How to see the ML-derived keywords for a photo or video in iCloud Photos:

1. Run: brew install RhetTbull/osxphotos/osxphotos
2. In the Photos app, select the image
3. Run: osxphotos query --mute --quiet
   --uuid "$(osxphotos uuid)"
   --print '{label}'

Cool!

I use both Instacart and ChatGPT, and just tried this. It's an absolute joke. Broken. If you can't oneshot a full order, you'll "slip out" of agentic mode and into normal conversation. Total Junk. techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/you-can-buy-your-instacart-groceries-without-leaving-chatgpt/

Whenever I introduce myself as Justin in Japan, there's a 30% chance they'll reply "JASUTEEN BEEBAA" and I'll snap back, "no I am nothing like Justin Bieber."

Or am I? x.com/justinbieber/status/1997125645437194682

Amazing to think that—adjusting for inflation—the entirety of Warner Brothers is worth significantly less than Activision. Call of Duty and Candy Crush matter more than Harry Potter, HBO, DC comics, etc. reuters.com/legal/transactional/netflix-agrees-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-division-2025-12-05/

Sam should simply ask ChatGPT how to make ChatGPT better techmeme.com/251201/p35

Happy Thanksgiving. This is for you: posseparty.com/

The job of a programmer is to manage exactly two things: uncertainty and complexity.

Code is sometimes an asset and sometimes a liability, but itself has no meaning outside the context of those two factors.

It's time to work out and I realized I left my gym clothes in the laundry machine overnight and they're still damp. For some reason, I refuse to just wear them because—as opposed to being sweaty—they are now "the wrong kind of wet."

I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with GPT-5 since release, because OpenAI's "codex" model was—in my experience—bad at coding.

Well, their new "GPT-5.1-Codex-Max" model absolutely smokes any model OpenAI has put out before. Much higher code quality and 2-3 times as fast.

Breaking Change is a lot of things, but likely to be replaced by an AI podslop factory isn't one of them thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/

Codex CLI and I invented a full client-side CMS for the blog using the GitHub and S3 APIs, then I wired up a new "wisp" media type to syndicate Instagram stories. See the top of justin.searls.co/

Anyone else have some number of HomePods suddenly playing audio with no prompting? Always a few seconds, then it cuts out. Updated to 26.1, no dice. Restored firmware, nada. Won't even pause when I touch the top.

Sigh.

Spectrum's technician was denied entry to my neighborhood, because WiFi calling failed to connect the gatehouse's call to my iPhone, because Spectrum's Internet was down. congrats-you-played-yourself.gif

Apple is finally selling PSVR2 controllers for use with VIsion Pro… for $249.

I bought a barely-used PSVR 2 headset + controllers for $170 off eBay a couple months ago apple.com/xc/product/HS8H2ZM/A