Sometimes a business has to make difficult decisions to stay profitable. But I can’t accept that major layoffs are needed at companies that make literal billions of dollars in revenue. Often these companies are still hiring even as layoffs are announced. 📺

Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

Lots of travel this week. Hoping to fix some bugs and read a bunch. Packed a print book and my Kindle.

Watched: A Few Good Men. This movie is still so good. 🍿

Jason Snell blogs about Siri AI from the HomeView, which is better than what I assumed earlier. Is this going to be fast enough, though?

Apple does say that if you make a Siri AI query for your personal content, it will search everything on your iPhone or iPad—and that includes apps that aren’t the HomeView. So you should be able to query your iPhone apps, but not actually run them.

I added a new plug-in to Micro.blog’s plug-in directory that implements the about.md and contact.vcf parts of SocialSpec. It’s an experiment, we’ll see where it goes!

Caleb Hailey has announced socialspec.org, a suite of recommendations for making websites more social. Following lists, about pages, and contact info. “The future of social media is websites.”

Love the great feedback about Micro.blog’s new Blog Audit feature. Today I updated it with a couple more improvements: an option to download and copy archived images instead of just fixing the img tag, and a better way for us to stop bot hits from showing up in the missing paths section.

Looking forward to this documentary about Don Bluth. From Cartoon Brew:

Directed by Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker of Copper Pot Pictures, the feature chronicles Bluth’s extraordinary career, from his early years at Disney and his dramatic 1979 departure to the creation of an independent animation empire that, for a time, rivaled the studio he left behind.

The idea that AI might be conscious falls apart pretty quickly when you consider ChatGPT Images. It’s also built on the same underlying AI technology, but no one would consider image generation to be conscious.