Notices by Merlin Mann (hotdogsladies@mastodon.social)

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/

I can't believe this is almost twenty years old.

It's still really funny.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-would-be-really-annoying-to-give-out-over-the-phone

I get the feeling most people who come up with product names and URLs have never had to say them seven or eight times in a podcast ad.

It might be an instructive exercise for them.

Do By Friday and the After Show are really good this week.

"That Baby Needs Gloves"

https://overcast.fm/+s1fArlqA8

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM

@powersoffour Thank you!

Something I said to Alex on this week's DBF.

I know this sounds weird, but I don’t think huge televised campaign events are designed for the people who watch huge televised campaign events.

I think they're actually for the people who do not watch huge televised campaign events.

Perhaps some people who don't know what you already know or think what you already think.

Clips and coverage of this silliness might just make someone realize they have a potentially appealing option over here.

My point is, I am expected to know WAY too much about yoga to do puzzles and it’s starting to make me irrationally angry.

God damn it.

This is getting out of hand.

Roderick on the Line, Ep. 546: "A Sugar Season"

The Problem: John doesn't usually have sympathetic issues.

http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-546-a-sugar-season.html

I’m pretty sure this is the mayor of the bird feeder.

I’ll get into eugenics when rich guys start looking less like exotic cheeses.

All couples fight.

Whom amongst us hasn’t staged the death of a bear for a laugh?

It was a different time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bear-central-park.html

What a stochastic summer we’re having.

It’s gonna be wild to see how the dynamic over the next 3 months reflects the way deeply shitty people treat two very accomplished professional women who happen to have a parent born in India.

Especially when one of them is their own vice-presidential candidate’s wife.

Power resides in the ability to define and enforce what counts as normal is a thing I think to myself pretty often.

https://www.readtpa.com/p/weird-times-in-american-politics