When do the Trump flags come down? (members post)

From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic EraToday we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality —

Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow KnifeFor a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly

Casey Newton on Platformer: The Phony Comforts of AI SkepticismThe most persuasive way you can demonstrate the reality of AI, though, is to describe how it is already being used today. Not in speculative sci-fi scenarios, but in everyday offices and laboratories and schoolrooms. And not in the ways

Another week, another fantastically fun episode of Comfort Zone! This week Niléane talked about her new Flight Simulator obsession, we go on a tangent about PC gaming, Chris (who says he’s an iPad guy) brings another Mac to talk about, and I had the gang look

It turns out video games really can impact how you view the world.