I've recorded a short video on YouTube to demo the new features in Inkwell for Mac, especially the new post window.
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Rare earth
I continue to come across some old drafts as I clean out my Dropbox. Here is a poem that I can't date exactly--maybe a couple of years ago?
I listened to a podcast today
about rare earth minerals.
It didn't help my mood.
As the rage built inside me,
I imagined writing a poetic diatribe.
But I'm tired.
And my tooth hurts.
And I'm just so sad about everything.
What good would it do,
artfully arranging words while
the earth is cracked open
and the bodies of the poor are broken
and we here in America await news
of the next goddamn iPhone?
God damn the iPhone.
God damn the killing technology.
God damn me and you,
playing games and scrolling scrolling scrolling
on devices scratched from the bones of our
rare earth.
about rare earth minerals.
It didn't help my mood.
As the rage built inside me,
I imagined writing a poetic diatribe.
But I'm tired.
And my tooth hurts.
And I'm just so sad about everything.
What good would it do,
artfully arranging words while
the earth is cracked open
and the bodies of the poor are broken
and we here in America await news
of the next goddamn iPhone?
God damn the iPhone.
God damn the killing technology.
God damn me and you,
playing games and scrolling scrolling scrolling
on devices scratched from the bones of our
rare earth.
SpaceX data center follow-up
Stephen Hackett blogs about the Anthropic + SpaceX / xAI news, with more questions:
Colossus 2 is believed to be up and running, at least to some degree, and xAI may no longer need the first site. Has xAI moved Grok there, leaving the original data center and its yet-to-be-built water treatment plant open for lease? How much is Anthropic paying xAI for the site? Was this a move to help bring some sanity to xAI’s books as SpaceX plans to go public?
Colossus 2 is believed to be up and running, at least to some degree, and xAI may no longer need the first site. Has xAI moved Grok there, leaving the original data center and its yet-to-be-built water treatment plant open for lease? How much is Anthropic paying xAI for the site? Was this a move to help bring some sanity to xAI’s books as SpaceX plans to go public?
Also with the OpenAI trial on my mind, there's a certain perspective to the story where both Elon Musk and Dario Amodei were frustrated at OpenAI and left, at different times and for different reasons, and now they're partners.
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Michael Tsai blogging on the Siri delays settlement:
If you really did buy an $800+ iPhone because of advertised features that never shipped, getting back $25 doesn’t seem like much consolation.
Right, because tech company class action lawsuits are now rarely about the customers. They're about the lawyers skimming some of the money. The settlement doesn't appear to outline the fee yet, but 25% for these things is common — and matches the Apple battery lawsuit a few years ago — which would be $62.5 million here.
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What I want to build are things that work the old fashioned way, on protocols that give users sovereignty and agency, but with modern thinking applied to the UI and UX.
That's it. That's my whole shtick. Thanks!
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Anthropic has announced a major deal with SpaceX to help relieve pressure on Claude's current infrastructure:
We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center. This gives us access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month.
Colossus 1 was famously used to train Grok. My reading of this is that Anthropic now has access to essentially all of the GPUs, since 200k GPUs had been previously announced for the data center. Maybe they've left a handful for Twitter / X.
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There's a good discussion on the latest AppStories podcast about Codex for Mac and related tools. Federico Viticci:
I was very skeptical of the idea of a super app. But it turns out, a super app for productivity makes a lot of sense.
It also need to experiment with skills and automations more.
A computer that's just a keyboard, no screen
Oh you mean like with audio output instead
Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard.
Why
Short answer: why not?
Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a keyboard for taking notes; and I said that's totally doable and probably not hard at all to do, since computers that are inside a keyboard already exist. So here's me putting my money where my mouth is.
Read more on the site…
Let others know you blog
Who knows that you blog? David recently asked this question on his blog.
Most people who know me are also aware that I have a blog. It's not like I shout it out every time I meet someone, but it tends to come up naturally since it's one of my dearest hobbies.
I understand that some people have their reasons for not letting others know about it. Just doing their thing in their corner of the web. There's something special about having that anonymous solitude, while still being able to interact with others.
But I also believe that it's very easy to deceive oneself. Pulling the anonymous card out of fear of committing.
"I'm not doing this to make a name for myself. I just want to write about whatever whenever."
Those words may be true. But there's also a chance that, in reality, those are the borrowed humility of a false prophet. An escape plan ready to set in motion as soon as the going gets tough.
And the irony of it all is that those very same words also may be true for someone who's the opposite of a stealth blogger. Doing what they love simply because the pure joy of it. No demands, no deadlines, no agenda to stick to.
If you're being completely honest with yourself, why haven't you told others that you have a blog? If the answer is because you're afraid of what others may think, then spread the word.
It's your blog, your rules. Letting others know about it might be the boost you need to keep going.
No matter what route you take, keep on blogging.
