The higher heat in the UK this summer is notable. Nothing’s made for AC, also lots of fields/grasses are yellow
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I love that thoughts are emerging on this. And also I hope we transcend it. We’re likely to have augmentations and they need to have better agency and control than what we have now!
Erik Horn@erikhorn.bsky.social · yesterdayCyborg Glasses Summer thoughts after listening to @scottstein.bsky.social and @ianhamilton.net on @goodvirtualreality.com
I’m going to write a Greek drama about the Jets to deal with the Jets this year
AI is over the top now but we’ve been frogs in the AI pot for a long long time
I never thought A World Appears and The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI would have parallels, but they do. Oh they do
Scenario where AI degrades the internet and everyone becomes super private hyperlocal seems possible
Trump’s “last chance” deadlines are like those carpet stores that are going out of business for 50 years
This is what I want to see more of…the capabilities are fascinating
Oleg Frolov@volorf.bsky.social · 2d agoMade a custom controller for VisionOS. Uses IME to drive discrete directional events and BLE to connect to the device. Apple Vision Pro doesn’t have native controllers, but as an heir to a much more mature OS and ecosystem, it has everything you need to build your own!
I remember seeing the Flesh Fair in Spielberg’s AI and thinking it was silly and tonally off back in 2001. Now it’s the most realistic part of the film
Books I’ll likely read next: The Intuitive Magician The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI Dune Messiah
8. A World Appears, by Michael Pollan Leaving for the countryside, quiet nights and big skies. Finished this book about theories of consciousness that starts heady and ends up lost, meditative. To be here and also not be here. Never been more convinced that AI isn’t the same as consciousness.
Joke administration. Joker administration.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
A trip back to 2016 VR to compare against what’s gone wrong with 2026 smart glasses, with a 2013 Google Glass kicker www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
To Get Beyond ‘Pervert Glasses,’ Meta Should Remember the Lessons of VR - CNET
Commentary: You can’t understand what you can’t see – and the social contracts for smart glasses are still nonexistent.
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Some really thoughtful commentary from @scottstein.bsky.social here about VR headsets and AI glasses. And there’s a quote in here from me! www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
To Get Beyond ‘Pervert Glasses,’ Meta Should Remember the Lessons of VR - CNET
Commentary: You can’t understand what you can’t see – and the social contracts for smart glasses are still nonexistent.
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Hey it's @buzzi.bsky.social AND @scottstein.bsky.social yapping about the Steam Machine?? A must-watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y50U...
Valve's Steam Machine, One Month Later: Is It Worth Buying?
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The run of Yoshi Mysterious Book, StarFox, Rhythm Heaven Groove and Splatoon Raiders may be my favorite 4-game first party Switch stretch in a long time
Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.
If you were sad The Odyssey wasn’t hornier
Scott Stein@scottstein.bsky.social · 6d agoJust a prediction but films over the next four years are going to marvelous
I only read 12-20 books a year, roughly. Wish I read faster but glad to always be reading
Films are never exact versions of books. Adaptations adapt. Recite the epic poem if you prefer that. Or if you want to make a film make a film. Maybe they should have hired a screenwriter. I’m tired of being online. Gonna make dinner
Trying to zag against the zig of an algorithm mirror is a losing game but I like the art movements that push to the post-slop www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
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