Intro

Nothing like a peaceful Sunday morning at the end of an exhausting, historically-volatile week to pour a hot cup of coffee and spew absolutely scalding takes in all directions. If you get burned, don't say I didn't warn you. Read the message on the lid.

We've done 34 of these now and my mailbag is getting full of old e-mails that don't make sense anymore. Please email new stuff to me at podcast@searls.co and we, like civilization, will start fresh next time!

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

You can read more about things on other websites below:

• My "new" podcast, Merge Commits
• Announcing TLDR 1.0
• Late to the party on this: it's good that Siri is bubbling up to Craig, finally
• Aaron's puns, ranked
• Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine
• OpenAI releases 4o Image Generation
• ChatGPT Users Are Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
• How OpenAI's Ghibli Frenzy Took a Dark Turn Real Fast (Archive)
• An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
• Go to Truant Studio for all your branding and advertising needs
• Anthropic released their research into how LLMs "think"
• The 500 million worker problem
• India's domestic stock bubble
• Remember 15 years ago when we cared who would buy TikTok? Amazon might, still
• Eddie Burback's "No Phone" video
• College students are worse now, says professor, as always
• Ubisoft reportedly has lawyers ready to fight Assassin's Creed Shadows harassment
• Nintendo just carried out a major test of its reach in a post-Twitter world
• The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct
  • Virtual Game Cards
  • By "anti-scalping", they meant "for Japan"
  • Third-party developers say Switch 2's horsepower makes them 'extremely happy'
  • Switch backwards compatibility is emulation
  • Nintendo delays US preorders because tariffs
• Saturday Night film
• Titanic
• Still playing Avowed
• Not playing Inzoi
• How to change the oil on a Tesla
• Roguelike/Starfoxlike, Whisker Squadron: Survivor
• How SNL manages cue cards