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A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
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The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home by Michelle Kim
Investors are pouring money feverishly into solving this challenge, spending over $6 billion on humanoid robots in 2025. And at-home data recording is becoming a booming gig economy around the world. Data companies like Scale AI and Encord are recruiting their own armies of data recorders, while DoorDash pays delivery drivers to film themselves doing chores. And in China, workers in dozens of state-owned robot training centers wear virtual-reality headsets and exoskeletons to teach humanoid robots how to open a microwave and wipe down the table.
Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent
Users who have dug into the code claim to have uncovered upcoming features, Anthropic’s instructions for the AI bot, and insight into its ”memory” architecture. Some things spotted by users include a Tamagotchi-like pet that “sits beside your input box and reacts to your coding,” according to a post on Reddit, along with a “KAIROS” feature that could enable an always-on background agent. Users also found a comment from one of Anthropic’s coders, who admits at one point that the “memoization here increases complexity by a lot, and im not sure it really improves performance.”
Not a good day for someone in the release team.
Business Insiders profile on OpenAI’s Simons
The difference, I expect, is that Facebook is free to let product quality (and experience quality) fall by the wayside because their social platforms have such powerful network effects. People stay on Facebook and Instagram even as the experiences worsen because everyone they know is also still on those apps. There’s no network effect like that for ChatGPT. Claude is already rising to near-equal status in popularity, and Gemini isn’t far behind, and Simo hasn’t even started enshittifying ChatGPT yet. People will just switch.
Why does it feel like they can’t run a product without enshittifying it? And Gruber is right, there is no stickiness with these chatbots.
For $200 more, you can get a MacBook Air by Joanna Stern
It was January 2008, and Steve Jobs had just pulled the MacBook Air out of a manila envelope onstage at Macworld.
Within minutes, Windows PC executives everywhere lost their minds. They grabbed the nearest office envelope, tried to shove in their plastic laptops, and tore straight through the paper. Engineers were summoned. Assistants were dispatched for larger envelopes.
A fun read. Through three transitions, the following event remains the same - race to become the MacBook Air.
More qualifying for free daycare
No daycare fee is charged if a family's combined income falls below a minimum income threshold. As of 1 August, that threshold will be 6,399 euros for a family of four, up from the current 5,956 euros.
This is for Vanta.
