrous mistakes and should not be let anywhere near the production version of an app.
(Replit blithely deleted 1,000 photos taken by my grandmother, but not my primary copies.) https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
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2026-04-20 23:29:09 GMT

Please, let this whole trend be as short-lived as media companies doing NFTs. https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/

2026-04-16 15:59:28 GMT

It’s been a decade since DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat the world’s top Go player. Here’s my story on Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and his life in gaming and AI, all the way back to his days as a chess prodigy and the Othello AI he wrote for his Amiga as a kid. https://www.fastcompany.com/91527380/demis-hassabis-alphago-anniversary

2026-04-13 20:29:42 GMT

I’m sorry to hear this. Maybe you have to be of a certain age to understand, but he and his brother warped an entire generation’s minds. Nobody like them before or since. RIP. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/sid-krofft-creator-h-r-164645702.html

2026-04-10 17:48:30 GMT

I wasn’t a huge Alamo Drafthouse fan in the first place, and haven’t been lately, but this sounds like a reason to actively avoid it. https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/alamo-drafthouse-sucks-now-1235188253/

2026-04-07 23:35:12 GMT

I am being told that Donald Trump’s credibility may be at risk. Possibly. As unlikely as it seems.
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2026-04-05 23:52:56 GMT

Worst moments in American history, ranked:
1) This

2026-04-03 18:45:23 GMT

Flipboard’s Surf, which I first wrote about in 2024, is finally available without an invite as a web and Android app. (iOS still has a waitlist.) It’s a wildly inventive and invigorating way to find stuff that’s actually worth reading, watching, and listening to. https://www.fastcompany.com/91520679/surf-flipboard

2026-03-28 03:23:18 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq I use AI in all sorts of ways in my work, but the actual assembling of words I don’t want to turn over to someone (or something) else. Especially when my byline is on it.

2026-03-27 03:30:28 GMT

Two reasons why I’m not interested in letting AI ghostwrite for me:
1) Writing is how I think things through and come to conclusions.
2) Above all, I am motivated by the possibility that I have not yet written the best thing I’ll ever write.
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

2026-03-26 14:41:01 GMT

The memories in this story are so precious, and I’m very grateful to the 23 people who shared them. Some were teenagers when Apple was born, but most were in their 20s, 30s, or even 40s back then. https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl

2026-03-26 05:13:55 GMT

I can’t begin to tell you how much fun I had talking to people who were present at Apple’s creation—Woz, of course, but so many more. I learned so much, and really did feel like I was there. So will you, I think. Here’s a gift link which you’re welcome to share: https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl

2026-02-06 17:06:18 GMT

I wrote about AI taking over software development in general, my experience with Claude Code in particular, and this guy named Edsger Dijkstra who thought normal people shouldn’t even try to program computers. https://www.fastcompany.com/91485494/vibe-coding-with-claude-code

2026-01-25 03:43:33 GMT

Turns out you can declare war on your own country and still get CEOs to come to your party. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/white-house-vip-melania-screening-mike-tyson-tim-cook-1236484037/

2026-01-22 01:53:27 GMT

I need your help for a newsletter I’m writing:
Give me some examples—ANY examples—of people from Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large who are famous for having great senses of humor. It may not be a very long list!

2026-01-21 23:09:31 GMT

A confession:
I have long believed that when I was 8, our family flew from NYC to Paris via Greenland, and I got off the plane and set foot in the country for about 15 minutes. But apparently that’s very unlikely and we probably flew through Iceland on our way to Luxembourg?

2026-01-07 04:20:04 GMT

This is better than a public Blue Screen of Death.
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2025-12-24 03:25:49 GMT

In the end, DOGE will be remembered for the many deaths and other forms of misery it needlessly inflicted on the U.S. and the world, not whether it saved any money. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html

2025-12-14 22:53:22 GMT

I see abandoned electronics on sidewalks fairly often. But this is the first 16mm projector I recall. (It was near an antique store, though maybe that was just a coincidence?)
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2025-12-10 15:47:59 GMT

Here’s my look at Astranis, an innovative space company that’s not only based in San Francisco but manufacturing satellites there. https://www.fastcompany.com/91456505/astranis-microgeo-satellites-john-gedmark?mvgt=xRg2mwIRxJoT

2025-11-16 06:19:23 GMT

It’s Petula Clark’s birthday! She signed my iPod, as did Burt Bacharach. (And then I ran out of room, which was OK.)
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2025-11-14 13:25:16 GMT

I thought that abandoning Twitter as a social networking platform would be tough until I actually did it. https://www.fastcompany.com/91439423/one-year-later-im-gladder-than-ever-i-left-twitter

2025-11-06 01:23:10 GMT

Are we supposed to be impressed when our airline app says it uses generative AI to provide flight status? Or concerned?
(So needy.)
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2025-10-28 04:07:31 GMT

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You wrote about Ayds and Atari Democrats? I gotta read those.

2025-10-24 16:56:02 GMT

Nolan Bushnell’s 1983 ad for his Topo home robot is still one of my favorite things ever, from the photo to the gold-plated statuette to the fact you mailed the order form to Nolan himself.
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2025-10-19 08:33:15 GMT

My friend Paul Boutin has died, far too young. He was also one of my favorite tech writers ever, and a profound influence on my own work. Here’s an archive of his wonderful Slate columns from a simpler time. https://slate.com/author/paul-boutin

2025-10-14 20:40:04 GMT

Sometimes our memories of movies are really memories of this guy’s remarkable posters. RIP. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-struzan-dies-movie-posters-1236400361/

2025-10-11 20:08:15 GMT

It turns out you can only create 30 Sora videos in a 24-hour period. I am currently feeling deprived.
(This really is the best new social network to come along in many years.)

2025-10-08 19:53:05 GMT

What possibile justification is there for this? https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/

2025-08-30 22:59:00 GMT

Evernote, an app I once loved, has completely tumbled down a rabbit hole of dark-pattern pricing and become a hellscape.

2025-08-26 23:01:06 GMT

Bring him back.
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2025-08-24 07:59:04 GMT

I don’t think we’re on the cusp of superintelligence. (Full convo here: https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac562-e750-8005-961c-7494fed442a2)
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2025-08-23 20:38:52 GMT

How many hours does YOUR rule involve?
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2025-08-21 04:02:56 GMT

Bonus: ChatGPT thinks MS NOW consists of four letters.
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2025-08-19 15:57:02 GMT

I was impressed by the 600-page copy of Elle in my doctor’s waiting room until I noticed it has apparently been sitting here for 13 years.
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2025-08-18 21:06:54 GMT

When I was a kid, this guy and his writing partner Germond were gods to me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/08/18/jules-witcover-dead/

2025-08-18 16:25:13 GMT

Perhaps it will eventually merge with U.S. News and World Report to become My Source U.S. News Opinion World Report. Or Opinion My Report News U.S. Source.
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2025-08-16 23:21:30 GMT

I’m sure Chipotle is thrilled that this protest at the neighboring Tesla dealer (formerly my Saturn dealer) has overflowed to adjacent businesses.
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2025-08-15 15:42:28 GMT

The evidence is building that giving AI a humanlike perso na can go terribly wrong. Even when it doesn’t, it may be a misplaced priority. https://www.fastcompany.com/91385476/ai-personality

2025-08-14 20:34:55 GMT

Sounds like a sad situation and a bad idea all around. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/trump-administration-is-said-to-discuss-us-taking-stake-in-intel

2025-08-14 16:52:12 GMT

More evidence that Meta’s quest for superintelligence is unburdened by fussy little details like a sense of how AI might improve our lives rather than degrade them. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/

2025-08-11 22:32:59 GMT

I stopped using dial-up much in 1998, when I got a cable modem at a time when they were still quite rare. After moving to San Francisco in 2002, I had flaky EarthLink DSL that came with dial-up for use during outages. And I used AOL’s excellent international dial-up network when traveling abroad.

2025-08-10 03:22:02 GMT

My hotel’s hallways have wallpaper seemingly decorated with …. assembler code?
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2025-08-09 19:05:18 GMT

There’s a case to be made that AI assistants should be programmed to be completely anodyne information utilities, devoid of chattiness. Relatedly, I’ve been trying Figma Make and noticed that—unlike Replit—it makes no attempt to be my pal or praise my ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.FEwL.MLb9ajaocyTx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-08-08 00:41:27 GMT

Interesting pricing strategy—bulk purchases are discouraged?
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2025-08-07 17:39:33 GMT

Don’t have it yet, and am curious how it compares to Claude, which has lately been my go-to LLM, especially for anything involving code. https://www.theverge.com/openai/748017/gpt-5-chatgpt-openai-release

2025-08-04 15:12:40 GMT

Big news! Thanks to an enterprising programmer, my 1981 BASIC adventure game is available in a new version for Radio Shack’s TRS-80 MC-10 computer, which I barely remember existing. But you can play it in your browser. https://www.arctic81.com/arctic-adventure-mc10.html

2025-08-01 23:54:41 GMT

I’m at the Vintage Computer Festival’s amazing Homebrew Computer Club session. Ted Nelson is zooming in and talking with moderator Lee Felsenstein.
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2025-08-01 22:55:00 GMT

I don’t really buy vintage computers—no space and insufficient time to play with them—but I still want one of these.
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2025-08-01 22:50:57 GMT

The free stuff room at the Vintage Computer Festival turned out to have some of my own history.
(I’m happy to mostly keep magazines I worked on in space-saving PDF form, but I did take the Best Products of 1995 issue, with my lead news story on smokin’ fast 133-MHz Pentium PCs.)
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2025-08-01 18:11:10 GMT

The Vintage Computer Festival has an especially large selection of free stuff this year. This is a tiny fraction, including a product I donated—maybe you can guess which one it is.
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2025-07-27 23:17:26 GMT

Picked up a few back issues at Comic-Con.
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2025-07-25 15:05:30 GMT

My Alaska gate in San Diego has a VERY classic printer. Wish I’d seen it in action.
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2025-07-25 05:55:12 GMT

I wrote about the Mac-like iPadOS 26. People who have been clamoring for something like this will probably be very happy. Me, I’ve been using an iPad precisely because it fast-forwarded past the cruft of existing interfaces. https://www.fastcompany.com/91373393/ipados-26-public-beta

2025-07-23 22:28:54 GMT

The BlackBerry Passpoirt didn’t really lead anywhere for BlackBerry, but I’m sort of excited to see someone clone the design for an Android phone all these years later. https://www.fastcompany.com/91370954/titan-2-unihertz-smartphone-physical-keyboard

2025-07-23 22:26:06 GMT

2025-07-23 21:05:35 GMT

Speak for yourself.
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2025-07-16 03:58:30 GMT

Weird: Apple Maps says there’s a place called 99 Cent Fresh Pizza here. But all I see is some other place called $1.50 Fresh Pizza.
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2025-07-06 19:55:20 GMT

Visited Barnes and Noble, which has remained much of its CD/DVD/Blu-Ray section as a lap desk and Lego section.
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2025-07-05 16:56:01 GMT

We haven’t even achieved AGI, and it’s already passé. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-03/what-does-superintelligence-mean?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MTY4OTY1OSwiZXhwIjoxNzUyMjk0NDU5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWVVBOEtUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwNEFGQkMxQkYyMTA0NUVEODg3MzQxQkQwQzIyNzRBMCJ9.R5UZ4nIINm88RtT4nWbny1bWcVSd_8gCDV8b3wZoxio&leadSource=uverify%20wall

2025-07-04 22:31:05 GMT

I can’t remember what car I drove when I got my learner’s permit, but it wasn’t a Cybertruck.
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2025-06-20 16:30:00 GMT

I talked to Apple execs about the company’s surprisingly meaty Vision Pro software update. It’s interesting even if you aren’t about to plunk down $3,500 for a spatial computing headset! https://www.fastcompany.com/91352884/apple-vision-pro-visionos-26

2025-06-19 06:53:40 GMT

This is the best look at iPadOS 26 I’ve seen. But Apple could and should retain Split View in its current form even if floating, overlapping windows are also available. Dragging and dropping app icons from the Dock and Spotlight should work just as it does now. https://www.macstories.net/stories/interview-craig-federighi-opens-up-about-ipados-its-multitasking-journey-and-the-ipads-essence/

2025-06-19 06:03:39 GMT

Here’s a cartoon I made when I was about 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4khaGEav5Tk

2025-06-18 23:38:04 GMT

The first person who springs to mind when I think of someone exhibiting “hostility towards the citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the United States” on social media isn’t a visiting student. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/social-media-screening-student-visas-00413160

2025-06-17 03:50:10 GMT

I’m only getting one if there’s a plan that includes access to Pete Hegseth’s group chats. https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/687492/trump-mobile-phone-t1

2025-06-16 23:44:22 GMT

A giant of journalism. I am in awe of his work and got to help honor it one year when I served as a National Magazine Awards judge in a category he won. RIP. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/william-langewiesche-dead.html

2025-06-15 19:12:55 GMT

WHICH ONE IS IT, BEST BUY?!?
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2025-06-15 01:31:05 GMT

A little personal news:
I rented a scooter for the first time.
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2025-06-14 21:32:48 GMT

Gonna be on TWiT tomorrow with @nprofile…yfxm, @nprofile…m8ql, and @nprofile…aje9. LOTS to talk about.

2025-06-13 16:12:01 GMT

Reading this sort of stuff makes me wonder if AGI will never actually be a thing in any meaningful sense. It’s just word-stringing. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.VBY-.s76GQpFar8r4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-06-13 14:28:15 GMT

26 years ago, Jef Raskin sent me an email sharply criticizing the state of software design. His comments remained unpublished back then, but they remain relevant, and are too fascinating not to share. https://www.fastcompany.com/91350773/jef-raskin-wwdc-2025

2025-06-13 05:44:51 GMT

Ugh all around. https://www.theverge.com/policy/685690/big-tech-trump-military-parade-america250

2025-06-13 02:37:21 GMT

Is Meta using AI in any of its products in a non-nightmarish fashion? https://www.fastcompany.com/91351690/meta-ai-discover-feed-personal-chatbot-conversations-public-shared-unintentionally

2025-06-12 20:02:52 GMT

I’m particularly interested in the memorabilia relating to Steve Jobs’ brief time at Reed College at the bottom of this tribute to his Stanford commencement address. (My father taught at Reed from 1968-1974, though he was on sabbatical when Jobs was enrolled.) https://stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/stay-hungry-stay-foolish