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For kids playing dressup and role model purposes, if they are going to reboot the sequels they should reboot Rey and Kylo. Same rough characters, new story.

Nobody struggles with multiple Joker variants running around. Batman is still Batman.

I use Pass2U Wallet and set a location, if I end up at near Children's Museum or Community Center, my ID is ready.

Pass2U Wallet works great, but like many apps, it really should just be a feature to begin with.

You can also make passes for other people and send them / share them.

Looks like someone else recommended a competitor Pass4 Wallet as well, may need to go compare.

3% at restaurants is offset by 3% fee to use cards at restaurants. this benefit is evaporating.

not an argument for or against cards, but they are becoming closer to neutral than a discount.

The Top 40 songs were already soulless.

Now that anyone can generate a halfway decent pop song at the snap of the finger leads to one of three outcomes. We all just listen to our own interactive stations and have no shared culture, pressure is put on industry to differentiate with a higher quality product, the technology is democratizing and unlocks a new generation of creatives who are able to work with it creating an amplified output.

I would take every news site delivering straight text, and letting me pick the page layout template to apply to all of them. Some kind of markup language that could be transmitted and then respect the users preferences as far as rendering.

do you have the most up to date version?

You're ignoring what I said. They work better when turning it into a two step process. Step 1 create a template. Step 2 execute the template.

>The large models have already ingested plenty of New Yorker, NYT, The Times, FT, The Economist etc articles

And that ends up diluting them. Going back and doing another pass on only a subset would give them stronger voice. At some threshold, scanning information brings it to average and a return to the mean, instead of increasing the information. It's a giant table of word associations, it can regress.

a solution in search of a problem. everyone can open a powerpoint in google docs, hotmail, libreoffice etc.

now the person receiving the file has a DIFFERENT experience than they are used to with every other presentation. different hotkeys, different troubleshooting.

I don't consider giving a kid a phone in guided access with calculator up to be addictive or something that should be illegal.

Same applies to guided access and a facetime call. I dont want them to switch apps or hang up the call, the phone gets locked down.

well, and this bill literally only makes you prove age to ... set up the device.

how are we in 2026 and phones dont have guest mode or "i handed it to my kid mode"

apple's guided access is a terrible 1% solution to the problem. in one click i should be able to put my phone into some kind of locked down mode that exposes only what is allowed, starting with nothing unless whitelisted, with multiple profiles.

in the same sense, all the streaming services having their own separate kids profiles, instead of the streaming device having a single kids mode that exposes only the kids mode content from each app makes kids mode useless when a kid can just change the app, or gets stick into a single provider and i have to go help them switch.

the answer, as always, is always a protocol.

the major players need to allow me to elect one of them as my family manager, and control permissions across ecosystems, from my management portal. i should be able to freely swap apple, google, microsoft, facebook, or a startup as my management and permissions tool.

instead I have a disparate management account and portal for every service on the planet. roblox, fortnite, facebook all want to appear to "make it easy" as if they hold the delusional belief that their management portal is the only one I have to manage. then add a spouse that also wants to change or tinker a setting.

if any law is going to get passed: it should be that any company over a certain size, who adds parental controls, needs to expose them externally to 3rd party management software.

need a network level dearrow for all the other devices and tvs on the network.

Or you could just talk to powerpoint, which creates a self contained pptx, which also plays anywhere.

we've hit this point where its cool to have claude reinvent every wheel just because it can.

it was a good name when chosen. too bad they have burned bob, clippy, cortana, sydney, and copilot already.

their app has some very strange flow to it, i cant tell if it feels designed by committee or if there are just so many strange use cases that its somehow the least bad given some arbitrary constraints i cant begin to understand.

even selecting my restaurant is a constant battle. the closest restaurant to my house as the bird flies is not the closest restaurant. even the closest by miles driven involves much more complication than the one i always want to pick. it constantly battles me that i have selected a suboptimal choice. maybe learn that when i am at home, i want to default to my preferred choice, every time, unless i say otherwise.

Maybe in one shot.

In theory I would expect them to be able to ingest the corpus of the new yorker and turn it into a template with sub-templates, and then be able to rehydrate those templates.

The harder part seems to be synthesizing new connection from two adjacent ideas. They like to take x and y and create x+y instead of x+y+z.

To the point that defense spending prevents us from publishing an accurate financial statement for soon to be 30 years running.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a disclaimer of opinion on the U.S. government’s FY 2025 financial statements — the 29th consecutive year it has been unable to determine whether the statements are fairly presented. This is primarily due to serious, ongoing financial management problems at the Department of Defense and weaknesses in accounting for interagency transactions.

Watching Mark testify before the senate it honestly appears like it may have never occurred to him that it is an option to have not offered a feature. He treats the product as if it is some kind of inevitable outcome that was destined to exist.

build archiving into the protocol. let anyone spin up a mirror node of something else.

I’m not specifically saying to use those protocols as much as the philosophy of hashes pointing to blocks that are redundantly spread far and wide.

Minecraft servers are a poor metaphor for what ideal decentralized social media should look like. They are the opposite of robust.

I guess I’d rather have something approaching bittorrent, edonkey/kad, ipfs, blockchain, webarchives.

You have named networks that are federated together, and people can publish to the networks they are invited to or sign up for. The networks survive even with individual servers go down. Data is cached all over at the edges.

Your version is just way too susceptible to rot, unless you see that as a feature. I see it as most of the good content falling into the ether sooner rather than later.

Also can use people viewing the pages as hosts https://gabe.durazo.us/tech/ephemeral-p2p-project/

How would you overcome a local llm embedded into a keyboard?

Specs only really matter to many relative to battery life. A higher specced system may unnecessarily burn energy.

The thing about "switching" is you just need to capture the next generation. Kids who have an iPhone 17e. Then go off to college.

Which part is sensitive? Social is public, income is private but what is someone going to do with it?

Id argue humans have some sort of parallelness going on that machines dont yet. Thoughts happening at multiple abstraction levels simultaneously. As I am doing something, I am also running the continuous improvement cycle in my head, at all four steps concurrently. Is this working, is this the right direction, does this validate?

You could build layers and layers of LLMs watching the output of each others thoughts and offering different commentary as they go, folding all the thoughts back together at the end. Currently, a group of agents acts more like a discussion than something somewhat omnipotent or omnitemporal.

"Reasoning" needs to go back to the drawing board.

Reasonable tasks need to be converted into formal logic, calculated and computed like a standard evaluation, and then translated back into english or language of choice.

LLMs are being used to think when really they should be the interpret and render steps with something more deterministic in the middle.

Translate -> Reason -> Store to Database. Rinse Repeat. Now the context can call from the database of facts.

and an aluminum case may last 30% longer than plastic.

>ChatGPT image gen is just straight up better

Yet so much slower than Gemini / Nano Banana to make it almost unusable for anything iterative.