Sam Biddle
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All of the global engineering prowess of the past 20+ years should have been redirected solely on improving music app visualizer technology, this is what Apple is still shipping in the year 2025
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
All of the global engineering prowess of the past 20+ years should have been redirected solely on improving music app visualizer technology, this is what Apple is still shipping in the year 2025
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
I’ve stumbled upon sometime on Uber Eats so conceptually depressing it’s having a destabilizing effect on my entire night
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I’ve stumbled upon sometime on Uber Eats so conceptually depressing it’s having a destabilizing effect on my entire night
Am always fascinated by what my cat finds engaging on TV since he ignores it 99% of the time. He’s locked the hell in
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Am always fascinated by what my cat finds engaging on TV since he ignores it 99% of the time. He’s locked the hell in
Very excited about my new book
October 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Very excited about my new book
The protective shades they hand out at the dentist really make me look like a January 6 defendant
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The protective shades they hand out at the dentist really make me look like a January 6 defendant
What a time to be alive
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What a time to be alive
I'll add the caveat that if I were 12, I would be extremely into all of this. And repeating a 90s Violent Games-style moral panic would be a giant mistake. But I think it's worth interrogating what it means for kids when this is the version of Sonic they grow up with.
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'll add the caveat that if I were 12, I would be extremely into all of this. And repeating a 90s Violent Games-style moral panic would be a giant mistake. But I think it's worth interrogating what it means for kids when this is the version of Sonic they grow up with.
Today’s excellent @maxread.info newsletter has me thinking of how much the X/Bluesky dynamic reminds me of my teen years, when message board hostilities would eventually drive a subset of users to create a splinter message board, resulting in deep poster-on-poster blood feuds across both forums.
September 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Today’s excellent @maxread.info newsletter has me thinking of how much the X/Bluesky dynamic reminds me of my teen years, when message board hostilities would eventually drive a subset of users to create a splinter message board, resulting in deep poster-on-poster blood feuds across both forums.
mfw I'm kicking the shit out of the establishment!
September 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
mfw I'm kicking the shit out of the establishment!
This is exactly how outlets should respond to corporate PR stonewalling (from this story: www.theverge.com/microsoft/76...)
August 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is exactly how outlets should respond to corporate PR stonewalling (from this story: www.theverge.com/microsoft/76...)
We were promised a global 5G revolution and the soda machine is still using LTE
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
We were promised a global 5G revolution and the soda machine is still using LTE
This gave me pause but I still enjoyed my Sprite
August 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This gave me pause but I still enjoyed my Sprite
The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine was on admin mode when I went to get my soda and I felt like the director of the NSA
August 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine was on admin mode when I went to get my soda and I felt like the director of the NSA
A lot can change in a decade!
August 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A lot can change in a decade!
Enemy (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve
August 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Enemy (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Never let Rotten Tomatoes stop you from enjoying something but 57% on this is CRIMINAL
August 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Never let Rotten Tomatoes stop you from enjoying something but 57% on this is CRIMINAL
Oh wait I misquoted. The original is better.
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Oh wait I misquoted. The original is better.
I've asked OpenAI repeatedly how it reconciles its rhetoric about the importance of democracy, democratic values, democratization, democratic rails etc w/ its close partnership w the UAE, an authoritarian monarchy. No answer. If you're an OpenAI employee, would love to discuss.
August 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I've asked OpenAI repeatedly how it reconciles its rhetoric about the importance of democracy, democratic values, democratization, democratic rails etc w/ its close partnership w the UAE, an authoritarian monarchy. No answer. If you're an OpenAI employee, would love to discuss.