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took the new iPhone 16 Pro on safari (not the browser)
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took the new iPhone 16 Pro on safari (not the browser)
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Marty Swant of Digiday has seen the Perplexity pitch deck for building an advertising business:
According to a copy of the pitch deck obtained by Digiday, the plan is to integrate ads within users’ queries and answers
When the idea of using an LLM as a search engine started floating around, this is where I expected we would end up. Not because I am some kind of expert, but if you can be sure on anything online, it’s that it eventually ends up with adverts.
Sure Perplexity may be the first one to make this move, but as Google replaces everything with Gemini — expect the same result. Further poisoning of results based on who pays the most money.
There are a few examples given in the pitch deck that feel like simple banner ads alongside results, but the below really hits home.
Another option is to have “branded explanatory text” that appears above sponsored and organic related questions.
When search results were a list of links with sponsored content, and some SEO slop, at least you felt part of the conversation. As much as the company pointed you to its favorite links, you could click a few and ‘test’ the results you were shown.
The whole concept of a search engine starts to break down when the only result from an LLM-based search engine is explainer text, provided by the brand that pays the most money. Please, could this AI bubble burst already before we break the web entirely.
Charlie Warzel writing about his toilet theory of the internet:
I have precious little time to hook a reader with whatever I’m trying to get them to read—but also that my imagined audience of undistracted, fully engaged readers is an idealized one.
It says a lot that someone as great at writing as Charlie makes statements like this. How on earth do people like myself, that suck at this, stand a chance?
The truth is, there’s not a lot we can do about it. There’s a tendency to point at others and say “they can’t concentrate anymore” when the epidemic is whining ourselves too.
I’ve had to work really hard to get my attention span back after years of letting it be stolen from me and I can’t be the only one. However, this gave me a new appreciation of where both my writing and my designs need to go.
When everyone out there is screaming for attention, it’s nearly impossible to be noticed, but there will be people out there paying attention. Keep on doing the things you enjoy.
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I think the camera control should’ve been lower on the right side, you sorta have to stretch just a little more than is comfortable for the gestures
I was surprised how high it is on the side, feels a little uncomfortable but no doubt it will become natural
🔗 iPhone 16 Pro Camera Review: Kenya — Travel Photographer - Austin Mann
I kind of miss the days of discovering radically new iPhone hardware every couple of years, but I suppose that had to change eventually.
I think pro photographers and filmmakers will really appreciate the upgrades in the last couple of years, but the general user might not notice a difference.
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it seems they’re going to demand Apple offer third-party peripheral makers and software developers the same access to system-level software that Apple’s own first-party peripherals and software have
Seems like a great idea to me
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Industry-wide, data centers demanded upward of 350 TWh of power in 2024, according to a Bloomberg analysis, up substantially from about 100 TWh in 2012.
3.5x power usage increase in 12 years 😲
Matt Birchler on the 99% of people lie:
People have a terrible habit of assuming “everyone” does something, when that’s simply not the case.
Everyone thinks that their perception of the world is correct. It’s only when you begin to realise that the way you look at things is nothing more than your perspective that it becomes infinitely more valuable.
The best thinkers can see things from other angles and come to open conclusions with the confidence to both defend their position and be open to new ideas.