I like this analogy from Alice Bartlett’s blog:

I think with AI you’ve got to be building the software equivalent of escalators if you’re going to do it for prod. That way if the AI goes away you still have stairs, unless you’ve gotten too out of shape to walk up them.

The Guardian reports on an upcoming social media ban for teens in the UK:

Keir Starmer is to ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.

Eventually we’re going to need to figure out legislation that is a little more narrowly focused than this. But for now I’m fine with it.

I enjoyed this recent Q&A with Brandon Sanderson from London. But also, do I actually want the Mistborn movie? As much as I loved the Lord of the Rings movies, part of me wishes I had never seen them. Each viewing erases a bit of how I imagined the world and characters.

Satya Nadella writes on his blog for the first time in a while, about how companies will evolve with AI:

I believe human agency will be the driver of token capital growth. Humans will set ambitious goals, connect dots across domains, build relationships, and recognize patterns that matter most. Without human direction, you have compute running in circles.

Added a new movies feature that people have been asking for. When blogging about a movie or TV show from Micro.blog, it can now include a little movie poster on your blog post. There’s a preference under Movies → Settings on the web. Similar to what we have for books.

Here’s a screenshot.

Yesterday David Sacks had a long post on X with the administration’s side of the story on the Fable ban:

The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

He says it’s not because of previous disagreements with the Department of Defense. Maybe, but surely the mistrust between everyone does influence these decisions.

Pretty happy with how Micro.blog 3.7 turned out. In addition to the Liquid Glass update, the new post text editor has been completely rewritten, now matching the Markdown highlighting on the web. Lots of fixes throughout the app.

We’ve been enjoying Star City and also catching up on For All Mankind season 5. 📺

I started collecting anonymous stats for our Mac app for the first time. We support old versions of macOS for a long time, but I wanted to know more about how much memory people have.

Results after less than a week: 43% with 16 GB or less, 57% with 24 GB or more. Pretty good! That surprised me.

I’m so emotionally invested in these Spurs games, probably too much, that after a win or loss I’m too wired to do anything except work, even though it’s almost midnight. So finishing some iOS work to submit to Apple. Also crunching some stats.