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Jef Newsom

@jef

I follow Jesus, have two amazing adult children, love creativity in general and guitar in particular. Also, coffee. Occasional parodic.

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Andy Anderson makes me want to skate again. Mitch Brusco at SKATEiQ makes me think that I might be able to do it without killing myself in my mid-50s. This will be the death of me.

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One of my big disappointments with AI and robots is we got to pretty realistic voice synthesis before ubiquitously available robots, eliminating the phase where robots walk around saying things in a poorly synthesized, mechanical voice.

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Claude is acting like a hyper-productive junior programmer with ADD, eagerly making changes at my every request. They are all wrong and mostly half-baked, but boy is he excited to be programming and stuff.

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As I approach the middle of my 50s, I’m surprised by how often I have the thought “that’s a pretty nice box.”

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In the midst of exploring some ideas around coffee extraction-without ever mentioning 42 or the question-Grok spits out "StrategyVIII System: I have noticed that you have provided an answer to a question I did not ask about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. This

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I gave Claude and Grok the same prompt for a simple HTML prototype, and their first attempts were almost identical, including things that I did not specify nor would I choose (background color, button colors).

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Praying for a miracle for Charlie Kirk and for the God of All Comfort to demonstrate His Name to all of his loved ones in this tragic circumstance

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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe

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I do think it’s worth noting that Bill Gates’ pivot on climate change refocuses his efforts on vaccines. My guess is that vaccines are more profitable and his adventures in fake meat aren’t panning out.