Happy to get an Inkwell update out for macOS. From the news blog today:

Fixed several bugs in Inkwell for Mac. Grab the latest version with “Check for Updates” or directly from the help page.

Robin Sloan blogged about attending a Stop the AI Race march:

These things are growing and mutating faster than anybody can make sense of them. So … here’s a wild thought … let’s slow down, and make sense of them.

I really like Robin’s blog and his books. Great photos from the march too! I don’t think a pause can work, though, because coordinating with China labs and all open source seems nearly impossible. I’d rather see better plans for investing in renewable energy and some kind of UBI-like fund to help with the economy. No matter the speed of AI development, slow or fast, we’re going to need those things.

Something fascinating to me about how relatively little we use AI, compared to what it can do… I don’t spend much on OpenAI’s API, for example, but see this graph of daily costs. What if AI was much faster and much cheaper, what would be possible?

Doing a little inventory of my Mac’s login items in System Settings. There is a bunch of junk in there that can be turned off. I miss the much simpler classic Mac “Startup Items” folder with aliases.

JF Martin on his Numeric Citizen microblog:

…this new saga between Apple and OpenAI represents what I dislike about the tech world: it’s just noise that distracts me from more fundamental and interesting things. Apple is very fond of these legal battles, and I find it all tiresome.

I’ve certainly been frustrated with Lindsey Graham over the years, the Brett Kavanaugh hearing most recently. But credit to him for working in Ukraine literally on Friday… then the next day he’s dead. Stunning. 🇺🇸

Watched the rest of Star City season 1. I liked it a lot. Has a science fiction-y feel even though it’s in the past. Also finished For All Mankind season 5, though I sort of lost interest in the characters. 📺

It’s a good morning so far. Running db migrations and adding more plumbing to expand our books database with author pages and genres. Will roll out today, but some of the data will fill in more slowly.

I’ve been consistent in my dislike of non-competes. Vincent built his own blog hosting that competed with Micro.blog while I was paying him as a contractor! It’s fine. It makes the web better. As I told him, if I’m not paying a full-time salary, I don’t have the right to tell him what to work on.

The more I read of the Apple filing last night, the less sympathetic I was to Apple. Theft of “trade secrets” can mean almost anything, from the serious to the silly. Information is not the same thing as real property. Big companies use contracts and lawyers to protect themselves from competition.