The TikTok Ban Lasted About Fourteen Hours
TikTok went dark Saturday night and came back Sunday, but it's still missing from the app stores — and the real story might be the mass migration to RedNote that happened days before any of it.
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The RTX 5070's "4090 Performance" Claim Has an Asterisk
Nvidia's CES keynote claimed the $549 RTX 5070 matches a $1,599 RTX 4090, but that number leans hard on AI frame generation, not raw horsepower.
A $3,000 AI Box and the Ghost of GPU Launches Past
Nvidia's CES keynote promised a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer, but after years of GPU launch-day scalping I'm not holding my breath until it's actually on a shelf.
The Car Had an Alibi
The Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas got solved in a day thanks to remote vehicle telemetry, and that's a lot more interesting (and unsettling) than the headlines let on.
Finally Switched to Bluesky (Two Months Late)
A personal, late-December account of finally abandoning X for Bluesky, mid platform-migration, complete with radiator complaints and starter-pack side-eye.
The Sora Leak Nobody Asked Permission For
Artists with early Sora access leaked the tool on Hugging Face days before OpenAI's official launch, and my own first attempts at generating video left me underwhelmed anyway.
A Photo That Turns Into a World You Can Walk Into
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 turns a single still image into a playable, walkable 3D world for about a minute at a time, and it left me more unsettled than impressed.
I Spent Sunday Night Wiring Claude Up To My Own Files
Anthropic quietly shipped a new open protocol last week for hooking AI assistants up to your local files and apps. I tried it on Claude Desktop and it mostly worked, after some JSON wrangling.
Bluesky Finally Stuck for Me, and I Think It's the Starter Packs
Ive tried Bluesky three separate times since 2023 and bounced every time. The post-election exodus off X finally made it stick, and I think Starter Packs are the actual reason why.
Everyone I Know Just Rejoined Bluesky
A week after the election, Bluesky is suddenly full of people who swore they'd never leave X. Some notes on signing back in, starter packs, and why this exodus feels different from the Mastodon one.
My Colorsoft Has the Yellow Screen Thing Too
My new Kindle Colorsoft arrived this week and it's great, except for the yellow tint a lot of early units (including mine, faintly) seem to have along the bottom of the screen.
The Wayback Machine Outage Freaked Me Out More Than It Should Have
After the Internet Archive's October breach and DDoS attacks knocked the Wayback Machine offline, I went looking for a dead link in a 2013 post and finally got serious about backing up my own site.