Does anyone else have days where Ai is just terrible across the board, especially design? What is also strange is Claude and ChatGPT often underperform at the exact same time. I honestly think these companies are doing all sorts of wild west shenanigans behind the scenes. Asked for a website redesign:

For the last few days Opus 4.8 has one-shotted absolutely everything, Fable style. Today it’s incapable of the most simple task and building complete junk. Token cost, models, and the economics of these frontier Ai companies are a compete fiction.

Does anyone have knowledge of the photography experience of a Google Pixel 10 running Graphene OS? What do i lose, if anything? Portrait mode etc. #asknostr

It’s coming home. ⚽️

One interesting aspect of the Fable 5 marketing psyop - When the people are given access to powerful tools, 99% just start building cool shit that will benefit ourselves and humanity. I guess that’s why the 1% need to try and stop us. Good time to get out on the hill and enjoy the weekend in nature. I bet it will be back by Monday.

9.00am - Excited by new Ai model 9.10 - New model running on VM 9.25 - Thrilled with new performance. 9.31 - The future is here!! 9.45 - I’m gonna build everything 9.51 - Getting kind of used to this now. 9.54 - I wish it was more intelligent. 10.01am - MORE POWER. I NEED MORE POWERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

The UK is a peaceful and beautiful place. Do not fall victim to the propaganda of politics, news and corporate social media algorithms that will try to convince you otherwise. Their incentives likely do not align with yours or mine. We are seeing the outcome of this today in NI with masked men setting fire to the homes and property of families. Violent crime happens everyday in every country in the world. And for context, murder and serious violent crime per capita is way worse in the US than the UK, roughly 6-7 times worse. Broken money and dreadful energy policy has run the UK economy into the ground over the last 25 years. Everything else is downstream of this including levels of violent crime, morality, immigration, politics and dystopian authoritarianism. If you are scared or angry, focus attention on the solution and do not lose your mind over the symptoms. Fix the money, fix the world.

Here's a tip i often tell people and nearly always receive blank looks in return.... DON'T SPY ON YOUR KIDS. Don't track them, monitor them remotely etc - even if they know you're doing it. All you're gonna do is teach them that it's perfectly normal to be surveilled 24/7 and they will never enjoy the freedoms we all had when we were young. They will become less independent people and less equipped to deal with risk. One of the biggest challenges of parenting is managing your own fears and anxieties as your kids start to go out into the world without you. I want my kids to be adventurous and wonder, 'what's over the next hill'? Then have the skills to go and find out. And occasionally, what you find is beautiful.

Scenes from a fantasy, in the English Lake District. #landscapephotography