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Rasmus Rask

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

We're Google, and we're going to brick your perfectly functional thermostat after buying the company that made it.

Starting October 25, 2025, Google will no longer support the Nest Learning Thermostat (1st gen) introduced in 2011 and Nest Learning Thermostat (2nd gen) launched in 2012. Over the years, we’ve brought out newer thermostats with even more ways to help you save energy and stay comfy. As part of our ongoing efforts to provide the best possible smart home experience, we are transitioning our thermostat infrastructure to a new platform offering significant advancements in performance, reliability, and features that will greatly benefit our customers. Unfortunately, we’re not able to move our older thermostats to this platform.

July 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Kelsey Hightower

@kelseyhightower.com

An education, which isn't limited to the textbooks being sold to students, is how you learn what questions to ask, and what answers to challenge.

LLMs are biased data, not knowledge, generation machines and function closer to a search engine than a person who can reason.

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 17

If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.

Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.

March 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM