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v33 - Apathetic Intelligence

Breaking Change

I hope you ordered your podcast spicy, because this version is a slow heat, but it builds. I was pretty fired up by the end of this one. If I crossed a line here, please report it to HR at podcast@searls.co and they will conduct an investigation.

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

I tossed this bouquet of URLs in the air but no one caught them:

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<p>I tossed this bouquet of URLs in the air but no one caught them:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide">Tailwind 4 Upgrades</a></li>
<li>Aaron's <a href="https://justin.searls.co/puns/">puns, ranked</a></li>
<li>There's a new <a href="https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/star-fox-veteran-reveals-loveletter-game-featuring-animal-space-pilots/">cringey Star Fox-like coming</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wulinshu.com/2025/03/11/reverse-engineering-adventures-3-bug-or-not-bug/">Shenmue 1 &amp; 2 mixed up the axial tilt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3111080/Secret_Agent_Wizard_Boy_and_the_International_Crime_Syndicate/">Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridiculous">The history of 3DFX</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-first-portable-xbox-could-reportedly-hit-shelves-this-year/">The first portable Xbox could hit shelves this year</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6MhcohPMY&amp;si=hWrTLcAgAkCOcI1_&amp;t=559">Steam Decard VR thing could also be coming</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/628579/epic">Tim Sweeney's been Elon-pilled</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tesla/627894/tesla-stock-sales-protest-musk-trump-doge">Is Tesla Cooked?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/629352/tesla-cybertruck-deliveries-on-hold-loose-trim">Cybertruck panels are flying every which way</a></li>
<li><a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/anonymous-sources-starship-will-need-a-major-rebuild-after-two-consecutive-failures/">SpaceX's Starship is fucked, apparently</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html">Why LLMs aren't like Einstein</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/">LLM refuses to code</a></li>
<li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/no-one-knows-what-the-hell-an-ai-agent-is/">No one knows what the hell an agent is</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm">crmne/ruby_llm is a new Ruby gem for interacting with LLMs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/s/fwnJgxw2Ux">Vision Pro let this guy see in 3D</a></li>
<li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/new_ui_look_ios_would_be_a_huge_deal">iOS 19 will overhaul the system UI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/13/airpods-live-translation-ios-19/">Live translation is coming to iOS 19 (sort of)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/14/end-to-end-encrypted-rcs-messaging-on-iphone/">RCS is getting End-to-End Encryption Between Android and iOS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/629940/apple-siri-robby-walker-delayed-ai-features">Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/14/iphone-17-ultra-replacing-iphone-17-pro-max-claim/">iPhone 17 Ultra may be coming</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/2149238/as-chromecast-outage-drags-on-fix-could-be-days-to-weeks-away?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Google bricked Chromecast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration">Mozilla bricked Firefoxes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/windows-10-end-of-life-set-for-this-year-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-ready">Microsoft bricked a bazillion PCs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php">Meta is run by a human brick</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/">China bricked the field of public health</a></li>
<li><a href="https://changelog.com/podcast">Stay tuned to Changelog next week</a> - I'll be on it!</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dgun_(2024_TV_series)">Shogun</a> - where the Japanese speak period-appropriate Japanese and the Portugese speak modern British English</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avowed">Avowed</a> - the best damn game I've played in a long-ass time</li>
<li><a href="https://justin.searls.co/posts/this-vision-pro-strap-is-totally-globular-/">There's a new Vision Pro strap-on in town</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise">Star Trek Enterprise</a> was good, actually</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/allstate_sued_pii_exposure/">Allstate's human engineers screwed up so the LLMs wouldn't have to</a></li>
<li><a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1557206126">AI Snipd</a> is a podcast player</li>
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