The kids took all our Nintendo Switches to their own apartments. Seriously considering picking up a Lite to play the new Mario Wonder. 🕹️
Picked up Killers of the Flower Moon a few weeks ago and only now starting it. Got tickets for the movie next week so I have a little time to make a dent in the book, at least. đź“š
Happy Friday! New @coreint podcast to wind down the week. Episode 573 covers Apple’s “video reactions” feature and what we can learn about rolling out a surprising feature. Then we jump back into Twitter/X news with the $1/year subscription announcement.
https://micro.blog/coreint https://coreint.org/2023/10/episode-573-one-dollar-one-dollar/
Thinking about Biden’s address to the country last night, he did something remarkable that I didn’t realize at first. After the Hamas attack, I assumed that any chance of peace had been set back decades. Biden steered me back from the cliff: no, we cannot give up on peace, even when it is hard. 🇺🇸
This post from @mia@void.rehab will ring true to anyone who has actually implemented an ActivityPub server. We talk about ActivityPub as if it’s a fully-formed spec, but it’s really a suite of specs, and trial and error. I’d love to see the specs streamlined without breaking compatibility.
https://void.rehab/notes/9kyvsl1ktsfz2red https://micro.blog/mia@void.rehab
Matt Mullenweg on the experience of riding in a self-driving taxi:
"The thing is I know these self-driving cars exist, I’ve seen them around San Francisco forever, but the experience of being picked up and dropped off by a robot navigating the tricky SF hills and streets just hits different."
We have these in Austin now too. Seeing a car just driving down the street with no one in it is absolutely wild.
Honda Element: bed platform https://www.manton.org/2023/10/19/honda-element-bed.html
Honea Element: bed platform https://www.manton.org/2023/10/19/honea-element-bed.html
Looks like Georgia knew what they were doing with the 19-person indictment… One by one the defendants agree to tell the truth until only Trump and a handful of people are left for a trial? Sidney Powell pleads guilty, via CNN:
"Fulton County prosecutors are recommending a sentence of six years probation. Powell will also be required to testify at future trials and write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia."
Thought I had a good job for our robot overlords. I grabbed a list of language codes from Wikipedia, ran some regex on it to make it JSON, then asked ChatGPT to trim it to the most popular 50 languages in the world. No luck, the output was wrong and not usable. AI still has a ways to go.
Finished reading: Age of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan. Still enjoying this series. đź“š
Wow, great game to wrap up the WNBA finals. Liberty so close to forcing a game 5. Congrats to the Aces! Becky Hammon building a heck of a coaching career so far in Vegas. 🏀
Didn’t take many photos while in west Texas. Here’s a random shot as I stopped for a minute driving back to I-10.
Need to remind myself when on an interview or podcast: I usually do okay the first 15 minutes, then get a bit worked up, talk too fast, and lose my train of thought. Especially when the AC is off and I start sweating. Argh, summer.
Reviewing the cross-posting chapter of my book, several things are out of date. I’m doing a final pass through the book, cutting a few sections. Would rather most of the book withstand the test of time but things change too quickly, calling it “done” has been hard.
Seeing some variety in reactions to Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto. I read it quickly and haven’t thought enough to have a strong opinion, except that I don’t like how “enemy” is used. Technology’s role in society should be a conversation, not a war.
On the last Core Intuition, I joked about a hypothetical manton.ai… But then I sort of worried someone else would register it, so I decided to grab the domain myself. Whoops! Too many domains. Just made it a placeholder site hosted on Micro.blog.
Finished reading: The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson. Listened to the whole audiobook on the drive to and from the Davis Mountains. Brandon giving us a taste of the Cosmere end game! Loved it. đź“š
Found a great spot to work for the afternoon in the library at Sul Ross.
Kottke.org is bringing back blog comments. Members-only, which seems like a nice solution. I think we’ll see more of this as the social web evolves away from silos.
https://kottke.org/23/10/introducing-the-new-kottke-comments