@simonbs that is the most exciting news possible from WWDC!

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is such a dogs dinner.

I've never experienced what was a wonderful productivity tool (3.5) degrade so suddenly and comprehensively.

Well that’s never happened before…
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We wrote a new post on use of perspective in architectural photography, first of a planned series - let us know what you think!

https://photoephemeris.com/articles/architectural-photography-perspective

#photography #architecture #perspective #art #architecturalphotography

@verge “They also feature several Android-only perks and other conveniences, including IPX4-rated water resistance”. 👀

So they deliberately allow water ingress if connected to iOS prior to submersion?

That sentence could use some editing!

@afewbugs good stuff. I wouldn’t want to be the one to introduce the author to the tautologously named “Table Mesa” in Boulder, Colorado!

Adam Rutherford's written a brilliantly takedown of the "de-extinction" of dire wolves that's up there with the why we'll never colonise Mars piece in terms of pure unadulterated scientific rage at idiocy

https://open.substack.com/pub/arutherford/p/dire-wolves-remain-very-extinct ?

This story is worth your time.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/c82d28d4-ea9c-4bff-bd67-40cb0e503d53?shareToken=f52ea351f65ad2971cc3b22efc48a0fb

Well, this is a catastrophe in the making for Brits abroad. 😞

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/outside-uk-changes

@pilky so sorry to read this - I never met him other than online, but he seemed like a top bloke. Sincere condolences.

@W_Lucht German is making English sound like a very clunky language here!

Was reading this Substack post about US gov cloud servers being pointed at AI companies. It observed that a number of US gov cloud servers on AWS are now pointing to IPs at a company called inventry.ai

https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government

I checked on a few of the IPs mentioned in this writeup, and it checks out. E.g., the IP address 18.253.166.131 from 2020-2024 was tied to us-gov-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com and is part of the gov cloud infrastructure at AWS. Loading that IP into DomainTools Iris, we can see the SSL cert assigned to them is for inventry.ai.

Methinks we need to know more about Inventry.

Help. Does not compute.

This made me laugh - welcome message for a web service I just subscribed to:

"Once the payment has been successfully processed, you will promptly receive your API key. In most cases, this happens within a few seconds, depending on the chosen payment method. However, for European payment methods such as "SEPA" or "Sofort," it may take a few hours or even several days.”

Sounds like an Austrian waiter - “Ja, ja, komme gleich”. Not quite "sofort” then!

@jonmsterling ChatGPTs subtle misstatement of the law of cosines sent me back to an engineering notebook together with paper, pencil and protractor for the first time in 35 years.

I never was much suited for maths!

Scientific American delivers a scathing article about the theologists holding the majority in the US Supreme Court. It’s so good, and so tightly written, that it’s difficult to pull an excerpt without wanting to also include the lead in and follow up. I’ll tempt you with some opening paragraphs, but the article is brilliant and deserves to be read.

“In five instances, Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion confused nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to ozone formation, with nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas.

You can’t make this stuff up. This repeated mistake in the 5–4 decision exemplifies a high court not just indifferent to facts but contemptuous of them.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/

#supremecourt #ScientificAmerican #corruption #failingempire

Languages that depend on whitespace formatting are one of stupidest ideas of the computer age.

How am I supposed to copy and paste from Claude.ai with all this indentation nonsense to worry about?

Tell me I’m wrong!

@markmccaughrean useful info - thank you. I have to renew in the coming months too.

@AkaSci it might be the closest we get to a federal assisted dying law. Just not quite the assistance you were hoping for.

Sell your Tesla. Why?

- Owining it makes people wonder if you’re a creep.
- Increasing used supply drives the price down, gives Musk the finger.
- Also, it’s a death trap.

From @TomWellborn:
https://universeodon.com/@TomWellborn/113472607330092688