A four day work week – need more of those. As ever there’s lots on at work and already looking ahead to 2027. Also using Claude and agents more and it’s delivering promising results. Also promising, no snow this week at least in Glasgow.
Also a week where I focussed on finances and got a pile of small but building tasks out the way. After a chat with Shak on Friday also spun through my digital, entertainment and utility subscriptions across the year. Feck me. Quite the total and I still keep finding more I’ve forgotten. I need an intervention.
🔗 Links
- Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? – Long, detailed investigation with lots of input from around the tech world including Altman himself. The animation at the start of the article says it all.
- Sam Altman Blog – A few days after the article Altman’s house was attacked and he posted on the impact the article and fallout has had.
- Project Glasswing – This feels one of the more important AI press releases in the last 12 month but at the moment, thats all it is, a press release and PR from Anthropic. However the idea that they are finding bugs that nobody else has and also how AI is behaving is super interesting and pretty scary.
- Is Hormuz Open Yet? – Certainly vibe coded but a really useful site especially as it’s now America and not Iran that is going to block the Hormuz.
- Artemis II successfully completed its mission. Loved images from the Lunar Flyby and also these iPhone Wallpapers. Images look spectacular on OLED screens.
- A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Making This Astonishing Scale Model of Every Single Building in New York City – What an amazing thing to do for 20 years. Would love to see this in person.
- Thom Yorke | Live at Sydney Opera House – I love Radiohead and Thom Yorke and this is a great 90 minute video from a live event he did in November 2024. Someone has done the hard work and turned this into wav and mp3 files.
- Productive procrastination – this sang to me when I stumbled on it this week. Much to unpack.
- Train Jazz – what a clever and unique web app. Be great to see for other cities like London – Glasgow’s would be a bit quiet 🙂