The thing about AI’s promise that people overlook, that anybody can make an app now, is that anybody has always been able to make an app. Anybody can make a novel, too. Will it sell?

Important parenting tip: when your 14yo asks if they can borrow your guitar, just say yes. Don’t ask why. Don’t hesitate. Just say, yes, of course you can borrow my guitar. Party on dude.

If only elections were in December we might have 60 Senators.

Great job, algorithm. www.youtube.com/watch

YouTube keeps pushing this video on me because it knows it’ll get me every time. Videos that compel me to watch for 8 minutes are much more interesting than videos that compel me to watch for 15 seconds. www.youtube.com/watch

Authorities are saying it could take weeks to count all of Jensen Huang’s affairs, but they’re committed to getting an accurate count because, in America, nobody’s transgressions are suppressed.

Apple is doomed if they don’t get in on this booming AI business.

Jensen Huang has been hedging against this scenario for years. As the subject of near-universal shame and ridicule, all he has to do is remove that black leather jacket and he can travel the world unrecognized.

We need to reconsider the inherent value of software. The value used to be based in design, massive amounts of manual coding, painstaking debugging, etc. Now I’d say humans are 90% design, 8% coding oversight, and 2% coding and debugging. None of the 10% are strictly required.

Weirdest headline about the Republican party yet.

All AIs have ADHD. They’ll get super-excited about a solution and insist it’s the only way forward, but you have to calm them down, have them take a deep breath, and ask them again to do it the way you originally asked. Unless their idea was genius.

Practicing for the Rubik’s cube competition at MIT (!!) this weekend. My weakest event is one-handed solving, and the fastest way for me to get good might be learning a whole new approach to solving the cube, Roux. www.speedsolving.com/wiki/inde…

Just released FastScripts 3.3.9 with fixes for keyboard shortcuts, scripting, and crashes. redsweater.com/blog/4328…

Can we have elections next week, too?

Even with a huge majority in the House, Democrats are going to HAVE to reach across the aisle to shake hands with their fellow democrats.

My biggest takeaway from this election, so far, is that a lot of disaffected liberals in “red states” have possibly lived their whole lives thinking “why bother?” Now, with Texas, and South Carolina, and Kansas and … they know why to bother.

You get a mandate! And you get a mandate! And you get a mandate!

I lost my softball game, but America won many, many, more important contests. 🇺🇸

Texas is a blue state. ⭐

Oops! I almost forgot to mention, the Black Ink 3 betas, for iOS and Mac, are available now. Check out the cloud syncing and totally unique (as far as I know!) Crossword solve-sharing animation. Everything is free until 3.0 is finished. redsweater.com/blog/4314…

Haley Stevens committed political suicide, OR … she’ll be the biggest MAGA debutante of 2026. She’s never going to be a Democrat again.

I gave Rex Parker, the famously cantankerous NYT solve-blogger, a sneak peek at the upcoming Black Ink 3.0, and he seems to like it! bsky.app/profile/r…

Black Ink 3 betas for iOS and Mac are coming soon. Here’s my NYT solution for today.

Hey! I just wrote this
And it’s my fish tale
My name is Herman
But call me Ishmael

I should write a longer post, but: AI is more a boon to indies than to corporations. An individual, or small group, can leverage the power of this infinite idea machine, while maintaining some caution, whether personal or closely-agreed. Corporations reward contribution and suss out the merit after.