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Ben Fry
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Founder of https://fathom.info, co-founder of https://processing.org, lecturer at https://mit.edu
Most worthwhile thing Apple's done in years.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wait, you're in New England? How often is this a thing?
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Like “yeah, let's first concede the point on reality,” ensuring that any subsequent discourse, which would already be deeply problematic (even in the best scenario!) will instead be optimized for maximum stupid.
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There are so many things competing for what's the absolute worst aspect of this letter, but for me it might be: if I'm OpenAI, I am *loving* this. Because it skips past the “AGI not remotely possible on the current trajectory” & validates the “it's just around the corner” talk driving the market.
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Delusional sounds like the happier track. Lemme hop back on that with you.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Nope… within just a few hours, the WaPo had replaced their front page photo of the destruction with an abstract diagram showing the shape of the proposed construction.

Framing from all sources is about issues of “transparency” or “critics” not “plainly illegal destruction of the people's house.”
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
(And ugh, that's Fridays, not Friday's. Now I've shamed the family in the eyes of his writer/editor mother.)
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
…and finally, Paul's “My Pet Fox“
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
…Mark's ominously titled “The Food”…
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
…Karlie's “what's outside my submarine”…
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What Ellory was able to throw together during the hour…
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM