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Herodotus. The rest of the world.

At some point, some DIY person will come up with a way to disable these things in their presence. And they will make bank.

MCPs could learn a thing or two from the failures of ActiveX. Will they? No…

Web4? Seriously?

There’s a reason that sign is there.

These are all the Least Worst solutions. I humbly disagree.

Question is, how long before it makes it to the next DGX Spark? Some people don’t have $10B to burn.

370 BC? The beards need to be way more fierce.

Viagra

Cardinal rule of branding. Exposure is the name of the game. The more eyeballs see your thing, the better. As long as it’s not adjacent to bad things. This could end really well, or really, badly, extremely not. 🍿

I’ve been a big fan of Pebble and ordered all their original Kickstarter devices. Stoked when they were resurrected. But this device just sounds dumbass to me. Their new watches have microphones and their mobile software has a small model embedded in it. Just use the watch. You can also do everything this thing does by just dictating into a mobile notes app. Both iOS and Android to on-device text to speech. The only reason to have this ring is for a single function, and the non-rechargeable battery just reeks of a rushed design job, or a toy the CEO wanted to play with and nobody dared say No!

That I slept through the Rapture. Again.

They write some of the best post-mortems out there. No “mistakes were made” nonsense. We done f-ed up. Here’s how and why, and what we’re doing about it.

I smell an AI lurking somewhere in the shadows.