Working on stuff 👨‍💻 Check out Firesky to watch the Bluesky firehose: 👉 https://firesky.tv 🐦 https://twitter.com/johnspurlock 🐘 https://podcastindex.social/@jshttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mqapscdhnc2hlet's see if there's anything interesting in iOS 27 beta 3: #wwdc - AppIntents: lots of churn, refactoring? - CoreSpotlight: dusted off and brought up to date with availability annotations etc - AppManagedFeatures (undocumented? what is this for?): ActivationExtension -> AppManagedFeaturesExtension09 Jul 2026 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqapscdhnc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq7sqqybec2v‘His advertising model is, by design, unlike anything else in podcasting. There is no CPM, the cost an advertiser pays for every 1,000 impressions. There is a flat partnership rate, a minimum commitment of one year, and in most cases, a single advertiser per show’ https://fortune.com/2026/07/05/how-david-senra-built-founders-podcast-powerful-ceos-spotify-bezos-coinbase-ramp-tbpn/?lml202609 Jul 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7sqqybec2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq7ritofik2u‘We cannot choose to become idiots’ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/07/08/brown-professor-suspects-most-his-class-used-ai-cheat09 Jul 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7ritofik2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq7r6ihjgk2h‘Unfortunately, when every interesting person chooses comfort over creativity, we end up with four different Spider-Man 2s.’ https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance-209 Jul 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7r6ihjgk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq7qcywevk2r‘Football suits podcasting in a way few sports do. It can serve the biggest audience and the smallest niche with equal weight. Every former player can have a show. Every club, however small, can have a following that wants its own coverage.’ https://soundinsights.substack.com/p/the-english-football-podcast-landscape09 Jul 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7qcywevk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq56md4bcc2b‘In retrospect, he said, the "trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn't really accelerated in the way that we expected"’ https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/08 Jul 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq56md4bcc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq563kvj7s2ddamn - time to write my own I guess maestral.app08 Jul 2026 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq563kvj7s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mq2squepvs2r‘Participants proposed a tiered system: basic open-source tools subject to a simple filing, ​more advanced technologies facing security reviews, and the most sensitive frontier models barred from public release or restricted to domestic use.’ https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/07 Jul 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2squepvs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpymwajdxk2p👀06 Jul 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpymwajdxk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpympxrkgs2pbeta 3 day! #wwdc releasing like clockwork recently https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/?id=07062026g06 Jul 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpympxrkgs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpyhlnanzc2d‘Two of China’s major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps are moving to disable customized agent features. The timing coincides with the implementation of: Interim Measures for the Administration of Artificial Intelligence Anthropomorphic Interaction Services’ https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3359482/bytedance-and-alibaba-disable-humanlike-ai-custom-agents-new-rules-loom06 Jul 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyhlnanzc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpvocyo5kc2r‘New hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.’ https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai05 Jul 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvocyo5kc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mptq5b3wzk25🇺🇸04 Jul 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptq5b3wzk25https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpqlful3a22vbrilliant! paul.kinlan.me/ua-tracer/ https://paul.kinlan.me/ua-tracer/03 Jul 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqlful3a22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpp6h4kipk2fgoogle used to be the place to go for the right answer02 Jul 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp6h4kipk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpp5t5dh6s2bNew data: Top CDNs used by the 1.8 million new podcast episodes found in June 2026 https://livewire.io/podcast-cdns-by-episode-share/02 Jul 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp5t5dh6s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mponeldrk22jNew data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.8 million new episodes published in June 2026 https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/02 Jul 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mponeldrk22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpohy6sc6k2jNew data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.8 million new episodes published in June 2026 - Ignore the Spotify numbers this month, see my note https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/02 Jul 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpohy6sc6k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpog7agnls2jwhat's the german word for advice-from-your-corporate-electric-provider-that-you-already-do-every-single-day-anyway02 Jul 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpog7agnls2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpofor7wcs2jjust what everyone wanted! msft puts a copilot sign in button up in the title bar as part of the new vscode update (right-click in there to hide)02 Jul 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpofor7wcs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpo6zk342s2v‘I see Claude’s writing style on Reddit, I see it on X, I see it on Hacker News, and I see it on LinkedIn. I hear Claude’s voice in a house, I hear Claude’s voice with a mouse.’ https://jerodsanto.net/2026/06/claudes-writing-style-has-me-on-edge/02 Jul 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpo6zk342s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpo6tn4zhc2e‘I find myself being more deliberate in design descisions, and writing too, so my work resembles something made, not generated.’ https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2026-the-vibes-are-off.html02 Jul 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpo6tn4zhc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpo5sjice22p"For all new domains, the categories of Training and Agent will be blocked by default on the pages that display ads" + "multi-purpose crawlers such as Googlebot, Applebot, and BingBot will be blocked by customers who have selected to block Training" = googlebot blocked, no? https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/02 Jul 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpo5sjice22phttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpmntlkklk2i⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ 📰 🎤 ⚽ www.hollywoodreporter.com/h/charts/01 Jul 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmntlkklk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mpmehkpf2k22‘SHOCKING Truth About Sears Automotive Stores Near Me: Find Your Local Center NOW!’01 Jul 2026 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmehkpf2k22https://bsky.app/profile/johnspurlock.com/post/3mplrl67pwc24Just updated my graphs of @transistor.fm's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of June 2026 https://livewire.io/transistor-stats-visualized/01 Jul 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:mceyt3qjswifxtikqqwvnnge/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplrl67pwc24