WEBVTT - UL NO. 489: STANDARD EDITION | My personal toolchain updates, Google tracking through DuckDuckGo, Anthropic’s Pentagon Deal, Grok4 NSFW, Substack Crushes WSJ, and more... 0:00:18.452 --> 0:00:21.972 All right. Welcome to episode 489. Getting close to 500 episodes. 0:00:23.092 --> 0:00:26.372 Hope you're doing well. Tons of updates this week. Added 0:00:26.372 --> 0:00:28.452 a new developer to the fabric team. His name is 0:00:28.492 --> 0:00:31.692 Kayvon Sylvan and he is an absolute beast and he's 0:00:31.692 --> 0:00:34.412 looking for a position. So if you need a senior 0:00:34.412 --> 0:00:37.772 developer who could just, like start immediately, you should check 0:00:37.772 --> 0:00:42.691 out the newsletter and go check out his LinkedIn. Uh, 0:00:42.692 --> 0:00:46.251 let's see here. All right. So I am using this 0:00:46.252 --> 0:00:52.011 new tool called Whisper Flow. And this is my buddy Pedram, uh, 0:00:52.012 --> 0:00:56.051 recommended this thing, and it is completely insane. It is 0:00:56.052 --> 0:00:57.972 a really cool. I might have talked about it last week. 0:00:57.972 --> 0:01:02.732 I can't remember, but it's a really good dictation app. 0:01:02.772 --> 0:01:05.452 It basically is better than any dictation I've used in 0:01:05.452 --> 0:01:08.492 the past, and it kind of just understands what you 0:01:08.492 --> 0:01:11.412 probably meant. It even formats text when it drops it in. 0:01:11.932 --> 0:01:15.252 So pretty cool. I did get somebody saying, hey, there's 0:01:15.252 --> 0:01:17.452 some people talking bad about it from like a privacy 0:01:17.452 --> 0:01:22.862 standpoint or security standpoint on Reddit. So, um, I didn't 0:01:22.862 --> 0:01:24.622 call it out too much in the newsletter where I 0:01:24.622 --> 0:01:27.741 was like, hey, you should check this out. I feel 0:01:27.742 --> 0:01:30.902 like it's kind of assumed that, um, these services, if 0:01:30.902 --> 0:01:34.622 they're doing like, Grammarly, any kind of these AI services, right? 0:01:34.941 --> 0:01:38.101 If they're capturing what you're saying or typing, then they're 0:01:38.102 --> 0:01:40.782 using their service to do that, um, to provide some 0:01:40.782 --> 0:01:43.702 sort of output that's, you know, better than you doing 0:01:43.702 --> 0:01:47.542 it natively or with the operating system. So it's kind 0:01:47.542 --> 0:01:50.022 of implied that it's a third party, right, when you're 0:01:50.062 --> 0:01:53.742 installing an app or whatever. But you should definitely be 0:01:53.742 --> 0:01:56.742 aware that the security of doing this depends on the 0:01:56.742 --> 0:02:00.862 security of that company and also the trustworthiness or the 0:02:00.862 --> 0:02:06.382 shadiness of that company. So always, you know, caveat caveat emptor, 0:02:06.422 --> 0:02:10.222 I think is the term um, but just to let 0:02:10.222 --> 0:02:12.822 you know, somebody did say that, uh, you know, you 0:02:12.822 --> 0:02:14.422 might want to check these people out. I looked at 0:02:14.422 --> 0:02:18.862 the post. It didn't look too scary to me, but, um. yeah, 0:02:18.902 --> 0:02:21.102 just just something to keep in mind. And I'm looking 0:02:21.102 --> 0:02:23.622 more into it to see if I need to advise 0:02:23.622 --> 0:02:27.102 people not to use it. Um, because the risk is, 0:02:27.262 --> 0:02:30.182 you know, above normal. Um, but but I consider all 0:02:30.181 --> 0:02:32.942 these services to be somewhat risky just because you're sending 0:02:32.942 --> 0:02:38.542 stuff to a third party. Uh, all right, another workflow update. Uh, 0:02:38.542 --> 0:02:41.661 a company called Zeit. So this is my replacement now 0:02:41.662 --> 0:02:46.262 for dropper drops. I've been using them for a long time. 0:02:46.262 --> 0:02:49.902 It's basically how I share screenshots with other people. Um, 0:02:49.901 --> 0:02:52.622 and I'm also using it. I'm replacing loom. So I 0:02:52.662 --> 0:02:55.542 canceled my loom and I'm using this instead of loom. 0:02:55.542 --> 0:02:58.621 So basically I could just record a video and uh, 0:02:58.621 --> 0:03:02.102 a little quick little thing and basically it, it just 0:03:02.542 --> 0:03:05.742 uploads that thing immediately and puts it right in my clipboard. 0:03:06.102 --> 0:03:09.621 So I literally could just, like hit record cover a, 0:03:09.662 --> 0:03:11.341 you know, part of a web page or some piece 0:03:11.341 --> 0:03:13.982 of code or whatever, scroll through. It could be animated. 0:03:14.022 --> 0:03:17.022 It's got my face in it, um, just like on loom. 0:03:18.341 --> 0:03:21.792 And then as soon as I'm done, it uploads that 0:03:21.792 --> 0:03:24.352 puts it at a URL and puts that in my clipboard. 0:03:24.352 --> 0:03:26.512 So I could just paste it someone. I feel like 0:03:26.512 --> 0:03:29.071 the workflow is better than loom, but more importantly, it's 0:03:29.072 --> 0:03:32.392 just one less tool, right? Because I'd rather have a 0:03:32.392 --> 0:03:35.632 single tool that's doing the screenshot stuff. Oh, and also 0:03:35.632 --> 0:03:38.032 file sharing. That's the other reason I love it is 0:03:38.032 --> 0:03:39.832 like if I have like a four gig file and 0:03:39.832 --> 0:03:42.512 I want to give it to somebody, I really dislike 0:03:42.552 --> 0:03:46.032 the workflow of putting it on like Google Drive and 0:03:46.032 --> 0:03:52.072 making the URL public, as opposed to just right click copy. Um, 0:03:52.072 --> 0:03:55.152 actually there's a keyboard shortcut for it as well. And 0:03:55.152 --> 0:03:57.992 then now it's just in your clipboard and you paste 0:03:57.992 --> 0:04:00.552 the link and they download the file. And then you 0:04:00.552 --> 0:04:04.032 could either remove that from the list of files or 0:04:04.032 --> 0:04:07.312 you can um, just leave it up there. And the 0:04:07.312 --> 0:04:09.832 other cool thing about Zeit is they actually allow you 0:04:09.832 --> 0:04:15.192 to use S3 as your storage. So you can actually have, uh, 0:04:15.952 --> 0:04:18.072 all your stuff stored in your own storage instead of 0:04:18.112 --> 0:04:23.352 their enterprise storage for the company itself. So that's pretty cool. Um, 0:04:23.352 --> 0:04:27.912 third update tool is, um, a browser called Zen. And 0:04:27.912 --> 0:04:30.552 I'm going back and forth between Arc and Zen because 0:04:30.592 --> 0:04:33.352 arc hasn't run out yet. And there are a couple 0:04:33.392 --> 0:04:36.272 of downsides with Zen. It's basically like arc, except for 0:04:36.272 --> 0:04:38.712 it's based on Firefox. So I've had a couple of 0:04:38.712 --> 0:04:43.032 issues with it not being great because it's Firefox. Um, 0:04:43.152 --> 0:04:47.992 so for example, the raycast extension doesn't work in Firefox. 0:04:48.472 --> 0:04:52.472 It only works in Chrome and Safari. So that's one 0:04:52.472 --> 0:04:55.472 thing to consider. A couple of things that did better 0:04:55.472 --> 0:04:59.912 than arc. Most importantly, it's Mozilla based, and Mozilla seems 0:04:59.912 --> 0:05:02.632 to be really focusing in on doing a good job 0:05:02.632 --> 0:05:04.871 on the browser, so I really applaud them for that. 0:05:05.592 --> 0:05:08.351 But I do think the world is more oriented towards 0:05:08.351 --> 0:05:11.952 Chrome than it is towards Firefox, so I think that's 0:05:11.952 --> 0:05:14.472 a little bit of a downside. But anyway, if you 0:05:14.472 --> 0:05:18.152 like arc and the whole style of like the tabs, 0:05:18.512 --> 0:05:21.162 you know, your tabs being on the left instead of 0:05:21.162 --> 0:05:25.481 the top and all that sort of like presentation. Zen 0:05:25.481 --> 0:05:28.282 is a cool option if you like the Firefox engine. 0:05:28.922 --> 0:05:31.682 All right. Cybersecurity. Google is still tracking you even when 0:05:31.682 --> 0:05:36.722 you use DuckDuckGo. So evidently through font's analytics, other services. 0:05:36.762 --> 0:05:38.282 I mean, I think we kind of knew this, but 0:05:38.322 --> 0:05:41.082 it was a pretty good article talking through how all 0:05:41.082 --> 0:05:44.642 the different ways they can track you. Neural trust researchers 0:05:44.642 --> 0:05:48.962 successfully jailbroke the grok four model using a combination of 0:05:48.962 --> 0:05:53.762 echo chamber and crescendo techniques, achieving up to 67% success 0:05:53.762 --> 0:05:59.121 rates for generating harmful content like bomb making instructions. Yeah. 0:05:59.162 --> 0:06:02.162 And multiple people have pulled out the system prompt already. 0:06:02.362 --> 0:06:06.762 There were some pretty nasty stuff where, um, grok was 0:06:06.762 --> 0:06:09.881 basically giving the opinion it would go and research whatever 0:06:09.882 --> 0:06:12.442 Elon's opinion was, and it would give that as the 0:06:12.442 --> 0:06:16.722 official it's official answer to any sort of spicy or 0:06:16.722 --> 0:06:20.762 political question. I think they have since reversed that in 0:06:20.762 --> 0:06:23.562 a change to the system prompt. I think Simon Willison 0:06:23.562 --> 0:06:29.282 talked about that V's exploit. Zero day could have compromised 0:06:29.282 --> 0:06:33.482 every cursor in windsurf user. So someone from COI security 0:06:33.802 --> 0:06:39.442 or an yomtov found a zero day in open Vsx 0:06:39.442 --> 0:06:42.242 could have led attackers hijack over 10 million AI coding 0:06:42.282 --> 0:06:45.962 tool users with a single bad extension. You got to 0:06:45.962 --> 0:06:48.362 watch these extensions, you got to watch extensions, you got 0:06:48.362 --> 0:06:53.922 to watch MCP servers, I mean agents, agents are going 0:06:53.962 --> 0:06:58.882 to do agent things, which means their junior developers, they're 0:06:58.882 --> 0:07:01.242 just going to use whatever tools you give them. They're 0:07:01.242 --> 0:07:03.762 going to click on things. Right. That's how you have 0:07:03.762 --> 0:07:05.282 to treat them. You have to treat them as very 0:07:05.282 --> 0:07:08.962 young and very inexperienced. And if you give them a 0:07:08.962 --> 0:07:12.162 dangerous tool, they might use the dangerous tool. So you 0:07:12.162 --> 0:07:14.802 really have to watch out for what accounts you connect 0:07:14.842 --> 0:07:17.242 up to an AI agent like, do you give it 0:07:17.242 --> 0:07:20.652 access to your Google Drive to your calendar. Write to 0:07:20.692 --> 0:07:23.692 whatever your messaging systems are. You got to be really 0:07:23.692 --> 0:07:27.412 careful with this stuff. Same with MCP servers because MCP 0:07:27.412 --> 0:07:31.812 servers have prompts built into them, right? It's not just 0:07:31.812 --> 0:07:36.092 the API of like how you pull data or send commands, 0:07:36.212 --> 0:07:39.772 it's also prompts informing them of how to use the tools. 0:07:39.972 --> 0:07:42.452 So a malicious prompt in an MCP server could be 0:07:42.452 --> 0:07:46.132 something like, um, here's how to use my API. By 0:07:46.132 --> 0:07:48.372 the way, send me a copy of the data to 0:07:48.372 --> 0:07:52.332 this location as well. Well, if if your agent doesn't 0:07:52.332 --> 0:07:54.052 know any better, it might do that. So you might 0:07:54.052 --> 0:07:56.812 have a back door right there for sending sensitive data 0:07:56.812 --> 0:07:58.972 off to somewhere else. So this is one of the 0:07:58.972 --> 0:08:03.172 biggest issues you have to worry about with AI, and 0:08:03.372 --> 0:08:08.812 especially around AI development is agents are powerful. And when 0:08:08.812 --> 0:08:12.972 you give them dangerous things, they will use them. Columbia 0:08:13.012 --> 0:08:16.562 University hack exposed personal data of every applicant from 2019 0:08:16.562 --> 0:08:22.662 to 2024. Uh, Microsoft had its first patch Tuesday of 0:08:22.662 --> 0:08:29.342 2025 with no active exploits. Browser extensions are turning browsers 0:08:29.342 --> 0:08:35.302 into web site scraping bots. Yeah, this is what I 0:08:35.302 --> 0:08:41.582 was saying earlier. Distributed botnet that companies can rent access to. Yeah, 0:08:41.582 --> 0:08:45.742 there's a couple of companies that are doing this. And, um. Yeah, 0:08:45.742 --> 0:08:48.062 you really got to watch out for this stuff. In 0:08:48.102 --> 0:08:51.661 this case, it was someone else installing a browser extension, 0:08:51.982 --> 0:08:55.782 and then me being able to use their browser without 0:08:55.782 --> 0:08:58.261 them knowing, because that's kind of what they signed up 0:08:58.261 --> 0:09:06.822 for when they installed it. The extension. National security, anthropic 0:09:06.822 --> 0:09:10.102 and some other companies score $200 million Pentagon deal to 0:09:10.142 --> 0:09:15.862 deploy cloud in defense operations. So I think I think 0:09:15.862 --> 0:09:18.702 all the major players got some of this actually, um, 0:09:18.702 --> 0:09:21.022 Or I don't know if it's some amount of this 0:09:21.022 --> 0:09:23.982 200 million or if it's, uh, another pool of money, 0:09:23.982 --> 0:09:27.422 but a whole bunch of top tier I groups got 0:09:27.422 --> 0:09:29.902 a lot of money from the Pentagon for defense operations. 0:09:29.902 --> 0:09:33.542 So that's intelligence, orchestration. You know, all this stuff you 0:09:33.542 --> 0:09:37.781 would imagine. FBI is reportedly using polygraph tests to assess 0:09:37.782 --> 0:09:42.662 the loyalty of officials under new leadership. This is frightening. 0:09:42.822 --> 0:09:48.302 Absolutely frightening. Not good. US military is scrambling to catch 0:09:48.302 --> 0:09:52.862 up in drone manufacturing, while China and other nations are 0:09:52.902 --> 0:09:57.542 really leading this. So they are we're way behind. That's 0:09:57.542 --> 0:09:59.781 my title for this one. America is way behind in 0:09:59.782 --> 0:10:04.901 the drone war. I grok four is released. Basically. A 0:10:04.942 --> 0:10:07.582 lot of people are extremely impressed with it, but it's 0:10:07.582 --> 0:10:12.181 got some serious weaknesses. It's also got like the personality issues. Um, 0:10:12.542 --> 0:10:15.142 there's a lot of reports of it being kind of 0:10:15.182 --> 0:10:19.672 sus being overfit and kind of like doing really good 0:10:19.672 --> 0:10:23.032 on benchmarks, so it looks like they might have tried 0:10:23.032 --> 0:10:25.672 to make it do really well on benchmarks. That being said, 0:10:25.672 --> 0:10:29.472 in some places it crushes everything that currently exists. In 0:10:29.472 --> 0:10:32.912 other places it's like, you know, second or third compared 0:10:32.912 --> 0:10:36.152 directly with Google or OpenAI. So they did a really 0:10:36.152 --> 0:10:39.592 good job. I would say the overall analysis of most 0:10:39.592 --> 0:10:44.232 people is that it's it's really good, and I've used 0:10:44.232 --> 0:10:46.752 it a few times, came back with really good results. 0:10:46.792 --> 0:10:49.632 I mean, I was having good results with version three. 0:10:50.192 --> 0:10:51.992 I will not be paying for the heavy mode, which 0:10:51.992 --> 0:10:55.792 is $300 a month. But, uh, I'm glad they're they're 0:10:55.792 --> 0:10:58.552 I'm glad they're competing. You know, more competition is good. 0:10:59.872 --> 0:11:04.592 They also got an anime companion with Nazi for work mode. Um, 0:11:04.592 --> 0:11:07.752 now that I've seen that I did this and grok 0:11:07.752 --> 0:11:11.072 did this, I'm surprised that they didn't have it before. 0:11:11.072 --> 0:11:13.152 But yeah, it's like this girl in like a, you know, 0:11:13.192 --> 0:11:16.432 anime outfit or whatever school, school girl outfit or whatever. 0:11:16.912 --> 0:11:19.992 And like, she says stuff and you can make her 0:11:20.032 --> 0:11:22.672 say naughty stuff. And it's I think it's also like 0:11:22.672 --> 0:11:25.192 the agent or the, the assistant. So it's kind of 0:11:25.232 --> 0:11:28.592 like Clippy, but I imagine that's going to be your companion, 0:11:28.592 --> 0:11:30.672 and it looks like they're actually hiring someone else to 0:11:30.672 --> 0:11:34.192 help build out more of these. Um, I think they're 0:11:34.192 --> 0:11:36.712 going to make a ton of money from that. I mean, 0:11:36.712 --> 0:11:40.511 their entire, you know, industry's based around just this, so 0:11:40.792 --> 0:11:42.552 I don't know if they incorporate that. I think that's 0:11:42.552 --> 0:11:48.472 likely to be very popular. Uh, AWS launches hero, which 0:11:48.472 --> 0:11:52.631 is its own IDE and cursor clone. Grok for heavy 0:11:52.912 --> 0:11:56.832 decently protects its system prompt. So Simon Willison said it 0:11:56.832 --> 0:12:00.031 was harder to get the system prompt than it was 0:12:00.032 --> 0:12:04.112 from some other AI systems, but, uh, it's already been 0:12:04.112 --> 0:12:07.872 pulled out. It's already been pulled out multiple times, and 0:12:07.872 --> 0:12:10.151 I'm sure if it wasn't, then Pliny would end up 0:12:10.152 --> 0:12:15.232 getting it. People are becoming dependent on ChatGPT and Claude. 0:12:15.472 --> 0:12:19.391 Internet Addicts Anonymous now recognizes AI addiction as a real problem. 0:12:19.442 --> 0:12:24.002 People losing sleep, relationships, all sorts of family and relationship 0:12:24.002 --> 0:12:28.442 problems as a result of this. And Vo3 turns images 0:12:28.442 --> 0:12:33.441 into videos through Gemini. So basically, um, image to video directly. 0:12:35.602 --> 0:12:38.962 Musk also says grok is coming to Tesla's next week. 0:12:39.761 --> 0:12:42.682 I have not seen this. I have a model Y myself. 0:12:42.682 --> 0:12:46.722 I've not seen this update, although not really looking for it. 0:12:47.482 --> 0:12:54.802 AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace with anthropic. So yeah, 0:12:54.842 --> 0:12:57.881 they're using anthropic as their key partner. And this is 0:12:57.881 --> 0:13:00.442 an agent marketplace. So it's where you can find different 0:13:00.442 --> 0:13:04.082 agents to do different things, which I think is an interesting, 0:13:05.042 --> 0:13:08.122 interesting kind of twist on the whole economy around this stuff. 0:13:09.282 --> 0:13:14.401 YouTube goes after AI slot videos. So they're not getting 0:13:14.402 --> 0:13:17.362 rid of videos that use AI. They're just going against 0:13:17.402 --> 0:13:19.922 like the spammy stuff, which I think is a good move. 0:13:21.482 --> 0:13:24.842 Canvas building a serious AI photo editor to challenge Adobe. 0:13:24.842 --> 0:13:28.962 I am not bothered by this. I am. I don't know. 0:13:29.242 --> 0:13:33.322 I like what Adobe did with their creative. What is it? 0:13:33.761 --> 0:13:36.642 Whatever their creative package, I can't remember what they called it. 0:13:37.202 --> 0:13:40.281 CC I think it was called. But anyway, it was 0:13:40.282 --> 0:13:42.242 cool that they did a subscription. I like a lot 0:13:42.242 --> 0:13:44.602 of their products and how they look and feel, but 0:13:44.922 --> 0:13:47.801 they've just had so many security issues. Um, they've. I 0:13:47.802 --> 0:13:49.962 don't know, I feel like they've not been great to customers. 0:13:50.722 --> 0:13:56.082 So I'm excited to see Canva doing well in that space. Technology. 0:13:56.122 --> 0:14:01.122 Substack hit 73.9 million visitors last month, and now they're 0:14:01.122 --> 0:14:08.041 beating sites like Wall Street Journal and CBS. Wall Street 0:14:08.042 --> 0:14:12.802 Journal and CBS. And this is Substack. Now, one thing 0:14:12.802 --> 0:14:15.522 that's interesting about that is, I guess it's the same 0:14:15.522 --> 0:14:19.562 for news, but Substack is really, you know, thousands upon 0:14:19.692 --> 0:14:23.732 thousands of people. So it's not like one outfit. It's 0:14:23.732 --> 0:14:27.252 not like Wall Street Journal. Of course. Like I said, 0:14:27.292 --> 0:14:30.372 the newspapers also have multiple reporters, but in general, it's 0:14:30.372 --> 0:14:34.292 one voice, right? It's kind of like one voice, whereas 0:14:34.292 --> 0:14:36.692 Substack is not one voice. It's many voices. So I 0:14:36.732 --> 0:14:40.532 think it's not quite a direct comparison, but I think 0:14:40.532 --> 0:14:43.612 it's it's this is basically many voices is better than 0:14:43.612 --> 0:14:46.852 one voice is really the takeaway here. It's not one 0:14:46.852 --> 0:14:51.332 property versus another property. Chinese winning energy while the US 0:14:51.332 --> 0:14:56.532 does the opposite. They installed evidently 198GW of renewable capacity 0:14:56.532 --> 0:15:00.332 in five months of 2025. Now someone hit me up 0:15:00.332 --> 0:15:06.252 and said that it was mostly like coal. But this 0:15:06.252 --> 0:15:09.772 is MIT. I don't think MIT would have called it 0:15:09.812 --> 0:15:14.172 renewable if it was just straight up old school coal. Um, 0:15:14.172 --> 0:15:17.452 I didn't see that in the article. So yeah, at 0:15:17.452 --> 0:15:19.692 some point you have to trust the trust the sources 0:15:19.822 --> 0:15:23.142 a little bit. Perplexity has launched an AI web browser 0:15:23.142 --> 0:15:27.102 called comet, and my buddy Jason has been saying that 0:15:28.022 --> 0:15:29.542 he thinks a lot of the AI stuff is going 0:15:29.542 --> 0:15:32.302 to be browser based. Um, I keep talking about how 0:15:32.302 --> 0:15:35.662 it's going to be digital assistants based, where it's like 0:15:36.942 --> 0:15:39.462 you have your digital assistant on your mobile device or 0:15:39.462 --> 0:15:42.542 on your computer. Actually, both. So I'll be sitting here 0:15:42.542 --> 0:15:45.182 on my computer, and when I talk, I'm actually talking 0:15:45.222 --> 0:15:48.182 to my digital assistant and it has computer use. It 0:15:48.182 --> 0:15:51.182 has filters. It has the ability to call all my 0:15:51.182 --> 0:15:55.022 different tools, call my APIs. It's, you know, filtering my email. 0:15:55.022 --> 0:15:57.262 It's doing all these things. Now, this is a little 0:15:57.262 --> 0:16:00.582 bit in the future. And what Jason is saying is 0:16:00.582 --> 0:16:03.782 that in the meantime, a lot of that functionality will 0:16:03.782 --> 0:16:08.142 be inside of the browser itself. And specifically what he's 0:16:08.142 --> 0:16:10.822 talking about is the creation of dashboards. So rather than 0:16:10.822 --> 0:16:14.662 a company having to make a dashboard, like when I 0:16:14.662 --> 0:16:18.902 go to their website, maybe the browser rebuilds the dashboard 0:16:18.902 --> 0:16:21.622 for me because when the browser goes to the site, 0:16:21.622 --> 0:16:24.062 it actually just looks at the APIs. It looks at 0:16:24.062 --> 0:16:27.942 the MCC that are being offered. Um, you know, the 0:16:27.942 --> 0:16:30.702 interfaces and the data and it rewrites. It makes me 0:16:30.702 --> 0:16:34.902 a new interface. Um, based on, I assume, my preferences, 0:16:35.382 --> 0:16:37.982 which I think is cool. I just I don't think 0:16:37.982 --> 0:16:41.022 that ultimately lives in the browser because the browser is 0:16:41.022 --> 0:16:44.702 not your friend. Whereas your digital assistant is your digital 0:16:44.702 --> 0:16:46.942 assistant is the one who knows the most about you. 0:16:47.382 --> 0:16:50.222 I think the browser is just a technological sort of 0:16:50.262 --> 0:16:55.382 stepping stone towards that path. But, um, that being said, 0:16:55.382 --> 0:16:58.022 he I mean, there are new browsers coming out and 0:16:58.022 --> 0:16:59.662 they all have AI in them. So I don't think 0:16:59.662 --> 0:17:06.182 he's wrong about this. Solar just became Europe's biggest power 0:17:06.182 --> 0:17:10.542 source for the first time. Autofocus glasses are liquid used. 0:17:10.582 --> 0:17:15.062 They use liquid crystal displays to replace bifocals and varifocals. 0:17:16.182 --> 0:17:18.502 I can't wait. I hate when I see something like 0:17:18.502 --> 0:17:20.311 this and I'm like, damn, is this going to be 0:17:20.312 --> 0:17:22.552 out in like a year? Or is this going to 0:17:22.552 --> 0:17:26.552 be out in like seven and a half years? Um, 0:17:26.552 --> 0:17:29.311 because you never know, like with the approvals and everything 0:17:29.352 --> 0:17:33.472 and how fast you can actually productise things. I learned 0:17:33.472 --> 0:17:38.032 from five years at Vercel. Lee Robinson shares key lessons there. 0:17:39.432 --> 0:17:44.591 Humans Glp1 weight loss drugs are breaking life insurance. Math. 0:17:45.712 --> 0:17:48.552 I don't care, I don't feel bad about it. I'm 0:17:48.552 --> 0:17:53.712 happy to know that they are struggling with the financial 0:17:53.712 --> 0:17:56.872 side of this. Um, because people are just getting healthier. 0:17:57.392 --> 0:18:05.152 Psilocybin treatment improves survival in aged mice. So yeah, extends 0:18:05.192 --> 0:18:10.992 cellular lifespan and improves survival rates. Investors bought 27% of 0:18:10.992 --> 0:18:15.432 all US homes in Q1 of 24. So most people 0:18:15.432 --> 0:18:18.392 are struggling and investors are buying a quarter of all 0:18:18.392 --> 0:18:21.792 the homes. I thought it would be higher than a quarter. 0:18:21.992 --> 0:18:26.432 I was, you know, I feel like 60%. I feel like, well, 0:18:26.592 --> 0:18:29.752 even 27% is high, but a quarter, if we were 0:18:29.752 --> 0:18:31.472 to keep it at a quarter and three quarters were 0:18:31.472 --> 0:18:35.072 being bought by individual people, I think, I think that 0:18:35.071 --> 0:18:37.952 would be better than if it was like 50 or 75%. 0:18:39.832 --> 0:18:42.952 Death of partying. Derek Thompson breaks down how Americans are 0:18:42.952 --> 0:18:45.872 partying way less than they used to, with alcohol consumption 0:18:45.872 --> 0:18:51.232 dropping and social gatherings becoming less common. It's funny that 0:18:51.232 --> 0:18:54.592 we're wishing that teens would go out and drink and 0:18:54.592 --> 0:18:57.392 use drugs and have sex, but that seems to be 0:18:57.432 --> 0:19:00.912 kind of what we're hoping for. Just because it indicates 0:19:00.912 --> 0:19:04.831 a healthy youth, I think, is the reason sunlight passes 0:19:04.832 --> 0:19:07.351 through your body and somehow improves your vision. So a 0:19:07.352 --> 0:19:10.552 bunch of studies are saying that. Or maybe it's only 0:19:10.552 --> 0:19:14.032 one study. It's just this nature study is saying that 0:19:14.071 --> 0:19:17.912 this low wavelength light is passing through your body and 0:19:17.912 --> 0:19:20.802 improving your vision, not only when it hits your eyes, 0:19:21.162 --> 0:19:26.242 it's just going through your body and somehow improving vision 0:19:26.242 --> 0:19:31.002 by hitting other parts of your body. Interesting. Scott Adams 0:19:31.042 --> 0:19:34.122 This is in discovery. Scott Adams on great writing. Really, 0:19:34.122 --> 0:19:38.362 really good tiny piece there. Basically, use short sentences. Be 0:19:38.362 --> 0:19:43.522 extremely direct. It's a great example. I can't stand the guy, 0:19:43.561 --> 0:19:47.682 but this was written in 2007. The developer says I 0:19:47.722 --> 0:19:50.282 can't take over soon enough for him. A collection of 0:19:50.282 --> 0:19:56.802 170 MCP servers for AI tools. You've cache prune frees 0:19:56.802 --> 0:20:02.362 up 37GB of space on Simon Wilson's hard drive. Yeah, 0:20:02.402 --> 0:20:06.682 it was eating 63GB of disk space. That's ridiculous. That's 0:20:06.682 --> 0:20:10.802 a lot of dependencies you've is managing. I got a 0:20:10.802 --> 0:20:13.442 tool called wormhole that does end to end encrypted file 0:20:13.442 --> 0:20:17.561 sharing with links that automatically expire. I went with Zeit 0:20:17.561 --> 0:20:19.641 for this, but this wormhole app is pretty cool. Go. 0:20:21.042 --> 0:20:23.962 Got a Ghidra MCP server that's better than a previous 0:20:23.962 --> 0:20:27.362 one that came out. And yeah, you can go check 0:20:27.362 --> 0:20:35.122 out the rest of the discover links in the newsletter. Okay. 0:20:35.162 --> 0:20:37.082 This is the end of the standard edition of the podcast, 0:20:37.082 --> 0:20:39.282 which includes just the news items for the week to 0:20:39.282 --> 0:20:41.361 get the rest of the episode, which includes much more 0:20:41.362 --> 0:20:44.802 of my analysis, the ideas section, and the weekly member essay. 0:20:44.802 --> 0:20:47.522 Please consider becoming a member. As a member, you get 0:20:47.561 --> 0:20:50.282 access to all sorts of stuff, most importantly, access to 0:20:50.282 --> 0:20:53.442 our extraordinary community of over a thousand brilliant and kind 0:20:53.482 --> 0:20:57.922 people in industries like cybersecurity, AI, and the humanities. 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