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So first of all, this mashup of LCD Soundsystem’s New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down and a recording of Miles David from his Elevator to the Gallows score is just great to listen to musically. But the, let’s call it choreography, is brilliantly spare: a pair of YouTube videos pulled up side-by-side in a now-ancient Safari browser and pressing play to sync them by hand — jazz-like, improvisational.
Just great!
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This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.
It’s RSS.
I’ve gone back to RSS in a big way, and it’s been great! There’s so many benefits, as Cory lays out. I highly recommend giving it a try!
I’m so deep that I’ve been building my own feed reader, maybe more on that someday…
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Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI. The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic, does a lot of research on how to reduce these risks. Because of this, people sometimes draw the conclusion that I’m a pessimist or “doomer” who thinks AI will be mostly bad or dangerous. I don’t think that at all. In fact, one of my main reasons for focusing on risks is that they’re the only thing standing between us and what I see as a fundamentally positive future. […] In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like–what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right.
Very interesting article from the head of Anthropic about what benefits we might see if powerful AI is created.
I hope something close to this is the version of the future we get, rather than Terminator.
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A few more from the hike.
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Hiking in North Georgia in perfect weather. The Joro spiders were out in force.
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Wasm is the new CGI | Roborooter.com
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I’ve been kicking around. “Wasm is the new CGI”
Good article. Web server technology is an area of interest for me, and I think the author is right: Wasm is positioned to be the next big thing in this space. I think it’s just a matter of time before the tooling and platforms are mature enough for wide adoption.
Also, don’t miss the Twitter thread about CGI and the birth of the web. This was a great walk through history. As someone who’s been working in this space for a long time, it was so fun to see this look back at the history and the impact this technology had. I basically owe my career to CGI!
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Hurricane Milton from space via the NASA Johnson Flickr.
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This is crazy, Greenday’s Dookie album rendered on various whacky media for the album’s 30th anniversary!
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I really enjoyed Guy Kawasaki’s 2021 podcast interview with Dave Winer!
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A look at Mozilla’s rebrand. “Mozilla’s new logo is a flag s…
A look at Mozilla’s rebrand. “Mozilla’s new logo is a flag symbol built from the Mozilla M that comes to life to reveal the company’s iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex symbol and mascot, originally designed by Shepard Fairey.”
I like it, especially that it incorporates the T-Rex. Not so sure I believe Mozilla will live up to the brand that’s described here…but I’d like to be wrong about this. Here’s hoping they live up to their mission.
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The videos from XOXO are starting to be posted and one of the first up is Molly White’s talk Fighting for our web.
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Dave Winer’s blog! Incredible that he’s been at it for so long. I’m also thankful that he created blogging and RSS!
I’m also thankful that platforms like Micro.blog help to keep blogging on the open web going!
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I did it! I finally finished Into the Aether’s nearly 16 hour podcast episode Game of the Decade 2000-2009!
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Just found the 31 Days of Halloween newsletter. It has already delivered by linking the Lofi Girl Halloween station.
Via Waxy.org
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Finally, a view in 3D from the Tallahassee radar as the hurricane made landfall.
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And this is the pressure gauge in my back yard.
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The hurricane has made it through the Atlanta area. I hope everyone made it through ok.
Here’s a view of the radar as the storm passed through.
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A few photos from the Forward Warrior Mural Festival in Cabbagetown, Atlanta where every year artists gather to paint murals along Wylie street.
