My parents have been together 54 years, and I've never heard one put the other down. Their kindness and patience toward each other have been a consistent feature since my earliest memories. The ways in which their relationship has shaped my life are immense and countless.

This year I've been on a kick reviewing the music I listened to in my youth (by choice or circumstance) mostly songs from the 70s and 80s. Today I realized that Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" is a mid-80s version of Bob Seger's early-70s "Turn the Page." The overlaps are many.

AR glasses need "six degrees of freedom" (6DoF) so they can track your movement through space, and that requires cameras. But those cameras should be low-res monochrome + IR, not high-res color, so they're no good for taking pictures or video. We can have AR glasses without the spying concerns.

Notorious bullshit artist Sam Altman has been telling the press that OpenAI will spend $1.4 trillion in infrastructure by 2030, but OpenAI tells investors something entirely different, that it's only targeting $600 billion. Sam Altman is a criminal. That pig fucker belongs in prison.

Great augmented reality glasses do not need to record images or video to deliver real value. We could have AR glasses that aren't "spy glasses." AR use cases like holographic overlays for navigation and notifications do require sophisticated sensors, but do not require storing images or video.

On the eve of the industry's first true AR glasses launch, Snap's glasses chief has quit. Unlike Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses, Snap Spectacles have the hardware (sensors and binocular see through displays) to show holographic overlays tied to real world objects like walls, buildings or roads.

Facebook changed its name to Meta and spent 10 years and $100B on what Zuck called the future of social networking, headset-based VR worlds. It launched Quest and heavily funded gaming to build a user base but its social pivot failed. Now Meta's trying to salvage it to mobile as a Roblox competitor.

Only you can prevent the fall of civilization. Throw a monkey wrench into their gears at every opportunity.

Zappa was right about so much. I've been a big fan of his music since my dad introduced me to "Hot Rats" when I was 11 and asking about Zappa's Senate testimony on the the PMRC's moralistic music censorship and labeling efforts. Frank was 52, my age, when prostate cancer took him from us :(

Something that hooked me on "Andor" right away was the lack of subtitles for Cassian's childhood scenes on Kenari. Without decipherable dialog, we must engage with the characters' expressions, body language, and movements.This physicality draws us into their world more than dialog ever could.

Bluesky occasionally brings a big smile to my face: I posted an image of an AI CEO delivering a speech with alt text describing the picture as a man standing at a lectern, and it got an immediate like from the account named "I'm a Lectern" @notpodium.bsky.social That's an insta-follow for me. 🧡🧡🧡

Hank was the only decent person in Breaking Bad. Walt was a dick from the start.

AI CEOs must be leaders in AI usage. You can see how much their brains have atrophied as a result. This is Anthropic's CEO delivering a keynote speech at an AI conference attended by world leaders and CEOs from all the major AI companies, from his smartphone.

Every major AI model gets dramatically worse the longer you talk to it. There are big losses in aptitude and even bigger increases in unreliability.

Today's music isn't as good as music from the past almost entirely because it's missing Hammond B-3s played through Leslie speakers. Also, French horns.

A well-trained director and a novice performer may achieve good art. A novice director and well-trained performer can also make good art. An AI bro prompting a bot is usually an extreme example of the latter: a novice director relying almost entirely on expert performers for any artistic success.

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.

Even 13 year old me thought Larry Elmore was at his best when he gave amazing women characters pants and armor. Regardless of what Caldwell, Elmore, and Easley were selling, a lot of which was pretty great, a sword or staff didn't turn a woman in a bathing suit into a believable warrior for me.

We're getting pretty close to concluding that Mars had life in the past.

IBM: “The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those that doubled down on entry-level hiring in this environment.” “We are tripling our entry-level hiring, and yes, that is for software developers and all these jobs we’re being told AI can do.”

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." "lamentations of their women" is wild.

I started with Marlboro Lights in 10th grade. In college I moved to Camel Straights then Lucky Strikes. Dropping filters was to discourage my bum friends from bumming smokes, but also about image. Smoking wasn't just a pastime, it was part of my identity, and Luckies fit my style. (I quit in 1998.)

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EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold from 2023-2024. Meta's glasses are on the same trajectory as its goggles were in their third year. Not very encouraging considering glasses were supposed to be a far easier sell than goggles.

According to Bloomberg, Apple’s long-overdue Siri AI upgrade has run into more snags, pushing it back to iOS 27. Advertised with the launch of iPhone 16 in 2024, these Apple Intelligence features will now likely arrive 2 years later than promised. Apple used to under promise and over deliver :-(

Data centers on the Moon for local Lunar operations make sense, assuming we're going to build a research station there over the next decade. It does not make any sense to put Earth use data centers on the Moon, and you should be skeptical of anyone suggesting it does.

Star Wars is weird at the edges and I love it. Vader's diary was the green-covered private journal of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader. He used it to record his thoughts on his day-to-day life. One record involved his disappointment that the stormtroopers under his command forgot his birthday.

I first saw Mars through a telescope in 3rd grade. I was glued to the TV and web for Pathfinder & Sojourner. I live blogged ~300,000 words from the daily NASA/JPL briefings for the Mars Exploration Rovers. I have been a Mars enthusiast my whole life. I am sad seeing it de-prioritized for the Moon.

GPT-3 arrived in 2020 and kicked off all this AI madness. They told us we were 3-5 years away from AI running entire industries, displacing hundreds of million of workers, and maybe even becoming sentient and a threat to human civilization. 3-5 years, they said. It'll be 6 years this June.

Film friends, With proper lighting, can modern cinecams capture enough, well enough, that we could color grade our way to Technicolor's lush vibrancy? Every time I watch Technicolor films, I'm stunned by how gorgeous they are, and each time I wonder, "why doesn't *anyone* strive for that today?"

I was very good at Frogger. I don't have any proof. You'll just have to take my word for it.

I was there, Gandalf.

Are we winning yet? "The FDA received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events after AI was added to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis. In one case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull."

Tim Cook's desperation for a product legacy, to be remembered as more than a glorified accountant who rode SJ's coattails, led to this monstrosity. He really did believe Apple could brute force face PCs, that we'd replace our iPhones and Macs with this nonsense. Big Tech has lost touch.

Nothing on television before or since gets me this amped up. IYKYK

YouTube search is entirely ruined for me with the latest update. I guess I'll be finding something else to do with the time I spent on that increasingly garbage site.

Using Meta’s reporting, VR and metaverse spending from 2019-2025 is about $101 billion. The Oculus acquisition and estimated spending from 2014-2018 before Meta reported it separately, is about $20 billion. All‑in, Meta has plowed about $120 billion into its VR and metaverse boondoggle. Wild.

Roger Hardy: What the hell are you talking about? Dale Cooper: I'm talking about seeing beyond fear, Roger. About looking at the world with love.

Those AI bros bragging about creating 10K lines of code a day are fools. Code is a liability. The more you have, the worse off you are. The goal should be *fewer* lines of code, not more. LOC is a worthless measure *except* when you're trying to reduce code size and the burdens it carries.

I think I've got this right: Diet Coke (1982) was a new formula, distinct from Coke (1886.) New Coke (1985) was the sugared version of Diet Coke. New Coke failed, Coke Classic (1985) came back, but Diet Coke kept selling. Coke Zero (2005) is a zero‑calorie formula built to taste like Coke Classic.

If you aspire to be mediocre, LLM AI can help you get there. For most, that means delivering far less than what you're capable of, stunting any real growth, and trapping yourself in the mediocrity. There's a better way. It's called "learning."

"They think we'll just sit there and take it like good little boys. That we won't werewolf and go wild!" youtu.be/dlue-wk9lXo?... Joker went hard.

"OpenAI is shifting resources away from long-term research toward improving ChatGPT, prompting departures of senior staff." Incremental improvements and ads. That's the phase we're in now.

Well... I still jerk off manually.

1980s: 1,000 min across 23 episodes in 9 months, 3 months of reruns, repeat. Now: 500 min across 10 episodes in 3 months, 2-3 yrs of nothing.

There's a suspicion that's been growing inside me for a while, at first only gossamer thoughts, materializing and evaporating just as quickly, but it's finally solidifying enough that I'm comfortable sharing it with y'all: These billionaires, they might not actually have our best interests in mind.

I'm surprised the car makers aren't selling ads on our windshields yet.

Take a break from it. If it's important, it will be there tomorrow.