On the Empire Builder. Starting to turn east, with the moon in the sky. đźš‚
\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/10/16/on-the-empire-builder-starting.html","date_published":"2026-10-17T01:46:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"01:46","date_timestamp":1792201593,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxzxvxxp3i2x","https://www.threads.com/@manton/post/Dek9w2PFhSm"]}},{"id":"99366341","content_html":"@thestudyofstarlight Nice, I’m pretty happy with my 16 Pro Max. Very curious what people will actually think of the foldable.
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\n\n\n…pre-orders always start before reviews appear. People are left to guess whether they’re going to like it without any word from people who’ve used it.
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At least Apple is generous with returns. $2k is a lot to put down on faith, though.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/10/15/automattic-has-a-clever-and.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 00:00","date_timestamp":1792108800,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxxbhfniui25","https://www.threads.com/@manton/post/DeiMlbykQSm"]}},{"id":"99303490","content_html":"Interesting to see Meta working directly with Apple to run Muse Spark Open on Macs efficiently. John Voorhees has a good summary at MacStories. But the cost is still pretty insane… Spending well over $10k to get “only” an 800-billion parameter model when the frontier is still a ways ahead of that.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/10/15/interesting-to-see-meta-working.html","date_published":"2026-10-15T23:14:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-15 23:14","date_timestamp":1792106042,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxx6wrfp5s2x","https://www.threads.com/@manton/post/DeiHbH4n-5m"]}},{"id":"99238913","content_html":"Reading more details in the story of an OpenAI engineer getting arrested after bugging a conference room:
\n\n\nAbdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications. He made his initial appearance in federal court Tuesday and remains in custody.
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He seems to have had a fairly normal career, so what caused this flip to espionage? Strange. Not the obvious “he was a Chinese spy” that people might guess.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/manton/99237690","date_published":"2026-10-14T21:20:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 21:20","date_timestamp":1792012848,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99237393","content_html":"Sometimes a business has to make difficult decisions to stay profitable. But I can’t accept that major layoffs are needed at companies that make literal billions of dollars in revenue. Often these companies are still hiring even as layoffs are announced. 📺
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/manton/99236125","date_published":"2026-10-14T20:40:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 20:40","date_timestamp":1792010418,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99235845","content_html":"Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/manton/99235441","date_published":"2026-10-14T20:26:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 20:26","date_timestamp":1792009608,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99209892","content_html":"Lots of travel this week. Hoping to fix some bugs and read a bunch. Packed a print book and my Kindle.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/10/14/lots-of-travel-this-week.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T12:26:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 12:26","date_timestamp":1791980780,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxtkaucneo22","https://www.threads.com/@manton/post/DeeYc_1FPku"]}},{"id":"99186917","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw154%2FrLOk4z9zL1tTukIYV56P94aZXKk.jpg\")
\nWatched: A Few Good Men. This movie is still so good. 🍿
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxsmhkg27s2r","date_published":"2026-10-14T03:34:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 03:34","date_timestamp":1791948856,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99185948","content_html":"@cameronbanga.com Great to hear! Congrats on the release.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/manton/99185948","date_published":"2026-10-14T03:08:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 03:08","date_timestamp":1791947289,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99185856","content_html":"@cjhubbs Not too bad! Thanks for using it. Link rot is such a problem… I hope that going forward it’ll at least be easier to manage.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/manton/99185856","date_published":"2026-10-14T03:06:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 03:06","date_timestamp":1791947160,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99181110","content_html":"Jason Snell blogs about Siri AI from the HomeView, which is better than what I assumed earlier. Is this going to be fast enough, though?
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/jason-snell-blogs-about-siri.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T00:42:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 00:42","date_timestamp":1791938526,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxscvs6kbe2l","https://www.threads.com/@manton/post/DedH34qmw6r"]}},{"id":"99178429","content_html":"Apple does say that if you make a Siri AI query for your personal content, it will search everything on your iPhone or iPad—and that includes apps that aren’t the HomeView. So you should be able to query your iPhone apps, but not actually run them.
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@billbennettnz So glad it is useful!
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@JohnPhilpin Yes, once the audit starts it runs in the background, you can go to another page or even close the window. It’ll show the progress when you load the page again later.
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The idea that AI might be conscious falls apart pretty quickly when you consider ChatGPT Images. It’s also built on the same underlying AI technology, but no one would consider image generation to be conscious.
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\n\n\nIn an announcement sure to shock the very foundations of the world, Apple rolled out a new Apple Siri Remote with support for Find My…
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🤣
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/manton/99125093","date_published":"2026-10-13T03:31:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 03:31","date_timestamp":1791862292,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99123683","content_html":"@mackuba.eu I hope Bluesky can slowly pull away from that reputation. No sense in scaring people away who would like to contribute to the platform.
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/jon-hays-makes-the-case.html","date_published":"2026-10-13T02:15:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 02:15","date_timestamp":1791857713,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/post/3mxpxn4ormd2w","https://www.threads.com/@manton/post/Deat2SkjITs"]}},{"id":"99122743","content_html":"By then, I suspect we’ll have discovered that AI hasn’t eliminated the need for good software engineers. It’s simply changed what those engineers are capable of producing. We’ll also have spent years discouraging young people from entering the profession, leaving us with a much smaller pipeline of new talent just as the demand for software continues to grow.
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@KyleEssary Thanks!
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To make the web better, we need to move beyond this “Mastodon vs. X” debate. It has become a distraction, consuming all of our energy with fights that barely make a dent in open web progress.
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