Brad Barrish

I’m excited to play around with ente, a new open-source, encrypted and private photo service and app that has been in the making for some time. I’m not sure I can be bothered to switch away from Apple Photos and Google Photos, which I find to be a better product, but I love ente’s mission.

I appreciate the thought that Adam is putting into omg.lol’s stance on generative AI. I’m still formulating my own personal policy, which of course is different than a policy for a platform. Given how fast things are changing, I feel an obligation to use all of the tools a lot. I don’t believe you can formulate informed positions on things by taking other people’s word for how you should think about them. You have to use them and do some soul searching of your own. One thing that is non-negotiable is that we MUST figure out how to get artists paid for their work. I fear it will ultimately be the pennies music artists see from streaming, but it can’t be nothing. The central issue of provenance must be solved. It’s a difficult problem, but then so is getting a computer to “think”.

I don’t plan to talk about the news often, but OpenAI closed the largest round on record – a whopping $40B, valuing the company at $300B, which is absolutely bonkers.

Andrej Karpathy finds the best sleep tracker. I don’t wanna spoil it for you, so I’ll just say I was happy to see where he landed.

Simon Willison posted a quote from this great read by Ned Batchelder today. It’s one of those great posts you can send to your non-technical friends as well.

Winnie’s latest post was a wonderful read, especially her point about being relentlessly bombarded with psychological noise. It is not uncommon to catch myself thinking a certain way about something only to realize it doesn’t feel right. It’s almost always because the thought isn’t actually mine.