Anthropic released its Claude 2 chatbot. I asked it to rewrite the US Constitution as a boy band song. It was fun.
We wanna form a more perfect union
Establish justice for all, from sea to shining sea
Make sure everyone can feel free
Provide for defense, for you and for me
Promote the welfare, general, you see
Secure the blessings of sweet, sweet liberty, yeah
For ourselves and our kids to eternity
Baby say you’ll agree and please ratify
This Constitution for you and I
VanMoof tried to best the Apple of e-bikes. They were pretty, had a nice minimalist design, and bucked the trend of building a bike on readily available components. They counted on their style and tech stack to stand out. But we’ve seen the e-bike market explode with innovative products across the price spectrum in the last two years. Now it’s reported they don’t have a CEO and are trying to get funding to stay afloat.
VanMoof’s approach has been highly verticalized to date: It has designed the bike itself as well as the integrated app that controls it. It also has eschewed using off-the-shelf components in the building of the bike — a very common aspect of how bikes are made and fixed generally — opting instead to work with suppliers to manufacture custom components.
This tweet from Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince is making the rounds on social.
Ooooo a chart that shows a big drop! I am intrigued.Twitter traffic tanking. https://t.co/KSIXqNsu40 pic.twitter.com/mLlbuXVR6r
— Matthew Prince 🌥 (@eastdakota) July 9, 2023
My problem with it is, the chart shows DNS ranking not traffic. It’s a dramatic drop, but given the modest scale of the y-axis, could be seen as a little misleading. Especially when Cloudflare offers actual traffic numbers. This is what they look like for Twitter over the last six months.
These show a slow decline with a precipitous drop-off in the last week. Which is not great for the company either. It just seemed weird for Prince to specifically reference traffic, but not link back to the figures from his own company that support his statement.I’m assuming Martin Pengelly went to a good school, studied hard, worked his way up through newsrooms to get to be the breaking news editor for The Guardian. Then he found himself writing this:
Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network
Twitter owner Elon Musk has suggested he and Mark Zuckerberg should have “a literal dick-measuring contest” in the latest broadside aimed at his rival billionaire.
In a message inspired by the Meta chief executive’s launch last week of Threads, a Twitter competitor, Musk added a ruler emoji.
Using a slang word for “cuckold”, popular in rightwing circles as a term of derision, he also wrote: “Zuck is a cuck.”
Threads is a legitimately interesting development. Any platform that grows to 100 million users in a week in a gigantic story. But now we get the pabulum always associated with Musk. Somehow this makes him challenging Zuck to a fight quaint in comparison.
Testing out micro.blog. I evidently signed up for it a while ago but never posted anything. Now I have posted something.