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Good luck fitting the CRT in the back of your Honda Prelude.

I walked by the Jello display at Safeway just this evening and was thinking about that very thing. I did not give in, and will live vicariously through you.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 3h

You can't just put that out in the timeline without bringing enough for said timeline, Cates.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 3h

My daughter sent an innocent photo of her and her friend enjoying Lake Tahoe. I used AI to make it appear that she was driving a Cybertruck instead. Dad trolling for the win.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 02/10/2026

The best kind of Doggo.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 02/10/2026

Ever go into a meeting and see an amazing office dog under the table, who wants to be your best buddy? @darthbluesky.bsky.social look at this perfect creature.

A happy golden brown doggo with perfect ears, laying under a table

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 01/10/2026

I'm on our local Little League board. A couple years ago, the VP moved us off Google to Microsoft, completely -- Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint, the whole bit. Such trauma every month when people try to log in to our calls or... deity forbid, share a document.

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👨🏻‍💻☕️ @hunterwalk.com · 01/10/2026

it feels like there are now several feature marketing reminders/popups i need to close on my paid zoom account each time i start/end a meeting contrast that with Google Meet, which has continued to improve in quality and, aside from a Gemini upsell every now and then, JUST WORKS

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 01/10/2026

Tangent: Since moving to Cloud in 2022, the team here refers to Google Workspace as GWS and that's doubly confusing as I hardwired that acronym already.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 01/10/2026

Sorry. Was treating you like an OG. Google web search.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 01/10/2026

I am still a Brian Swetland supporter and you reminded me of all the fun I had carrying a Zip Disk around so I could run BeOS on the Power Macs at work. What do you use instead of GWS?

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 01/10/2026

Was having a conversation with an early career teammate today, and Google Reader came up. I explained its history, needed as it was sunset when she was in fifth grade. Later, we were discussing upcoming concerts, and I said I'd gotten tickets to Moby at the Rose Bowl. Her: Who's Moby? 🪦

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The new BMW 3 series is available in both gas and EV variants. The EV variant: 💸 - $4k cheaper than the gas M variant w/ same performance 🏃‍♂️- gets over 400 miles of range and ⚡️ - can add 200 miles in 10 minutes of charging It’s time to stop making gas cars. apple.news/Az8vujjaVS72...

apple.news

BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. — TechCrunch

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 30/09/2026

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model 9to5google.com/2026/09/30/g... "Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s “next era of frontier intelligence” and built for “deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows.” /by @technacity.bsky.social for @9to5google.com

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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model

Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s “next era of frontier intelligence” and built for “deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 30/09/2026

Keep Off the Grass www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36U... A YouTube explainer on how to respond when the AI labs suggest we should slow down.

youtube.com

THE GRASS : Part 1

YouTube video by Ari K

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 30/09/2026

"Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform." Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...

techcrunch.com

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 30/09/2026

Marissa Mayer is back with a new initiative called Dazzle, which learns from your photos to become a personalized AI assistant. "Dazzle turns your camera button into a “get it done” button..." "Pictures, Not Prompts". dazzle.ai/blog/

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Blog – Dazzle

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 30/09/2026

Surveillance Finds a Way www.404media.co/surveillance... "One company’s red line is another company’s business opportunity..." /by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for @404media.co

404media.co

Surveillance Finds a Way

CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 30/09/2026

I just checked all my pockets to look for my earbuds, while actively using them.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 29/09/2026

This year's fantasy football champions will be determined by who writes the best prompts.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 29/09/2026

Buck was fantastic. What a storyteller. So glad I was able to tune in.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 29/09/2026

"All of this was avoidable. None of it is surprising. And it leaves big, big question marks about whether American firms can stay relevant globally." America's Clean Car Retreat Is Complete. The World Will Move On Without Us insideevs.com/features/809... /by @mackhogan.bsky.social @insideevs.com

insideevs.com

America's Clean Car Retreat Is Complete. The World Will Move On Without Us

The U.S. just loosened fuel economy rules, slowing the auto industry's transition to EVs. But Europe and China aren't going to wait up for us.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 28/09/2026

They both consume significant amounts of water.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 28/09/2026

Question: Has anybody ever seen Jimothy and @darthbluesky.bsky.social at the same time?

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 28/09/2026

In my post "damn Claude, that's a lot of commits" aifoc.us/damn-claude-thats-a-lot-of-commits/ I found that in March, users of Claude made about 2.6 million public, Claude attributed commits a week. I just ran the same script again, it's now about 7m a week (in just 6 months)

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 27/09/2026

I was just talking about this with my 16 year old. It happens so fast and it's easy to say it's 100% dirty, but you're taught to make the big hit and by sliding, the area for contact really is limited.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 25/09/2026

A week later, I still have Tove Lo's new album on repeat. Top tracks: the bad one -- this is such an earworm, I love it die for my art with a lonely heart F.A.M.T Huge respect for her work. Even got me going back to revisit her older albums.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 23/09/2026

Back in 1989, A's radio ran commercials with Canseco and his expectations about repeating his 40/40 MVP year. He quipped, "probably 50/50".

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 23/09/2026

@sandwichpick.bsky.social Isolated stat data I observed in yesterday's low quality LAA/ATH match: Zach Neto SLG: .432 Alika Williams SLG: .427 Mike Trout SLG: .424 🤔

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 22/09/2026

"In Mr. Srinivasan’s vision, online communities bound by shared values eventually crowd-fund physical territory, form mini nations with their own laws and secure diplomatic recognition from existing states." This is a commune. You're describing a commune. It's been done.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 21/09/2026

I am more confident with Waymo's safety than pretty much any human driver -- and dramatically beyond any other autonomous offering trying to catch up.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 21/09/2026

Excuse me, professor brainiac, but any web site in 2012 doesn't yet count as classic. /cc @ricmac.org

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 18/09/2026

The highlight reel shows he has good stuff, but his WHIP throughout his career has been high, even with a 2.2 K/BB ratio. This makes we wonder about the BABIP and well, that's too much rabbit hole.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 18/09/2026

Music news! Tove Lo has a new album out, called Estrus. 13 tracks for just over 32 minutes. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6di14t... YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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ESTRUS - Album by Tove Lo | Spotify

Tove Lo · album · 2026 · 13 songs

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Why would they build a cyclotron way up on a hill?! Oh ok nevermind I get it. 🧪

The view from the 88" cyclotron at Berkeley Lab. Some clouds and fog hang over the san francisco bay area seen from a high elevation. The campanille of Berkeley is to the left, a tree to the right. The bay runs through the middle of the picture with san francisco, the golden gate bridge is visible in the distant right. It is early in the morning, and I think conveys a feeling of coolness, beauty, and scale.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 16/09/2026

You said "fruit fly brain" and it just screamed Stanford, Jessica.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 16/09/2026

So much more capable than a typical Stanford student brain.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 16/09/2026

First they came for those who fornicate with critters, and I did not speak up, because I do not diddle the doggo.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 15/09/2026

I've got 99 problems, and apparently, Mitch is one again.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 14/09/2026

Last I checked, elements weren't raised on a farm.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 14/09/2026

All the best elements were discovered at Berkeley. Still no Stanfordium.

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 14/09/2026

Google: Here's a white paper that spells out how you can build amazing frontier models to kick off the AI race. AI companies: Whoa, this is amazing... look at our new AI models! (Time passes) AI companies: Wait. We're out of ideas. You have any more of those cool white papers?

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 13/09/2026

1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs presents to the International Design Conference in Aspen. His vision of the inevitability of computer advancement and integration with our lives, remarkably prescient. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Hm...

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A 28-year-old Steve Jobs gives a talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen

YouTube video by Steve Jobs Archive

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Louis Gray @louisgray.com · 12/09/2026

Steve Jobs speaks at MIT in 1992 on Next, business and technology strategy. Fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUh... /via @ogrady.ai

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Steve Jobs MIT 1992: Steve Jobs Talk, Steve Jobs Speech

YouTube video by JC

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