Notices by Merlin Mann (hotdogsladies@mastodon.social)

@kjhealy

You totally get it.

If you want to understand any environment, you have to look at its ad hoc signage.

"She's gone, sir. They've all gone. And we're BACK."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVEHqwLVvpI

"In every actress's life, the media decides when you finally reach the point where you're not believably fuckable anymore."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpsI8mWKmg

Hello.

I work at Apple, and I enjoy wearing human clothes.

I mean clothes.

Haha. That was funny.

As you know, I am, like you, a human.

Hello.

Just to say that an old passion project of mine has finally found a home.

https://share.contiguous.me/share/my-father/

No big surprise here.

I've recently learned that Season Two of "The Crown" is my sexual orientation.

Thank you in advance for quietly admiring my brave journey.

San Francisco has lots of right angles, but just not at the same time.

"Every day, somebody's born who's never seen 'The Flintstones.'"

https://gist.github.com/merlinmann/03c6ab98147eb17d388ef5ab9a67d349

This is one of my favorite things I've written this year.

I hope it helps you a little.

https://merlin.ghost.io/that-was-good/

Meanwhile, over in the Trump-58163 universe.

My Mac just autocorrected "Bitchin' Camaro" to "Bitcoin Camaro" so I just wanted to quickly say my goodbyes before I walk into the sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeY2nut3Gj8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System

New Contrapoints.

Stay hydrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

Good thing my month needed to get dumber.

He even made a YouTube face.

Speaking of Spotify Wrapped, Billy turned me on to an app for getting stats from Spotify and Apple Music, and it’s pretty fascinating.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stats-fm-for-spotify-music-app/id1526912392

It's wild how many "natural" things keep happening because of human activity.

Almost as though they are somehow…related?

bum bum BUM!

😬👍

Category 3 is what Katrina was.

They should say that a lot.

I feel like something very grave is happening with Donald Trump's white balance.

OpenAI-o1.

Again, that is the letter "o." Not a zero.

Of course I'm enthusiastic to try this, but these Abbott and Costello names are unnecessarily insane.

#Computers

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/