I finally tried Lensa's Magic Avatars this week and came away with fifty fantasy-novel versions of myself, some real questions about where the training data came from, and a warning about the subscription toggle.
While everyone's group chat was full of chatbot screenshots this week, NASA's Orion capsule quietly buzzed the Moon at under 80 miles and almost nobody noticed.
A rundown of what I actually bought (and put back) over Black Friday weekend, plus some dish-washing time spent watching Orion swing past the Moon.
I spent Black Friday weekend setting up Mastodon instead of shopping, and the hardest part wasn't the app, it was just picking a server.
I stayed up until 1:47 in the morning to watch Artemis I finally leave the pad after three scrubbed attempts and a run-in with a hurricane, and it was worth losing the sleep.
Staying up until 1:47 a.m. to watch Artemis I finally leave the pad, and some thoughts on why a successful Moon rocket launch barely made a dent in a feed full of Twitter and FTX chaos.
Artemis I finally launched early this morning after three scrubbed attempts. I stayed up to watch it, and it was worth losing the sleep.
I paid $8 for a Twitter blue checkmark out of curiosity and watched it break the internet's trust signals in under 48 hours, fake Eli Lilly tweet and all.
Twitter's $7.99 Blue checkmark started rolling out this week and it's already impossible to tell who's actually verified versus who just paid. Some thoughts on trust signals, plus the Meta layoffs that landed the same week.
A practical, no-hype walkthrough of setting up a Mastodon account this week, including the server-picking confusion nobody warns you about.
A leaked balance sheet shows Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm Alameda Research is sitting on billions of dollars of a token it basically made up itself, and something about that number won't leave me alone.
Musk's $8 Twitter Blue checkmark plan turns verification into a purchase instead of a fact — plus a weekend spent poking around a laggy Mastodon instance.
