2026-04-28 09:04:14
From the courtroom in the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial, Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge says that the judge denied a request to throw out jurors who didn’t like Elon:
“The reality is that people don’t like him,” she said. “Many people don’t like him. but that doesn’t mean that Americans nevertheless can’t have integrity for the judicial process.”
Turns out if you’re an asshole in public, it might eventually come back to bite you.
2026-04-28 06:55:16
Semafor reports that Tiny is looking for new owners for Letterboxd:
The Canadian holding company Tiny has spoken to potential buyers, from CNBC and MS NOW parent company Versant to the Hollywood startup The Ankler, about the platform…
I use the built-in movie blogging in Micro.blog and Epilogue, but we also integrate with Letterboxd posters and I know people like it. Hopefully the site ends up in good hands.
2026-04-28 06:10:10
Apple is adding the “monthly but 12-month commitment” pricing to the App Store. People generally hate how Adobe handles this. Apple’s UI is fairly clear, but I still expect user confusion.
I don’t even like showing the monthly estimated price for a year subscription. Better to avoid those gimmicks.
2026-04-28 04:53:05
This essay by Nilay Patel is getting a lot of attention. I’ve been saying for a while that there is going to be a serious rift in society over AI. That doesn’t mean that everyone hates it. Nearly a billion people use ChatGPT every week.
Mac fans used to dream of the future that Apple showed in the Knowledge Navigator concept video. Now we are very close to having it. Most of what was in that video is possible. And yet, some people no longer seem to want that future, in large part because they don’t trust AI companies.
Maybe our belief in new technology has been warped by cynicism. We’ve been beaten down by ad platforms, manipulated by algorithms. We’ve grown weary of the relentless pace of Silicon Valley. We assume every CEO must be a liar and that even good intentions are corrupted by money.
Or maybe… Maybe the potential for AI to positively impact the world is real. Of course there will be opportunists and scammers too. But we can narrow in on the good, weaving it into our software in a way that is helpful. Finding the right balance, so that AI is useful without feeling forced on users.
Earlier this year I blogged a strategy for how I want to use AI thoughtfully in Micro.blog. It has been a good guide for me, like user-centered guardrails. There is still so much we can build that fits within that strategy, hopefully avoiding the worst “put AI in everything” fixation from bigger companies that users are rejecting.
