Intentionally Spread Thin

OpenAI is shoving more stuff out the door that seems very early, very ambitious, and very janky. OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage […]

The Employees You Want

Max Read has a secondary potential motivation (other than sucking up to an incoming Presidential administration) for Mark Zuckerberg suddenly reinventing himself as the least intimidating, least plausible right-wing tough-guy reactionary ever conceived: “News on Friday that Meta is ending its D.E.I. program should be seen in this context–as not just another way to cozy […]

Three Pointers & The Angry Mob

John Hollinger is the first big, respected basketball name I’ve seen take a counterpunch at the puzzling (and omnipresent) narrative that the NBA is in some kind of death spiral. Declining TV ratings. Endless fourth quarters thanks to timeouts, replays and clock stoppages. One-sided blowouts. A new December tournament format struggling to compete with the […]

Year in Review (sort of)

This isn’t quite an end-of-year post, but technically, we are approaching the end of the year, so why not. At present, there are some things I’m high on (ideas, not substances), and some things I’m a lot lower on. In an attempt to stay positive, I’m going to counter each of my lows with a […]

Never Good Enough

For some reason, WordPress has decided to incinerate itself. It’s true, but not really true, because WordPress is a million different things. It’s an open source CMS. It’s a hosting provider of said CMS. It’s the flagship product, of sorts, of an extremely successful and (on the surface, at least?) cool looking tech company. It’s […]

Visionaries

I was ranting to my wife the other night about how frustrating it is that so much energy is going into absurd nerd fantasy when there’s just SO MUCH to improve about the actual technology real people use every day. At some point, I blurted out something about how maybe getting two completely insane platforms […]