Anecdotally, Iā€™m seeing a lot more robots around Los Angeles. More Waymo vehicles (vans are being tested) and the delivery robots are everywhere. Just yesterday I saw a delivery robot rolling across a crosswalk and a driverless Waymo vehicle stopped to let it cross.

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I’ve never attended a high school reunion (and don’t ever plan to) and there are only a few old friends from my childhood that I keep in touch with. I got to spend time with one today, which was really nice. We hadn’t seen one another for nearly 20 years, but we’ve kept in sporadic touch.

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I took the plunge this evening. I now have the Tahoe developer betas running on my iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and MacBook Pro. I had previously only had it running on my iPad and MacBook Pro. On the MBP, it is running on a separate volume, which seems to work well.

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These new NATTBAD (not bad?) Bluetooth speakers from IKEA are cute. I’m sure they don’t sound great though. So bummed the Sonos partnership fizzled. I still love my SYMFONISK, which is wall-mounted in our master bathroom and doubles as a shelf above the toilet.

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šŸšØ Attention coffee lovers ā˜• The Moccamaster KBGV Select is 45% off on Amazon! Look at this beauty!

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Got my invite to Perplexity’s new Chromium browser called Comet. Similar to Dia, I understand why AI browsers might be a thing for some people, but I really haven’t found a solid use for them yet. I do appreciate that the AI stuff is subtle and not in-your-face.

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Whether you put the cart in the correct place after loading your car with groceries tells me everything I need to know about you.

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