Also, happy Pride :3

Yes, happy pride month everyone!

I’ve decided that this year I’m going to be more open about this and wear a pride bracelet whenever I go in public this month. Including for (remote) work meetings where nobody knows… wonder if anyone will notice.

That’s it, I’m ordering a copy.

Ah, thanks, well my sarcasm detector isn’t that good.

160,000 organisations, sending 251 million messages! […] A message costs one cent. […] Microsoft is forecast to spend $80 billion on AI in 2025.

No problem. To break even, they can raise prices just a little bit, from one cent per message to, uuh, $318 per message. I don’t think that such a tiny price bump is going to reduce usage or scare away any customers, so they can just do that.

From McCarthy’s reply:

My current answer to the question of when machines will reach human-level intelligence is that a precise calculation shows that we are between 1.7 and 3.1 Einsteins and .3 Manhattan Projects away from the goal.

omg this statement sounds 100% like something that could be posted today by Sam Altman on X. It’s hititing exactly the sweet spot between appearing precise but also super vague, like Altman’s “a few thousand days”.

Also great, right after that:

Nevertheless, it is common in literature for a good writer - to show greater understanding of the experience of the opposite sex than a poorer writer of that sex.

Yeeeaah, sure. And to write that in the 1970s even.

If anything, this McCarthy reply makes me want to read the Weizenbaum book.

I didn’t know that uwu news influencer was a thing.

Same, and also I’m still trying to process that “uwu” breached out of furry spaces and became a widely understood term. (Although I’m not entirely sure what way it took, it’s also possible that it breached out of anime-related communities. Maybe some day cyber-archeologists can figure this out.)

In the collection of links of what Ive has done in recent years, there’s one to an article about a turntable redesign he worked on, and from that article:

The Sondek LP12 has always been entirely retrofittable and Linn has released 50 modular hardware upgrades to the machine, something that Ive said he appreciates. “I love the idea that after years of ownership you can enjoy a product that’s actually better than the one you bought years before,” said Ive.

I don’t know, should I laugh, or should I scream, that it’s Ive, of all people, saying that.