v55 - I'm a good guyjin

We cut our trip a day short, so I found myself with a totally free day with no plans. Naturally, I wasted it by recording a 3-hour podcast. Dang.

I always enjoy shooting the shit with/at you, and if you'd like to be a more active participant in the shit-shooting, then hit me up at podcast@searls.co. Really, I'll be nicer to you than I am to Sam Altman and Tang Tan. I promise.

Back to manually writing links. The zen of monotonous input tasks is suddenly something to be cherished in the current era.

• Mandibular Advancement Device
• Better With Becky
• Why doesn't the U.S. have small elevators like Europe and China? (News+)
• My 240hz gaming QD-OLED (and this bizarre Reddit review)
• App market share is tough apparently
• Aaron's puns, ranked
• Apple Upgrade Program
  • Apple might lojack your phone
  • They promise not to, though
• Apple's MapKit tech will underlie Ford's EV platform
• Tim Cook EGOTed (EGOT's origin)
• The Information on Apple's Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work (Archive)
• OpenAI: Apple is getting this wrong
• Google adds selfie as a login mechanism
• A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison
• GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (Plausible deniability, meanwhile)
• YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is 'not healthy'
• Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
• Gas Town was a fucking joke
• Ed Zitron seems too sure that markets are rational
• Square Enix denies claims its Kingdom Hearts Collection artwork was AI-generated, blames 'human error'
• YouTube labels Kurzsegagt AI slop (Real Engineering's reaction video)
• OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000
• Xbox's 'disc to digital' feature could be coming as soon as this month
• Halo: Campaign Evolved
• Jurassic World Rebirth
  • 金曜ロードショー
  • Chicken Ramen commercials
• Lazy Kickers
• The Hot Spot
• Ohashi Trio
  • Apple Music
  • Spotify
• Ocarina of Time soundtrack by the Beatuls
• The Prime Minister of Japan does not sleep (forgot to actually answer the fucking question, oops)