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Dublin. No longer intelligent.

Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea
Carved man
bunch of letter As growing to container size
Google maps notification saying “make it easier to get to this cemetery next time”.
Tripp Mickle
screenshot the the Open AI Jony Ive announcement page.
I'm not trying to be obtuse here. It's obvious why some executives at Apple might have hoped they could promote features like these at WWDC last year. Generative AI is the biggest thing to happen in the computer industry since previous breakthroughs this century like mobile (starting with the iPhone, followed by Android), social media (Meta), and cloud computing (Microsoft, Google, and Amazon). Nobody knows where it's going but wherever it's heading, it's going to be big, important, and perhaps profitable. Wall Street certainly noticed. And prior to WWDC last year, Apple wasn't in the game. They needed to pitch their AI story. And a story that involved nothing but table-stakes AI features isn't nearly as compelling a story as one that involves innovative, breakthrough, ambitious personal features.
Screenshot: People hate feeling bored. We hate it so much that we spend hours mindlessly scrolling through our phones. Many of us would rather experience physical discomfort than sit quietly with our own thoughts, as a 2014 University of Virginia study found. Nearly half of participants sitting alone in a room for 15 minutes, with no stimulation other than a button that would administer a mild electric shock, pressed the button.
A still from the new Jurassic World trailer.
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Empty Calvin and Hobbes grid on paper.
A Jack O’ Lantern I carved from a turnip.
A photo of the described website running on my phone.