Manton Reece

Bummed to hear that Brightline is filing for bankruptcy: For months, the company has been grappling with an unsustainable $5.5 billion debt load even while the passenger operations have become profitable.

After a reminder from @danielpunkass, I’m playing with Automattic’s Spacefast again.

On the eve of OpenAI’s DevDay, an exclusive from the WSJ that GPT-6.1 Astra is delayed because of safety concerns: Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, said in an interview that GPT-6.1 Astra regressed in two areas.

Michael Tsai blogging about Grok Bot and agents generally: I don’t trust xAI (or Meta) with my data, but it doesn’t seem like Siri AI can do all that much.

In the latest Connected Places fediverse news, this improvement in Mastodon 4.7 stood out to me: Mastodon 4.7.0 can now recognise a remote account that changes its handle by using its underlying ActivityPub identifier.

If the future is more agents and fewer traditional apps, it’s a threat to the App Store business, so Apple will resist it.

Ben Thompson writing about how the future will be on-demand UIs and agents that bypass needing an app at all: …no one wants to use apps because they are apps, apps were just the vehicle for people to accomplish something or entertain themselves; once peop…

The iPad update to Epilogue that I blogged about this weekend is now available.

Lex Friedman has a blog post about how broken the App Store review process is.

John Gruber followed up about Alexandr Wang’s Muse post on X: Wang wrote that Muse “Clears the way and solves all the problems it can until the human part, the wanting and the dreaming, is all that’s left.”

Crazy last few minutes of Ravens / Cowboys. 1 second!

Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with Trump tonight, according to Axios: Months ago, when Anthropic first started talking about having a one-on-one with Trump, some advised against it because “Dario’s a little too weird” for Trump, one senior offic…

Mark Gurman compares the Apple Vision Pro to the Meta VR Glasses, and adds some notes about new development: Apple’s Vision team is now working on a completely revamped headset under the code name N224.

Worked on Epilogue this weekend, adding a new layout for the iPad.

Weekend Update on SNL: Dario Amodei.

Got my print copy of The Fires of December.

Alexandr Wang, who went to Meta when Meta acquired 49% of his company Scale AI, posted on X about why he’s building Muse.

Updated my Texas state parks page with this week’s visit.

Now people are saying that the OpenAI agent is called simply lowercase “o”?

Rumor is OpenAI is launching a new agent called Aeon next week.

Rail and oil in Three Rivers, Texas.

Another update on the new theme editor: I added a “…” context menu with a “Show Locations” item.

I filled out the Siri AI class action settlement to get my $25 to $95.

Choke Canyon State Park.

We’ve got the track list for U2’s next album, coming out in November, including this surprise: The song connecting the album and two EPs is the final track on the new album, ‘Torn’, a duet between Bono and the late, great Dolly Parton, in what has sadly t…

Screenshot of the redesigned theme editor for Micro.blog going live now.

Bad wi-fi today, so I’m tethering, but bad cell signal too… So much of my work depends on the web, even simple coding and testing slows to a crawl.

There’s a bug fix update to the OutPost beta for Mac.

A couple more thoughts on Meta Connect: Mark Zuckerberg seems pretty happy with the company’s position right now.

Mark Zuckerberg has a short thread on, uhm, Threads that highlights the announcements from Meta Connect today.

John Gruber linked to this iPhone 4 Antennagate Q&A and it really is extraordinary.

Another trailer for Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything.

First trailer for Ray Gunn is out.

Still settling in to what AI models I should be using.

Politico quoting Trump’s remarks at the UN: From this point forward, all United States documents and hopefully the world’s will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super, as opposed to artificial.

Lots of AI news today.

OutPost is a new Micropub client for Mac, with full compatibility with Micro.blog-hosted blogs.

Following up on my home server minor dilemma… The problem is best illustrated with this summary: Mac mini with 4 TB: $3499 Beelink mini PC + 4 TB internal M.2: $865 That is quite the price difference.

Thinking more about what I need for home NAS or OpenClaw server.

Flipping through news channels over breakfast like I usually do, the Today Show actually had a pretty good segment on AI technology to help with air traffic control.

AI tends to over-engineer more than I would.

Reviewing the latest draft of the LOLA portability spec for ActivityPub.

OpenAI blogs about a new advisory group for math and AI.

Caleb Hailey responded to my comment about a MacBook Neo-class Mac: When the redesigned Mac Mini was announced I had hoped for it to be USB-C powered.

Yesterday when I was clicking around checking the social web — Micro.blog, Bluesky, Threads, and X — it was only on Threads that I saw the news about ICE in Austin.

From Jason Snell’s review of the new Mac mini: … at $599, the Mac mini was about as close to an impulse buy as a Mac desktop could get.

The release notes page for Micro.blog for Mac is now so long, going back 9 years, that I hit Discourse’s default 32k character limit today.

“Your feedback is important to us…” [delete]

Federico Viticci has an exhaustive review of the new Mac Studio with M5 and 256 GB of RAM.

A man is in the hospital after being shot by ICE in Austin today.