Notes for November 1–8

It’s dark and rainy and annoying enough outside that I am both enjoying sitting on the couch with a blanket and pining for my regular walks to the nearest park. And as usual for the season, work is steadily stacking up until the holidays, so this was an even more intense week than the last. But besides reviving another of my MacBooks, I’ve had a couple of free hours here and there to keep track of some stuff… Nature Is Healing Yes, US elections are inescapable, and no, I don’t care about the politics (just their outcomes), but I think this quote from Nilay Patel on the Vergecast (which I watch almost religiously), via Simon Willison’s note, is the best summation of the AI zeitgeist yet: The products aren’t good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history. It’s not worth it. It just isn’t worth it to anyone. And agents aren’t…

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