Interesting... Movie title + runtime queries seem to consistently break AI Overviews on mobile. AIO isn't triggered on desktop for the handful of queries I attempted.

Yesterday we talked a little bit about SNAP ending and how everyone who can, should give back to their communities. I'm going to spend a little time today talking about what to give.

On 11/1, ~42 million Americans will lose federal SNAP benefits. For those paycheck-to-paycheck, already on the brink of food insecurity, this is terrifying. Consider a monthly donation to a food bank like Second Harvest (www.shfb.org), they know what is needed & can spend efficiently buying in bulk.

Loved the light show for Minami Deutsch at the Santa Cruz Vets Hall last night.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

We're deep in the best musical season. I've been adding to this Fall playlist since 2013, a collection of gloomy/spooky songs to get you in the Halloween spirit, and I'm stoked with how it turned out 🎃 🎶 Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🎶 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6OL...

I feel a *tiny* pang of guilt when marking democratic political campaign txts as spam. Like, yes, they're 100% spam, like dozens of other unsolicited texts/calls I get each day, but I don't want to hinder the PAC's ability to hassle other libs who need daily reminders of their guilt & powerlessness.

I've had a handful of epic trailrunning adventures recently, as the lines between fall and winter blur. Here's some shots from the eastern sierras, where firey aspens and an epic supermoon kept my camera working overtime.

I haven’t paid attention to AFI in a long time, but their latest (“Silver Bleeds the Black Sun”) sounds more like The Cure & Sisters of Mercy than the AFI I grew up on (no longer “goth punk”, this is straight goth) and I love it. Perfect Fall / Halloween listening. music.apple.com/us/album/beh...

I only took one photo at Autechre last night before they shut off all of the lights. The next 80 minutes were intense, beautiful, disorienting, at times formless, heavily percussive, challenging, and I loved every minute of it. Incredibly unique and memorable experience that I won’t soon forget.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Supermoon in the eastern sierras 🌕

Tis the season 🎃 🦇

Air playing “Sexy Boy” as the silhouette of an unfortunately-positioned security staffer not-so-subtlety digs for gold is… some type of vibe. Cal Coast Credit something or other amphitheater in San Diego last night. Incredible show, amazing stage production.

#BrightonSEO run club and a San Diego sunrise

Good morning San Diego! Got some early miles in before #BrightonSEO kicks off. I may be one of five people using that hashtag, but I’m gonna lean into it. Feels like Twitter circa 2008.

My long journey to #BrightonSEO San Diego begins with a 5am bike ride to catch a sunrise ferry from Lopez Island

Just spent the last week riding the San Juan Islands in Washington: Orcas, San Juan, Lopez, and Anacortes with an A+ crew of new friends from all over the country. Beautiful scenery and incredible weather all week.

Epic trail run along the PCT (Kendall Katwalk) in Washington this morning. Beautiful wildflowers, old growth forest and delicious blackberries all along the trail.

I'm headed to New Orleans to see family in Nov. I've been to NOLA several times, but always for Jazzfest, bachelor parties, etc. Proximity to bars/etc isn't a priority, but I'd love to get some good runs in. Any recs of neighborhoods to stay in? Let's see if crowdsourced travel tips work on here.

Them Santa Monica Mountains looking mighty fine this morning.

@numetalmoment.bsky.social I was not expecting this (Alien Earth, episode 2)

A magical sunrise above the clouds earlier this morning, from a trail run in Bonny Doon

Deftones have been my favorite band since high school, early 2000s. Wild to see how they've blown up recently, playing huge venues like MSG. I love that new generations of fans are finding this music. I took these photos on an iPhone 4 when they played the Troubadour in LA (500 capacity!) in 2012.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Glass Beams at the Catalyst last night. Great show, high energy dark hypnotic grooves. Would benefit from a longer show (they played for ~45 min), but perhaps I’m just spoiled by 3 hour jam band shows.

Taking a swing at homemade pique (puerto rican hot sauce), inspired by Sol Food in San Rafael. Penny is exhausted from a long trail run earlier today. These dogs didn’t help one bit.

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You'll never believe the cheap tactic this SF Publisher is leveraging to drive resentful clicks.

This Hard Fork interview w/ Matthew Prince (Cloudflare CEO) is great. His summary of how the content ecosystem is supposed to work, how gen AI tools are breaking the implicit promise from Google to publishers, and his vision for how to save that ecosystem (and the web as we know it) are inspiring.

A quick run through the enchanted redwoods of Soberanes Canyon and up above the clouds just before sunset last night. Garrapata State Park, Big Sur 🌲

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

7am John purchased a ticket for Blood Incantation at The Wiltern so that 7pm John can't bail on the show after a long day of work... The most wonderful form of self-sabotage.

Spent the weekend backpacking Desolation Wilderness, near Lake Tahoe. We hauled a SUP out there! Difficult to describe how beautiful Desolation is, but it's access to areas like these that keep me in California.

Fall Creek morning bliss 🌲 // derpy dog sunflower 🌻

King Gizzard making me proud to be a long-time fan. I love these guys. They pulled their entire library off of Spotify, and I feel like they're big enough to actually make a small difference. Good fuckin' riddance, Spotify.

On aging: these words from Michael Tobin jumped out at me.

"there’s no indication in Pew’s research that people understand how faulty the technology that powers Google’s AI Overview is, or how it is quietly devastating the entire human online information economy that they want and need, even if they don’t realize it."

There's not much to say about Ozzy that hasn't already been said. He was instrumental in my musical journey as a teen. Seeing Black Sabbath in 2013 was a peak concert experience. The man raised $190 million for children's hospitals on his way out. What a legend. RIP to the Prince of Darkness.

I've never seen this particular brand of spam... These top 3 News results redirect to spammy-looking "wealth trading" WhatsApp groups 👀 @johnmu.com

Early morning 20 miler with a great crew and perfect Santa Cruz weather. Pogonip, Wilder Ranch, UCSC trails #trailrunning

AI is the future, y'all 👀 @edzitron.com

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Anytime I'm forced to use Workday for something, inevitably I have several WTF moments. Today's WTF moment is this option to choose between HTTP and HTTPS protocol when inserting a link... and it defaults to HTTP. Seriously, what's the use case here?

Love this art (from local artist Yeshe Jackson) that just went up outside the trailhead down the road from me (the salmon art has been there for a bit). Nature art displayed in nature like this is just so pleasant 😊

Memphis is very excited to attend the Frankie & The Witch Fingers show at the Felton Music Hall tomorrow night 👅

SF/Bay Area folks, anyone want (free) tickets to Phantogram at Stern Grove this afternoon? I can’t make it and would hate for them to go to waste.

I'm not sure I've seen a less helpful AI Overview than this one. Thanks for explaining my search operators to me, Google.

Do it! 5calls.org makes it so damn easy to call your rep's office and voice your concerns - it couldn't be any easier. Take 3 minutes out of your day for this.

Almost ran into this big old bull moose in the middle of a trail run in Golden Gate Canyon State Park yesterday 🫎 😱 There were 2 of them, the other took off as soon as it heard me coming.