More details of when Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board, from an upcoming book by Keach Hagey: The board felt they couldnāt divulge that it had been Murati who had given them some of the most detailed evidence of Altmanās management failings. They had banked on Murati calmi ā¦ | Continue reading
There seems to be a timezone bug in Siri + ChatGPT. To get better answers while driving I experimented with telling Siri to āask ChatGPT toā¦ā, but anything that needs the time is 5 hours off. I assume Apple is including the current time in a prompt to OpenAI, in GMT. Hopefully an ā¦ | Continue reading
My NCAA womenās bracket is still holding on with that Longhorns win! Great game Texas / Tennessee. š | Continue reading
Randomly stumbled on my post from two years ago about Threads joining the fediverse. It holds up so well it couldāve been written yesterday. Still no sign of Meta completing the parts of ActivityPub like account migration that would ease up on lock-in. | Continue reading
Got an email today for a class action lawsuit about chicken that I thought must be a phishing scam or a joke, but it appears real. The lawyers are going to make bank on this one! I donāt remember overpaying for chicken 5 years agoā¦ I do wonder how they got my email address. | Continue reading
xAI buying Twitter / X seems pretty sketchy. In practice, I guess it means the platform will live on for a while. I would not bet on xAIās long-term success, thoughā¦ OpenAI has billions of dollars of real revenue. xAI has effectively none, I think, outside of Twitter itself. | Continue reading
To be a blogger, you have to be okay with writing into the void. Some posts will resonate with people. Some posts will get comments. Most wonāt. Sometimes Iāll write a post and Iāll think to myself, āThis is pretty good! This is the blog post that people are gonna talk about and ā¦ | Continue reading
Iām drawn to blogging about divisive topics, but it would probably be healthier to avoid it. People can be so tribal now that everything is either good or bad. Our views have become extreme caricatures of the truth. | Continue reading
The pond at The Village, walking back to the mechanic to pick up my car after getting coffee. | Continue reading
Iām cracking up at the images in this Severance + Lego post on Daring Fireball. Who is that red minifigure? š¤£ | Continue reading
Wow, just watched the final minute of Lakers / Bulls from last night. Love basketball. š | Continue reading
ChatGPTās new image generation is incredibly good. Too good. You can see it in the thousands of Ghibli-ified photos all over the social web. Hayao Miyazaki is going to come out of retirement again to tell us how weāve all lost the plot on creativity. When we look back on this mom ā¦ | Continue reading
This is a helpful post from Paul Frazee about ATProto lexicons. One of the challenges for making Micro.blog a PDS is what to do with longer blog posts with titles that donāt fit cleanly into Blueskyās lexicon. Donāt really want to reinvent the wheel here. | Continue reading
A fun experiment in between bug fixingā¦ I added a films page to Micro.blog, with posters for Letterboxd links people have recently included in blog posts. Might evolve into a more complete feature later. | Continue reading
Worked on some book-related improvements in Micro.blog this morning. We try to integrate with all sorts of things ā Google Books, Open Library, Libby ā but a lot of it is not exactly officially sanctioned. Added more Goodreads scraping today. In for a penny, in for a pound! | Continue reading
Simon Willison has added notes (a.k.a. microblog posts) to his blog. Iāve really been enjoying his takes on AI. Heās usually the first I see jump in to explore a new modelās capabilities. | Continue reading
Iāve blogged about apologies before. They carry a lot of weight with me. Weāre human, we make mistakes, we learn. Just as I donāt trust people who canāt apologize, Iām also wary of people who canāt accept a heartfelt apology. It says more about you if nothing short of perfection ā¦ | Continue reading
But her emails! The Signal leak is an amazing contrast with Hillaryās server. There was nothing this consequential in her emails, only a handful maybe classified. But more than that, she apologized. Trump and his team will never apologize for anything, ever. Donāt trust people wh ā¦ | Continue reading
Sometimes in the debate about federation, we miss that open APIs are still very valuable alone. Blueskyās API has so many nice touches including many requests that do not need authorization at all. Iād like to see Mastodon ease off some of its more strict requirements for e.g. HT ā¦ | Continue reading
Seeing an increase in security proxies like Cloudflare interfering with legitimate Micro.blog requests to other services. Likely not related to the new AI Labyrinth, but along the same lines: when you try to catch āmisbehaving botsā, youāre going to affect real users too. | Continue reading
Today weāre rolling out a big improvement to our new EU-based servers. Along with the option to host your web pages in Europe, Micro.blog will now also copy your photos and other uploads. It will copy your data the first time the feature is enabled, and then going forward will ma ā¦ | Continue reading
The page for WWDC 2025 is vague enough that Apple could still do a live keynote. Not holding my breath. But it feels out of touch to not bring back a couple live demos. OpenAI is doing live streams every couple weeks (there was one today). It shows faith in your product. | Continue reading
Zac Hall blogs at 9to5Mac that Apple should acquire Mira Muratiās new company, Thinking Machines Labs: Let Rockwell make all the repairs and changes needed to allow Siri to meet the baseline performance that Apple should expect. Tap Murati to focus not on the baggage but instead ā¦ | Continue reading
Watching a couple of the videos from ATmosphereConf. The videos are up on YouTube in this playlist. | Continue reading
Putting the final touches on a nice improvement for our blogging friends across the pondā¦ Iāll announce in a blog post later today. | Continue reading
Pete Docter: AI takes something and sands the edges down, so it makes the blob average. And that could be very useful in a lot of ways. But if you really want to do something brand new and really insightful and speak from a personal angle, thatās not going to come from AI fully. | Continue reading
Got my copy of Dragonsteel Prime in the mail from the last crowdfunding. š | Continue reading
Federico Viticci on mobile app development becoming more accessible to many more people, just as blogging opened up web publishing: Those who wanted to have an online writing space 30 years ago had to know some of the basics of hosting and HTML if they wanted to publish something ā¦ | Continue reading
Great historical data for WWDC dates from David Smith. Should be announced soon! | Continue reading
Generative AI can be both good and bad, just like us. Weāre capable of kindness and cruelty. Society, government, and even companies should amplify the best in what we create and do. | Continue reading
Not sure why I didnāt think of this earlier, but there is now a simple weekly email newsletter for all the posts on news.micro.blog. You can subscribe here. We post small and big changes throughout the week that are easy to miss. | Continue reading
Nice profile of the Internet Archive on NPR: The Internet Archive is among the few efforts that exist to catch the stuff that falls through the digital cracks, while also making that information accessible to the public. Six weeks into the new administration, Wayback Machine dire ā¦ | Continue reading
Sounds like ATmosphereConf went really well in Seattle this weekend. So cool to see community events spring up around the social web. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas. Slowly working my way through the series with breaks to read other books in between. š | Continue reading
Since Cloudflareās AI Labyrinth was announced a few days ago Iāve been trying to figure out how I feel about it. Blocking misbehaving bots is good, but creating fake pages and hidden links reminds me of other hacks to trick crawlers that I think could be detrimental to the web. J ā¦ | Continue reading
Heading home. Texas / Louisiana border visitors center. š¤ | Continue reading
At a memorial service my mind drifted to what makes us human. I believe in AI as a tool to help us, to learn, to create. But AI cannot feel. Focus on that. The sound of our voice, imperfect. The stories, from life we have experienced. The art, with meaning because it comes from a ā¦ | Continue reading
While out walking today, listened to this great interview on Stratechery with Sam Altman, going over early time at OpenAI and where things might be headed. I know Sam can be a divisive figure, but if youāre fascinated with AI thereās a lot of interesting background here. | Continue reading
This shakeup of Siri leadership is surprisingly close to WWDC. Makes me think we wonāt see major changes this year, just a refinement of last yearās strategy with Siri and AI. | Continue reading
Had a good run for a few months on uptime until today. Iāve upgraded one of our servers to prevent this particular meltdown from happening again. | Continue reading
Bad timing, had a major server failure this morning. Micro.blog is back online and Iām restoring a few things now. š | Continue reading
Really positive reaction to my post about adding European web servers for Micro.blog. Thanks everyone! This is the first step, excited to explore more. | Continue reading
Starting today there is a new option for customers who want more flexibility for where their blog is hosted. When Micro.blog publishes your blog, it runs your blog posts through Hugo, creating static HTML files that are hosted outside of the main Micro.blog platform. Those files ā¦ | Continue reading
I avoid deploying new code to servers in the evening. Itās better to make changes when Iām awake for hours and can monitor for problems. But itās kind of a bummer for Europe and the rest of the world because new features always go live while theyāre asleep. Might break that rule ā¦ | Continue reading
Dave Rupert on ads, enshittification, and taste: I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect. | Continue reading