This is 1) the best essay I’ve read in a while on OpenAI’s situation specifically, and 2) the whole question around LLMs as a new flavor of compute. Act accordingly. www.techmeme.com/260221/p5#a2...

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

You do realize you won’t have to post here anymore soon right? AI will do it for you. The thing is: you’ll still scroll as much as you ever did and won’t notice the difference.

Am I wrong or does Apple need to release Macs that are like total beasts for doing AI very soon?

I've actually been to the desert on a horse with THREE names: "Filly Michael Thomas." The original owner was a huge Miami Vice fan.

🌇 on Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:54 in New York City. Current conditions (via NOAA): 🌞 Fair/clear Temperature: 0° Relative Humidity: 36.05% Wind Chill: -2.58°

hoobastink, stank, stunk

so very true

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

Here's Bjork again for no reason at all.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I never do this, but I really want to be involved. @elliottkalan.bsky.social should write on it. I'll laugh and unroll maps. deadline.com/2025/12/matt...

Get back to bed or die tryin'

Jesus Christ.

Now do this with a blimp connecting to a spire.

The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee

If I heard the call of Cthulhu I would simply not answer it. Not my business.

You think I don’t have that kind of money

Arsenal have gone 11 hours and 26 minutes since they last conceded a goal in any competition. #BURARS

For the 1000th time. Paris in spring. NYC fall.

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

Same!

The song "Wonderwall" is 30 years old today. Anyway.

🧵Some personal news: After a 6 year hiatus, the Internet History Podcast is back! Yes, the original tech history podcast is back with the first three episodes below, followed by a new one every week for the foreseeable future. Search your podcast app now youtu.be/sjkkdcMp2Pk

Here's the thing. What if Quantum Computing has its ChatGPT moment (not in terms of consumer adoption, but in terms of proving concept) in the next 18 months? You stack that on top of AI and things will get crazy, crazy fast. www.techmeme.com/251022/p30#a...

Luigi acquires a new mansion. It's filled with the souls of the dead. No wonder, no curiosity about the nature of these souls or the greater implications. Just clean them out like vermin.

Ahead of a cryptocurrency selloff, two accounts placed bets against the market minutes before tariff news broke and scored $160 million

Solsbury Hill came on and I wrote a complete 90s romcom in 4 minutes

COL. KURTZ: fetch me my tape recorder... i must inform those bureaucrats at headquarters of my snail dream

I’ll bang this drum forever. It’s their best movie.

I keep saying this but it is just so obvious where this is going

When the aux cord breaks and I just start singing

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

The rare opposite of horrible YouTube face thumbnails, the blessed Irish cradling of DeVito

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

Aaarrgggg! Nobody told me that they took away the volume control on the new AirPods!!!!! This is literally a deal breaker. Screw you, Apple!

But if I'm an American I CAN use the feature in Europe? Otherwise my dream of using this in Italy this spring just died and I guess I'll send my recently ordered AirPods back... www.techmeme.com/250911/p10#a...

RTing because I really want someone to get this burrito

Yeah. People are more aggressive than me. :)

The nerdiest but honest way to explain iPhone events in 2025: This is how Apple plans to squeeze 1% to 2% incremental growth from a smartphone market that stopped growing years ago. The company is a genius at making money from this kind of dull thinking.

An app called Arbynb's for finding an Arby's to sleep in

There's something really funny about how Gen Z has realised that all you have to do is film yourself making shocked faces and mouthing WOOOOW to hit songs from the 70s and 80s and put it on YT and it's basically a free money transfer service from boomers

This is a ven diagram of my age.

Came back from recording a pod to see the Man U news. Unbelievable. I watched some of the first half tho, so... believable?

is it too soon to do a crystalline entity cosplay

A flecked granite kitchen island. A paper plate, even though there are plenty of real plates in the cupboard. A paper napkin. A black iron sconce. Eating at your parents’ house.

This is a good point if you were born in the 70s or early 80s