Tom Cook

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generative AI blockchain-powered autonomous smoothie robot tom.horse aka 谷泰德

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Tom Cook@tom· 29d

(Indiana Jones grabbing his hat just as the big door closes)

Hitting my five hour Claude Code limit just as I got a commit in

Tom Cook@tom· 29d

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Tom Cook@tom· Jul 12

What a fun game Anthropic has given us to min/max

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 25

You know GTA6 is a big launch when the console store app rebrands their icon for it. Yikes

Screenshot of a pending update for the PlayStation app featuring a new GTA6 theme for the iOS icon

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 24

@davidpierce.xyz @reckless.bsky.social why is the vergecast subscriber artwork potato resolution? Just a me thing?

A screenshot of Overcast running on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. The artwork is very low resolution.

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 14

Can’t even escape this dumb shit on the App Store

A promo for the stupid White House UFC fight above the fold on the first screen of the iOS App Store.

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 13

Real quality engineering on this persistent prompt in Google Photos to turn on Gemini

Screenshot of Google Photos showing a dialog that looks bad

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 11

“Is Fable too restrictive?” buddy this is the very first query I asked it after launch and even it got flagged and downgraded

A Fable query for “how is bby formed” that was downgraded to Opus

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 11

Ridiculous that the launch experience of Apple Sports during the NBA Finals (and soon the World Cup) is this (cc: @pschiller.bsky.social, tell Eddy)

Screenshot of Apple Sports showing nothing

Tom Cook@tom· Jun 6

Come for the weird Meta slop feed app, stay for the spokesperson being an extremely hot mess www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Meta declined to answer many of my questions about the feature's purpose, whether the company considers the output news or fiction, what safeguards are in place, and whether images of real people and public figures comply with its own Al-content policies.
"The goal is to suggest what's most relevant to you
- such as fitness advice, meal plans, or other insights - before you even have to ask."
"We're testing a daily feed that proactively shares tips, content, and recommendations tailored to your interests," Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a brief statement. "The goal is to suggest what's most relevant to you - such as fitness advice, meal plans, or other insights - before you even have to ask."
Clayton later sent a nearly identical "updated" statement, mysteriously removing the word
"proactively."
A third statement from Clayton followed later in the day: "This was a test for a limited number of users and it will be deprecated. Meta has no plans to move forward with this feature."

Tom Cook@tom· May 31

For context three years ago they sold this absolutely banger of a coffee mug

Tom Cook@tom· May 31

Pride Month display at Target is sad as hell now

A barely assembled collection of bad rainbow products at Target for “Pride Month”

Multicolor pack of cheap cat toys for “Pride Month” at Target

Tom Cook@tom· May 29

“Unknown Senders” in iOS Messages remains undefeated for anybody that’s ever given a dollar to any political campaign.

Screenshot of all scum political texts filtered by iOS into “Unknown Senders”

Tom Cook@tom· May 13

man

Xkcd about the challenge of debugging networking problems

Tom Cook@tom· May 12

Reading this book about the creation of Windows NT and Dave Cutler’s team of rockstars coming in to Microsoft. Some things really do come full circle

A photo of a Kindle reading a book about Windows NT. A sentence is highlighted: “The differences in style were apparent to Cutler's people, who derisively referred to Microsoft as "Microslop."

Tom Cook@tom· May 3

Saw these guys working today next to 280. Linemen seriously earn their pay.

A gigantic crane dangling a basket with two linemen out next to a high tension power line tower next to I-280 in San Mateo county.

Tom Cook@tom· Apr 8

Screw that. We all need some levity. Here’s one I saw in San Mateo a few months back (zoom in to the plate frame)

Tom Cook@tom· Apr 6

My kid got a stuffed dog from IKEA and chose the name “Sketch” out of nowhere. I’m furious because it’s such a good dog name and we burned it on a stuffed dog.

Tom Cook@tom· Apr 4

TIL Google has an internal group for watch enthusiast employees that commissions custom watches with Google branding elements like their colors and office codes. This was a run of 100. www.reddit.com/r/Watches/s/...

A photo of a Nomos Club Worldtimer with an ivory dial, a sub-dial in the Google primary colors, and Google office codes replacing the normal city codes on the time zone outer dial.

This collab was done through C&H Premier in Northern California, and it was a limited run of 100.

Tom Cook@tom· Apr 2

Finally a place where tech media can talk about AI

TBPN has built something pretty special. It's one of the places where the conversation about Al and builders is actually happening day to day. A lot of you already watch it, and rely on it to stay close to what's going on.

Tom Cook@tom· Mar 30

Interesting prompt from the YouTube app

YouTube app asking if a video “feels like low quality AI”

Tom Cook@tom· Mar 28

iOS “Unknown Senders” really is a godsend to anybody that ever gave their phone number to a political candidate or party.

A bunch of blocked text messages from political sources begging for money

Tom Cook@tom· Mar 19

I think somebody just spotted the new Mac Pro (cc @siracusa.social) www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...

A photo of a pickup truck driving in San Francisco with a recreation of the classic Macintosh that fills the entire truck bed.

Tom Cook@tom· Mar 6

Nine games that made me (via my9games.com)

Nine game box covers that I played a lot of through my life.

Tom Cook@tom· Feb 5

Damnit I’m in the Epstein files for a couple of my Quora answers.

Screenshot of an email sent to Jeffrey Epstein. The email is a Quora digest highlighting answers written by a few people including Tom Cook.

Tom Cook@tom· Feb 1

Politics used to be more fun

Tom Cook@tom· Jan 28

Oh man! Amazon is killing its ”pay by scanning your palm” service in June. I know people get a little freaked out by biometrics but this was really nice for paying at Whole Food and the tech was solid. What a waste of resources and effort. Back to scanning a QR code at checkout I guess.

Tom Cook@tom· Jan 22

Tom Cook@tom· Jan 12

It rules that the LLMs don’t believe this government is as dumb or racist as it actually is every day

Tom Cook@tom· Jan 10

Even your heroes can be complete idiots. My guy you don’t have to be on twitter either. If all the people you like and respect leave a place maybe you should too!