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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

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Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 24/09/2026

‘That is a staggering 3.6% of gross domestic product a year, on average. Never before has the U.S. economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry.’ The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History (gift) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 24/09/2026

‘I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database.’ www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...

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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 23/09/2026

‘So far, it has captured more than 10 million TikToks, a quarter-million podcast episodes and thousands of Instagram videos and cable segments.’ MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump. We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now. (gift) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 23/09/2026

‘the circuses are bad, and the bread is expensive’

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 22/09/2026

Wow. @jackrhysider.bsky.social (Darknet Diaries) just released a new podcast. Looks very good: thisislow.com 👆 Interesting: he links to @johnspurlock.com's OP3 open stats on the homepage.

thisislow.com

LOW — A Podcast

LOW is a podcast about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 22/09/2026

‘producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it’

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Sascha Diercks 🇪🇺 @saschadiercks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

TIL @pocketcasts.com has an AppleTV app now. Nice 🙂

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

changes to the Apple Podcasts app in 27.2 beta 1:

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

let's see what's changed between 27.0 rc and 27.2 beta 1: #wwdc - AppIntents: lots of churn (this framework must be auto-generated) but this is a 27.2-only item: CaseDisplayRepresentable.caseDisplayRepresentations Beta developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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caseDisplayRepresentations | Apple Developer Documentation

A dictionary that maps each value to the visual elements that represent it.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 13/09/2026

clod, on the aws console agi achieved

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 12/09/2026

‘The future may not be a few huge apps running on a few huge platforms, generating tons of revenue; it could instead be tons of little ones, purpose-built for the church, mutual aid group, company department or softball league.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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one thing I haven't heard anyone mention, but noticed yesterday when upgrading the new apple watch back side went from sapphire crystal to zirconia on both the series 12 and the ultra 4 alert r/shrinkflation

Scripting News: 9/11/2001

‘Someday soon every home will have a weblog, and we'll have great aggregation tools that allow us to quickly assemble lists of loved ones who survived. A new button on cellphones that says "I made it" and it flows the fact to all your concerned friends.’ scripting.com/2001/09/11.h...

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jazz trio in madison square park on Monday beautiful day in nyc

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

‘These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, using Claude to design guidance software. They did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.’ www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

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Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 10/09/2026

amanda peet keeps track of her playback position in podcasts by taking screenshots ‘You can probably do it in an easier way.’ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 10/09/2026

nice visualizations in this ft article ig.ft.com/golden-dome/...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 10/09/2026

can you _imagine_ what stunts anthropic has planned for around the IPO timeline in a few months? gonna be great

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I resigned from Acme Corporation today. I spent the last three years doing pre-gag research at both Acme Paint and the broader Acme Corporation. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-painting fake tunnel technology and gambling with our lives.

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only thing that really surprised me from today's apple thing was the new "audio intelligence" features on the watches, specifically "rewind" and "recap" it's some low percentage creep-factor of facebook glasses, but certainly non-zero www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

imagining the new iphone duo section in the new york philharmonic www.swiftjectivec.com/iphone-duo-f...

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

‘"As you have seen from Matt's previous messages, Automattic's board has decided to ask Matt to step away from his CEO role and take a leave of absence,” Schneider wrote. “We have asked Mark Davies to assume the interim CEO role while Matt is out.”’ www.404media.co/wordpress-au...

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Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

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ancillaryDataEncoder | Apple Developer Documentation

alright, already seeing a number of iOS 27 API things in rc held back from previous betas: #wwdc - AVFoundation: ancillaryDataEncoder The AVCaptureAncillaryDataEncoder that sends per-frame lens/camera/user-defined acquisition data along with the video buffer. developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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The AVCaptureAncillaryDataEncoder that sends per-frame lens/camera/user-defined acquisition data along with the video buffer.

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uh oh "for a clear call" someone used clod for their apple event segment

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was hoping they would try live again instead, apple apparently doubling down on hostage-video speaking style

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Human slop - Max Chernyak

‘You live a mindful life full of meditative, self-reflective bragging in public. You are followed by young hustle porn fiends thinking mistakenly that munching your ego-waffle is exactly the inspiration they need to make something of themselves.’ max.engineer/human-slop

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Less performative social media, please

John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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A vision of Skyline chili-washed bourbon just appeared before me. M

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 08/09/2026

‘I used to read Ed Zitron’

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 04/09/2026

‘From story to stream — without the friction.’ these ai-make-me-a-site all look the same to me, but I admit I probably see more than most localpod.co

localpod.co

The podcast platform built for digital publishers

Turn your existing articles into broadcast-quality podcasts — automatically. No studio. No staff. No extra hours.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 04/09/2026

‘Our current structure was built for a different media landscape.’ x.com/benmullin/st...

John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 03/09/2026

totally normal domain name, zero point zero red flags

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 03/09/2026

‘“And why, if you please, did you become a cog or continue to be a cog under such circumstances?”’ The cog rationale breaks down as human cogs always choose whether or not to be cogs, and if so, how they turn.’ imperfectnotes.substack.com/p/pace-and-r...

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Pace and race

Cog and wheel

John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 02/09/2026

‘But these lengthy e-mails, customized for me, purport to be personal communications when they really aren’t. Sometimes I’ll reply with questions or feedback, and it feels like the entire conversation is with an AI.’ mjtsai.com/blog/2026/09...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 02/09/2026

👀 👀 👀 Introducing Whole-Home WiFi by UniFi www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6G...

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Introducing: Whole Home Wi-Fi by UniFi

YouTube video by Ubiquiti