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The Michaels take some time to talk about AI, Apple and Gaming this week, while Andy is out.

While we are not an all Michael podcast, we did see a few Mike posts on Mastodon from Mike Elgan. We start with one of our favorite topics Lego Bricks! Robots are able to create using BrickGPT, creating new builds from a prompt. Speaking of prompting we then look at what may be behind Perplexity’s offer to buy the Chrome browser from Google.

The day before we recorded, Apple re-enabled the blood oxygen sensor on newer models of Apple Watch, while we look back with nostalgia on VCR tapes. Well, at least using the VCR tape metaphor as a means for rediscovering videos in our ever growing Photo libraries. Michael R confesses to having been on the TestFlight for the new Cassette application.

We spend some time marveling at a newly created translucent Game Boy from Natalie the Nerd. We also take a deeper dive at a 1000 Wooden Pixel creation from Ben Holman.

We wrap up with a review about the Scott Pilgrim verses the World video game from a few years back, and decide we should re-watch the movie. Has it really been 15 years!

The all Michael show section:

From Mike Elgan’s Toots:

Direct links:

Apple news:

Cool Makers:

Gaming Nostalgia:

Published 11 August 2025

e524 with Andy and Michael M – stories about AI generated goodnight stories, Med-Gemini, GPT-5, skeuomorphism, scrobbling, seeing through doors and a whole lot more.

Andy and Michael M get things rolling while Michael R is away with some Google Gemini generated goodnight stories.  Andy generates a story about a 3D printer that prints a new red car in just a few moments.  Aside from a few inconsistencies, it’s actually a pretty good story and images.  After an example of Med-Gemini hallucinating a non-existent body part, the team virtually goes to Versailles to interact with the statues via AI.  Speaking with the statues reminded Michael of speaking with the plants at the Chelsea Flower Show discussed in e488.  Andy shares insights on GPT-5.

Then, the team turns to skeuomorphism with the Macrowave app as a prime example.  This leads to a small segue to scrobbling with Last.FM.  Andy and Michael wrap up this episode with the Eufy FamiLock S3 Max that allow you to “look through” your door and see who is on the other side.

What skeumorphistic elements are your most and least favorite?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

The Verge article: Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories

The Verge article: Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?

Google Research Blog Post: Advancing medical AI with Med-Gemini

Smithsonian Magazine article: You Can Now Have a Conversation With the Statues at Versailles Using Artificial Intelligence

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Games at Work e488 Fight. For Your Right.  To Pla-aaay!

404 Media article: More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on archive.org

CNet article: GPT-5: Here’s What’s New in ChatGPT’s Big Update

Where is your Ed At blog post: AI Is A Money Trap

#Macrowave, our native macOS & iOS app that makes it easy and fun to share system audio with friends to listen to music together will be available for everyone on August 7th.

https://apps.apple.com/app/macrowave/id6746954963?ct=mastodon

Macrowave – Private P2P Radio

Macrowave

Last.FM Scrobbling

The Verge article: This smart lock lets me see through my door

Eufy FamiLock S3 Max

NCSSM.edu article: ’87 alum set to open academic year with Convocation address

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 4 August 2025

e523 with Michael R and Andy, possibly arriving via carefully-arranged starlings? – stories about AI again, obviously; iPadOS 26; games, old and new; and, an innovative method of data transfer.

Andy and Michael R are back together this week, while Michael M takes a turn being away! We kick off with some AI-related topics, with ChatGPT successfully passing the anti-bot Turing test, CAPTCHA, and then some discussion of AI tools being allowed in Meta’s hiring process. Could the North Koreans be on their way?

Seamlessly gliding (almost like… liquid glass), there’s a discussion of iPadOS 26 public beta, and all the window-y goodness that’s coming to all in September.

Under the heading of games topics, the hosts cover a number of links, including the existential crisis experienced by games characters in a Matrix game, an incredible clay animated music video that revisits the 1980s and 1990s, and then, a brand new game all about the life of… a fly. Yes, a fly.

The last segment covers a different kind of flying creature, and looks at the potential for birds to become digital data carriers. Well, starlings anyway.

Are you switching to bird tech any time soon? Have your bots drop our bots a line on Mastodon at @gamesatwork_biz and let us know what you’re reading and what you’re thinking about!

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Published 28 July 2025

e522 with Michael M and Andy – stories about AI in multiple forms: bees that listen, a cat that chats, and then some fun with animating fish you draw, a GameBoy you build and a whole lot more.

Andy and Michael M get things rolling while Michael R is away with a story about Amazon acquiring Bee, the wearable AI company.  After a quick reference back to earlier wearable AI examples, the co-hosts turn to Lumo, the AI cat chatbot (catbot?) from Proton.  This sparks a rich conversation on search, and the need to find that receipt or email about the upcoming event.  A 404 media article covers Google’s AI Overview, and Michael shares how he routinely passes over the sponsored links, which is where the AI Overview currently resides.  Andy noted that Google announced Web Guide this week, and the pair give that a once over.  Andy also harkened back to his SearXNG aggregator and udm14.com. 

Next up, the co-hosts show that we can still have fun things, starting off with an(other) iteration of Doom.  This is followed up with Draw A Fish, a simple and fun experience where your drawn fish is animated by the site and placed in a fishtank for you to watch and feed.  Then, a delightful experience on Pointer Pointer, where the service gives you a picture with people pointing where you have your cursor.

Andy and Michael wrap things up with another LEGO video game exemplar – this time it’s the Nintendo Game Boy, which sadly doesn’t play a game, but looks very realistic down to the custom LEGO buttons.  And of course the pair is excited to see Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues when it comes out.  

Will Spinal Tap 2 go up to 12?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

The Verge article: Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say

Bee.computer

Games at Work e502: Humane Rabbits (for the Humane AI Pin, Rabbit Agent, R1 and more)

9 To 5 Mac article: Proton throws shade at Apple Intelligence privacy as it launches AI chatbot

Proton post: Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential

Vivaldi post: #10 Andy Yen (Proton) – For A Better Web

404 Media article: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

SearXNG

Tedium post: One Extra Click

Google’s The Keyword post: Web Guide: An experimental AI-organized search results page

udm14.com 

Draw a Fish

Pointer Pointer

The Verge article: Here is Lego’s official Nintendo Game Boy — with lenticular display

Entertainment Weekly article: Rob Reiner applauds Paul McCartney’s ‘really funny’ improv skills in first look at Spinal Tap sequel

IMDb: This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

IMDb: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 21 July 2025

e521 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories about expressive robots (Shoggoth Mini, Apple ELEGNT, SpiRob & facehugger), newly reengineered Commodore & Sinclair computer reboots, Seagate’s 30TB drives and a whole lot more.

Andy, Michael and Michael get things rolling with a story about what went into creating the hero image for last week’s show notes.  The team then turns to the Shoggoth Mini robot, and how it uses it’s antenna so expressively.  Inspired by Apple’s ELEGNT robot lamp, and SpiRobs’s tentacle system, Matthieu Le Cauchois started building the Shoggoth Mini.  Check out the links below for the videos and images to see how this robot interacts.  After touching on a robotic instance of a facehugger from the Aliens movies, the co hosts turn back to the future.

If you are nostalgic for a Commodore 64 computer, it is your lucky day.  Newly reengineered C-64s are available in several different models, and you won’t even need a cassette recorder or a floppy disk drive to load the software.  Unless you really want to.  After touching on a new version of the classic Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the co hosts marvel at the newly announced Seagate 30TB hard drives for $600.  

Rounding out the show for this week are an article on dropped customer service calls and some 1985 retro MacPaint art.

What kind of emotion would you want your robot to show, and how would the robot express the emotion?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

The Decoder post: Google’s Veo 3 video generation model launches on Gemini API with a hefty price tag

Matthieu Le Cauchois blog post: Shoggoth Mini

Apple Machine Learning blog post: ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot

Arxiv paper: SpiRobs: Logarithmic Spiral-shaped Robots for Versatile Grasping Across Scales

Games at Work e500: fünfhundert smooth operator (for discussion on the Apple Pixar robotic lamp)

Wikipedia entry: Horseshoe Crab

Robotshop community forum post: the Facehugger

Sixcolors post: Commodore, Apple, and the Early Computer Days

Commodore 

Mini-ITX post: We can build your Mini-ITX PC inside a Retro Commodore 64 Keyboard Chassis…

ESP32 Rainbow post: ESP32 Rainbow ZX Spectrum Reborn

TidBITS post: Seagate Ships 30 TB Hard Drives for $600

Seagate press release: Seagate Ships 30TB Drives to Meet Global Surge in Data Center AI Storage Demand

IMDb entry: The Cannonball Run (another big drive)

The Atlantic article: That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was On Purpose

Three sample MacPaint images from the decryption.net.au blog 

Internet Archive: Zen & the art of the Macintosh : discoveries on the path to computer enlightenment 

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 14 July 2025

e520 with Michael, Andy and Michael – stories about AI advertising, still photo animation, anime agents, Pollen Robotics, Unity tokamak fusion reactor digital twin and a whole lot more.

Michael, Andy and Michael get things off to a fast start with an article all about AI advertising.  And how including AI inside does not correlate with positive impressions.  The Google Veo3 capability to turn still image prompts into short videos is next in focus.  The hero image for this episode was made using Veo3.  On deck next are the open source Reachy robots from Pollen Robotics newly available on Hugging Face, along with associated demo code and AI models.  Then, on Kickstarter, the co hosts consider an AI 3D character pod.  The Dipal D1 on Kickstarter trumpets itself as the “world’s first curved 3D AI Character Pod”.  The intrepid Games at Work team digs up the Gatebox example from 2017 and the associated episodes shared in the links below.  This even includes a discussion from 2018 about “cross-dimensional” human-AI agent marriages, which foreshadows the game “Date Everything” from the Wired article. 

The next article is absolutely right in the wheelhouse for Games At Work:  South Korean scientists used Unity to create a digital twin of a toroidal fusion reactor.  And using the game engine’s physics engine, these scientists may have unlocked how to unleash fusion energy.

Rounding out this episode is the upcoming LEGO launch of a new Arcade Machine.  This fun kit has a number of cool easter eggs in it, and the team’s looking forward to building it.

What is your impression on “AI inside” advertising?  How do you think game engines may be used to further science (weird or otherwise)?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Futurism article: Something Hilarious Happens When Potential Customers See That a Product Has AI Features

Terrence Eden’s blog post: Gadget Review: Thermal Imaging Camera – Topdon TC004 Mini

Axios article: Google AI’s new trick: Turn any image into a brief video

Google’s Veo3 

TechCrunch article: Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

Hugging Face blog post: Reachy Mini – The Open-Source Robot for Today’s and Tomorrow’s AI Builders

Hugging Face Reachy Mini Spaces

Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini

Wall-E Eve (LEGO version, of course!)

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2

Wikipedia entry: Alien: Romulus (with face hugger poster – not as bad as spiders, but close!)

Kickstarter: Dipal D1 – World’s First Curved Screen 3D AI Character Pod

Games at Work e159: Virtually Secure (for initial Gatebox discussion)

Games at Work e218: Virtually Married (for “cross-dimensional” human-AI nuptials)

Popular Mechanics article:  A Video Game Engine Just Broke a Huge Barrier for Nuclear Fusion. This Could Be the Key to Unlimited Power.

Computer Physics Communication volume 309, April 2025: Development of novel collision detection algorithms for the estimation of fast ion losses in tokamak fusion device

Unity

Wired article: A Game Called Date Everything Literally Lets You Date Everything—Except People

Date Everything

I integrated my Pixels dice with Home Assistant!

If you have Home Assistant with Bluetooth support, you can install my HACS component too: https://github.com/jaxzin/gamewithpixels-ha

The Verge article: Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

The Verge article: Lego’s latest buildable arcade machine is packed full of fun hidden details

LEGO Arcade Machine 40805

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 30 June 2025

e519 with Michael, Andy and Michael – stories about AI conversations with pets and people, LLM data retention, AI slop, Clippy-esque prompts, AI workloads in space and a whole lot more.

Michael, Andy and Michael begin with an AI story about the possibility for translating what your pet has to say.  There have been similar stories, and certainly it is only a matter of time before there is a breakthrough to help humans talk to the animals. 

Next up, a video from John Oliver on AI slop for the masses, that interestingly enough starts off with cats.  The team then moves on to what LLMs know about those that use them.  A couple of articles from Schneier and Geeky Gadgets illustrate the challenges emerging with current data retention policies.  Andy asked ChatGPT to write his bio back in 2023, and the hallucinations from that experience is in the show notes below.

After a conversation on the future of Computer Science, the team considers AI workloads in space using the Syntilay example of designing shoes.  Then, a Mastodon post on the newest prompts from Microsoft Word reminds the cohosts of the fan favorite Clippy.  Next, there’s an AR example of advertising popup blockers where the cure may be worse than the disease of the number of ads and their content.

Wrapping things up for this episode, Andy, Michael and Michael take a look at the Microsoft Xbox branded Meta VR headset and The Confrontation LoTR tabletop game.  

What is your favorite AI slop example?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Boy Genius Report article: AI could finally help us talk to our cats

Games at Work e495: Personal Planetarium for translating animal communications

Mashable article: John Oliver finds a creative way to get revenge on AI spam

Schneier on Security post: What LLMs Know About Their Users

Geeky Gadgets article: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Data Retention Policy Explained : Is Your Data at Risk?

Games at Work e406: AI Lemmings (for multiple versions of Andy’s bio)

Andy’s fun with ChatGPT from 2023 – multiple versions of his bio

The Atlantic article: The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

Coolest Gadgets article: Reebok Co-Founder’s Startup to Design AI-Generated Shoe in Space

Syntilay AI designed shoes

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document

microsoft word: hold my beer

PC Gamer article: Software engineer creates a real-life ad block using Snapchat’s AR smart glasses, but ultimately ends up making something far more distracting than ads

The Verge article: A week in Xbox VR with Microsoft and Meta’s new $399 headset

Wargamer article: This special edition Lord of the Rings board game comes with its own damn table

Gamefound: The Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation Ultimate Edition

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 23 June 2025

e518 with Andy, Michael, and Michael – stories about Atari adjacent AI, a new Emotiv experience, Midjourney video magic, Bondi blue, visionOS persona improvements, the Nex Playground and a whole lot more.

Andy, Michael and Michael begin with a couple of Atari AI stories.  First up, there’s a Hackaday article dealing with randomly generating Atari games, replete with a link in the notes below to the Github repo to check out.  Next is a Futurism article detailing how ChatGPT loses to the computing might encompassed by an Atari 2600 console.  Continuing on the ChatGPT theme, the co-hosts check out a post on the recent ChatGPT worldwide outage, and what happened as a result.  

Then, the team turns to a discussion on the recent Emotiv kickstarter, the MW20 Neuro Earphones, and are reminded about the Emotiv Insight.  Rounding out the AI section, Michael, Andy and Michael enjoy Ian Hughes’ Midjourney experiment to create a short video of Roisin Kincade from his book Reconfigure. 

After considering a cute iMac G3 inspired Apple Watch charging stand, the team charges into a conversation about the recent updates to visionOS 26, paying special focus to the Persona function.  Michael Rowe has a nice before-and-after view of his Persona posted in his blog, and Michael M finds the AI generated Dutch master painting of Michael from back in e240.  Check out the links below to see for yourself!

A new to the cohosts gaming console called Nex Playground (not Next – that was a different company!) has a modular form factor, and makes use of a camera for the gameplay.  The Creative Bloq article references Homecourt as the origin for the Nex Playground — “the eye in the sky does not lie!” is a common refrain from sports analytics enthusiasts.  It is intriguing how sophisticated the AI motion detection has come in this consumer space.

What games can you imagine playing where your body is the controller?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Hackaday article: Randomly Generating Atari Games

Finite Atari Machine GitHub repo

Futurism article: ChatGPT “Absolutely Wrecked” at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

Robert Caruso’s LinkedIn Post: 🧠🤖 Atari 2600 Pulls Off the Upset!!

Wikipedia article: TRS-80 Color Computer

ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/ – text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=889fSJTRZlg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA – video

Pivot to AI post: ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide

Kickstarter post: Emotiv MW20 Neuro Earphones: Hi‑Fi Audio + Brain Insights

Emotiv

Games at Work e37: Sticky Games (for Emotiv reference – perhaps the first?)

IMDb: Minority Report

Loving midjourney new video generation. Ran the opening still from http://reconfigurebook.co.uk through it and Roisin really came to life. I last did this in 2023 with Runway. As I wrote https://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2023/07/25/reconfigure-the-movie-nearly/

Feeding Edge post: Reconfigure – The Movie, nearly

Midjourney post: Introducing Our V1 Video Model

The Verge article: Charge your Apple Watch on this tiny iMac G3 replica

Wikipedia article: iMac G3

iColorpaltte Bondi blue

Six Colors article: visionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple’s newest platform toward the future

Random Thoughts post: WWDC 2025 – Liquid Glass (for the AI Dutch master version of Michael Rowe in the initial visionOS)

Games at Work e240: Game of Life (for Michael R’s generated portrait)

Creative Bloq article: Nex Playground review: an Apple-like active games console for the family

Nex Playground

Homecourt.ai

Games at Work e327: Virtually Athletic

Nintendo Wii Sports

CNET article: I Downloaded Crazy Taxi on My iPhone for Free Before Sega Discontinues It

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 9 June 2025

e517 with Michael, Michael and Andy – stories about Atarino microcomputing, AI through movie and television metaphor, AR running, screens and zombies, Skyrim Grandma, and a whole lot more.

Michael, Michael and Andy start off with another teeny tiny computer after last week’s Pico Mac Nano.  This coin-sized “Atarino” computer is the size of a postage stamp! 

Next, the co-hosts take a look at a Wall Street Journal article on the current state of AI through movie and television metaphor.  Then, they consider an IGN article predicting AI prompting providing the capability of creating a game like Breath of the Wild with a small development team.

The Sightful Spacetop AR display prompts an interesting discussion about how cramped spaces like airline coach seats could actually be made productive.  A Runner’s World article continues the AR crossover, using examples such as Can You See Me Now and Zombies, Run! 

The team turns the crank to wrap up this episode with i-Zombie, Skyrim Grandma and the excitement of the new Playdate games.

What do you think the next micro computer might be?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Ars Technica article: Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer

Retrododo article: Polish Engineer Creates Atari Computer The Size Of A Coin

Wikipedia entry: Atari 8-bit computers

Wall Street Journal article: The AI Experience Is Going From ‘50 First Dates’ to ‘Cheers’

IMDb entry: 50 First Dates

IMDb entry: Cheers

Wikipedia entry: grok

Dextero article: AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers

IGN article: AI Prompts Will Soon Let a 10-Person Team Build a Game Like Breath of the Wild Where the AI Is Doing All the Dialogue and You Just Write Character Synopsis, Tim Sweeney Predicts

Games at Work e515: Seeing Through Walls for AI NPCs

PC World article: Sightful Spacetop review: Impressive AR display… until the bugs show up

Sightfult

Runner’s World (Apple News Link) article: Adventures in the Running Metaverse

Blast Theory post: Can You See Me Now?

Zombies, Run!

Novelty Automation

Tim Hunkin post: i-Zombie

Tim Hunkin post: Making i-Zombie

GameSpot post: Skyrim Grandma Ends Streaming Retirement To Play Oblivion Remastered

Playdate post: Season Two, OUT NOW.

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine

Published 2 June 2025

e516 with Michael and Michael – AI prompts, browsers, model collapse & automation along with a teeny tiny pico Mac nano, and a whole lot more.

While Andy is away, Michael and Michael start off with an article from Ars Technica that explains the system prompts for Anthropic’s Claude 4 models.  This leads into a discussion on prompt engineering, and how solutions like Ollama allow users to download LLMs and create their own prompts.  After a quick sidebar on AI browsers like Opera, the team takes a look at Sky, an AI automation app.  This app shows a great deal of promise as a desktop AI assistant, and will be very interesting to try out once it is generally available.  Then, the team turns to a story on AI model collapse.  And next up is a blog post about consenting to updated terms and conditions.

Round things off for this episode, Michael and Michael enjoy a teeny tiny Mac classic – the Pico Mac Nano – a new take on 3D monitors and a local North Carolina story about Pokemon card game competitions.

What would you want to run on a Pico Mac Nano?  Sky’s the limit!  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[email protected] (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Ars Technica article: Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4

Wikipedia article: Prompt Engineering

OLlama

Games at Work e429: Promptly Engineering

The Verge article: Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep

Opera AI Browser

MacStories article: From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac

Sky.app 

Phrase of the moment: "model collapse" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

The Register article: Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

"Technology should only ever do exactly what we have explicitly given it our consent to do"

This blog post 👉🏻 https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/ by @anildash is just superb! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

And the last sentence, a massively poignant call-to-action that won't leave people indifferent, specially, those who can't understand #ConsentMatters

#Respect #FairUse #SocialWeb #OwnTheWeb

Anil Dash blog post: The Internet of Consent

TechRadar article: Someone just built the world’s smallest working Mac – and at this price, I desperately want one

Pablo Picasso

Wired Article: 3D Is Back. This Time, You Can Ditch the Glasses

The Assembly article: More Than a Card Game

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine