Wonderful to see this from James Cameron:

…you’ve got generative AI, where they can make up a character. They can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt. It’s like, no. That’s horrifying to me

He’s a futurist who has always embraced cutting edge technology in his films but only in service of the story, pushing the limits of his creativity and the creativity of those he works with. Generative AI will never do that; because it is not creative. Computers can not produce art.

I used to consciously unsubscribe from things but it’s just too much, now if I get something I didn’t sign up for it goes straight to spam. I’ll still try to unsubscribe from non-profits and stuff I care about; but a random Shopify store… straight to spam.

Whether or not they can ever make this thing safe for children… just don’t buy AI toys. Kids are happy to play with a cardboard box and some paints for hours and hours they don’t need AI.

Marketing in dev docs is super annoying. I was just combing through the docs for a gem, and 50% of each page was “oh it does this” and “wouldn’t it be great if you could do this? now your can!” I like a bit of that on the “Getting Started” page so I clearly know what the library is promising but after that just tell me how to use it!

The Guardian is running an op-ed: “Trump shrugged off Khashoggi’s killing. This is a new low”; but is it really? I’m so tired of all the “firsts” with Trump, does anyone have the capacity to still be shocked or surprised at anything this man does?

My daughter is going to a birthday party today, somehow this means making and writing the card falls on me.

First snow

Last night I watched: White Noise 🍿 I didn’t see a trailer, I didn’t read the book. It’s so much more fun to go in blind. I had no idea what it was or where it was going. Thoroughly enjoyed this film.

I’ve been switching between Ghostty and iTerm a lot, mostly to take advantage of iTerm’s scroll back search but today it seemed appropriate to use Ghostty!

I never posted an update… both chrysalises hatched and began their journey mid-September. One we saw fly via our camer set up and the other we were lucky enough to see in person!