Christina Warren

Right! I’m (embarrassingly) not even a huge fan of Blood Meridian, but his stylistic choices are part of the whole experience and central to the art of the book!

I think that’s the thing that both the dogmatic boosters and dogmatic naysayers about AI miss: So much of human generated corpus (prose, code, art, music, theories) is utter garbage. Like it’s complete trash. So approaching “human” levels is neither as impressive nor as world-ending.

I try to not be dogmatic about this because in truth, there is SO much human slop out there (especially from the pre-LLM content farms) — like SO much — that isn’t artistic at all, but simply means to an end. And in that scenario, I will prefer robot generated text.

Cc @keithamus.social

(Also I decided to take this quiz under the guise of can you tell what is human vs AI. I got a perfect score. That isn't to say all human writing is better; I've read and edited some truly terrible human writing that I would gladly trade for the machine prose. But I know the tells of each.)

A screenshot of my results from the New York Times’ do you like human writing or AI writing better quiz

No fucking shit.

Yeah my best score was on my iPad Pro with brightness up but I might try again with my Apple Pencil to even more precise!

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Hi. Please play this amazing JND color game my friend Keith made and see how good you/your displays are at differentiating between similar colors. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-m...

I'm sure part of why it looks like almost all the review units were the 256GB version (and Apple usually seeds higher specced versions) is because Apple knows that the base model is the one everyone will buy.

I put this all out there not to dismiss the Neo AT ALL, but to point out that you can get a lot of laptop for $760 vs $700 for the upgraded Neo.

Even at $600 with the student discount, I think the move is either save the $100 and use that money on Apple Care or accessories or still pony up $160 for the refurb M4 Air from Apple.

Now the caveat is that I don't know how many of the refurb M4s there will be and the M5 Air refurbs will be priced at least $100 more since the laptop is $100 more MSRP. But today in March 2026, I would beg anyone looking at the $700 MacBook Neo to get the M4 Air.

At $700, I think you can do better from Apple, at least right now. The refurb M4 MacBook Air is only $760. For $60 you get 16GB of RAM, MagSafe, better screen/keyboard/trackpad/speakers, full Thunderbolt 4 ports, and much better performance. The 512 vs 256 storage doesn't matter in this category.

Now that the reviews are out (I don't have one but am considering a pink one as a pure thin client) I think the only MacBook Neo most people should get is the base config. At $600 ($500 for students), that seems fair and it makes the right trade-offs. 🧵

Hugs, love, and congrats on all you’ve accomplished!

Thanks Greg!

Truth!

tailscale has to be my favourite way of moving images from my phone to my laptop

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My playlist for people who like good music. With assists from @jww.wtf — it started out as a Radiohead sings about the end of the world playlist before it evolved hence why so much Thom

music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

open.spotify.com/playlist/3LD...

Tables and Chairs (Orchestral Version) with Nu Deco Ensemble YouTube video by Andrew Bird

Inspired by @filmgirl.bsky.social and current events, today I've been listening to songs about the end of the world. One of the sweetest and most hopeful is also perhaps my favorite in a surprisingly rich "false apocalypse" genre that David Bowie probably invented. You might need to hear this too.

The assorted Jeff Buckley covers are my favorite versions of that song tbh but it’s prob my favorite Smiths song

Holy shit we both have postal service cuts and the nirvana Bowie cover! Hell yes!

end of the world by Christina Warren on Apple Music Playlist · 37 Songs

Mine is music.apple.com/us/playlist/... with some assists from @jww.wtf — I’m proud of my final song choice tho “we’re all gonna die”

A LOT of Radiohead because it started out as a Radiohead EOTW playlist but evolved. Spotify or Apple Music?

really glad i made an “end of the world” playlist months ago for this very moment. and by glad i mean horrified. but at least i have good music.

It had a shot under Netflix to at least still make quality content. Not anymore.

With what money, exactly? You’re talking about the greatest television network in history with the strongest run of originals. People already won’t spend on quality. So this is over. It won’t be replaced by anything better. Art is dead.

It wasn’t but it was better. And all the Turner networks essentially did under Discovery. They weren’t going to be part of the Netflix sale and paramount will gut them immediately. Ted Turner built a fantastic empire and it now dies

Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros. Netflix said it it won't match Paramount's latest offer for WBD, walking away.

HBO is now effectively dead. This is truly terrible. I cannot think of a worse outcome. David Zaslav, may you rot. deadline.com/2026/02/netf...