413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/09/24
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This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it.
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- Previously on The Talk Show, with Merlin:
- Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one)
- Holiday Party 2020 (the good one)
- Yours truly, on this week: “How It Went”.
- Seki Edge nail clippers:
- Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.
- The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, where Merlin first recommended these to me.
- Get them at Amazon for $16. Buy two pairs.
- Kai scissors. Get a few pairs of these too.
- Merlin’s Wisdom Project. Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good.
- Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”.
- Merlin’s Happy Place — a YouTube playlist, comprised of “Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren
October 31, 2024
•101m
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
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Links:
- Yours Truly: “In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement”.
- “Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM”.
- Dan, in a column for Macworld: “The Truth Behind Apple’s Most Unpopular Decisions: It’s Not About You”.
- M4 iMac:
- M4 Mac Mini, now even mini-er:
- Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.
- Dan Moren: “The M4 Mac Mini: Tricks and Treats”.
- M4 MacBook Pros:
- All Souls Lost — Dan’s latest novel, a modern noir mystery.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
November 18, 2024
•114m
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.
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Links:
- Joanna on YouTube: “I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots”.
- Joanna’s excellent interview with Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence, which is also on YouTube.
- My commentary linking to it.
- Ann-Marie Alcántara’s Wall Street Journal piece: “When Did Apple’s Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains?” (also on News+)
- Larry David on Siri.
- Voight-Kampff Test.
- There’s a social media thing where people are posting ChatGPT’s illustrations from the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.”
- Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.
- Here’s Joanna’s: Boy Scouts, basketball, cameras, computers, and lots of bagels.
- Here’s an alternate from Joanna.
- The Gruber and Coudal families, leaving Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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