The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Links:

• Allen’s blog.
• Allen’s take on Apple Intelligence, so far: “It’s Good for Apple, and Okay for You”. (Includes the Image-Playground–generated derpy-looking images of Allen that we discuss on the show.)
• Forestwalk Labs — Allen’s new startup.
• Allen’s podcasts:
  • Fun Facts with Arik Devens, now complete.
  • It Shipped That Way.
• CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss how Apple Intelligence message suggestions feel “anti-human” on Cortex ep. 161.
• Cursor — “The AI Code Editor”.
• Rich Sutton’s 2019 essay “The Bitter Lesson” (“The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.”)
• AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire”, which ran four seasons from 2014–2017.
• Ellen Cushing for The Atlantic: “Thanksgiving Should Be in October”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Joanna on YouTube: “I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots”.
• Joanna’s excellent interview with Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence, which is also on YouTube.
  • My commentary linking to it.
• Ann-Marie Alcántara’s Wall Street Journal piece: “When Did Apple’s Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains?” (also on News+)
• Larry David on Siri.
• Voight-Kampff Test.
• There’s a social media thing where people are posting ChatGPT’s illustrations from the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.”
  • Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.
  • Here’s Joanna’s: Boy Scouts, basketball, cameras, computers, and lots of bagels.
  • Here’s an alternate from Joanna.
• The Gruber and Coudal families, leaving Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Previously on The Talk Show, with Merlin:
  • Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one)
  • Holiday Party 2020 (the good one)
• Yours truly, on this week: “How It Went”.
• Seki Edge nail clippers:
  • Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.
  • The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, where Merlin first recommended these to me.
  • Get them at Amazon for $16. Buy two pairs.
• Kai scissors. Get a few pairs of these too.
• Merlin’s Wisdom Project. Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good.
• Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”.
• Merlin’s Happy Place — a YouTube playlist, comprised of “Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Yours Truly: “In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement”.
• “Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM”.
  • David Schaub’s chart of base RAM in Mac desktops since 1984.
  • His corresponding chart of base RAM in Mac laptops since 1999.
• Dan, in a column for Macworld: “The Truth Behind Apple’s Most Unpopular Decisions: It’s Not About You”.
• M4 iMac:
  • Daring Fireball: “Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals”.
  • MacRumors: “M1 vs. M3 vs. M4 iMac Buyer's Guide”.
• M4 Mac Mini, now even mini-er:
  • Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.
  • Dan Moren: “The M4 Mac Mini: Tricks and Treats”.
• M4 MacBook Pros:
  • Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils New M4 MacBook Pro Lineup, Including, Hallelujah, a Nano-Texture Display Option”.
• All Souls Lost — Dan’s latest novel, a modern noir mystery.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Tyler Stalman on YouTube:
  • iPhone 16: A Photographer's Review.
  • What's on his iPhone 16.
• Tyler’s recommended Photographic Styles recipe:
  • Undertone: Amber
  • Tone: -50 to -60
  • Color: 20
  • Palette: 100
• JPEG XL.
• Steven Soderbergh has shot two feature films on iPhones:
  • Unsane -- shot on iPhone 7 in 2018.
  • High Flying Bird -- shot on iPhone 8 in 2019.
• Robert Rodriguez:
  • El Mariachi — his debut feature film, shot for just $7,000 in 1992.
  • Desperado — his big-budget 1995 sequel, starring Antonio Banderas and Selma Hayek.
  • Rebel Without a Crew — Rodriguez’s book on the making of El Mariachi.
• Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.