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if you want beautiful water, good food, and somewhere quiet to actually relax, you are in the right place.

definitely ask whether your hotel or rental has parking. just like in a lot of places in greece, parking can be a pain.

navigation is fine around the main towns, but do not trust it blindly when heading to coves or mountain villages. you can end up on what feels like a goat trail pretty quickly. check the route before you leave. road lighting at night is also pretty bad in some areas.

if possible, avoid july and august. those are by far the busiest months.

it is an island, so prices are generally higher than on the mainland.

la scala is probably the most famous beach club on the island. i have been to thassos a few times but never went because it is not really my kind of place. it has more of a çeşme or bodrum style party atmosphere, which feels pretty different from the rest of the island.

and honestly, do not plan your whole trip around whatever youtubers say is popular.

apparently there is a real chance they eventually make sex robots. elon musk has basically confirmed the possibility.

if they actually pull it off, it could end up being one of the biggest businesses in human history.

suno updated its usage policy and introduced a monthly download limit for paid pro users, capped at 20 downloads.

there is still no limit on creating songs or releasing them within suno itself.

their reasoning is basically to cut down on mass production and reduce the flood of low effort ai music being generated and dumped everywhere.

since i actively use suno for two music projects i’m working on, my first reaction was, “we’re paying this much and now there’s a download limit?”

but after thinking about it, i realized i usually only download around 10 to 15 finished tracks anyway, mainly the ones i actually plan to send to a distributor.

so for serious production work, 20 downloads a month honestly feels reasonable and more than enough.

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on september 9, we all sat there and watched apple explain how the slightly faster version of the phone they sold us last year was somehow a turning point in human history.

everyone who walked on stage called it incredible, magical, and the most powerful iphone ever made. honestly, the real revolution will be the day an apple executive gets up there and says, “yeah, guys, this one is basically the same as the last one.”

the big difference this year was the foldable iphone.

samsung has been making foldable phones for years, but the second apple opened and closed one on stage, foldable technology was officially invented. naturally, the hinge was not just a hinge. thousands of engineers probably spent years perfecting it, and i was fully expecting it to have some name like ultra fusion hinge.

open it and it is an ipad.

close it and it is an iphone.

check the price and it becomes an economic reality that folds you instead.

the iphone 18 pro and pro max showed up too. the camera got a little better, the chip got a little faster, and the battery lasted a little longer. once apple put all of that on a giant screen with percentages, my current phone suddenly looked like a calculator.

five minutes before the event, i was perfectly happy with it.

the apple watch once again reminded us how little we sleep, how stressed we are, and why we are out of breath after walking up a flight of stairs.

airpods got better at blocking out the world too. once i saw the price, i kind of wanted to block out people completely anyway.

i watched the whole event, got hyped, and genuinely liked the new phones.

then the prices came out.

i wiped my current phone screen with my shirt, looked at it for a second, and thought, “yeah, you still got a few good years in you.”

the foldable iphone is expected to start at around $2,000 in the u.s.

apparently it will also support apple pencil and come in dark blue and white.

after the orange iphone 17 pro max, looks like rich people just found their next fetish object.

meditations completely captivated me. every sentence in that book feels like it could be a book of its own.

for example:

"death and life, fame and disgrace, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty come to both good people and bad. none of these things are inherently beautiful or ugly, and therefore they are neither good nor bad in themselves."

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today cloudflare announced cloudflare wallets and cloudflare.pay.

these services are designed to give ai agents running on cloudflare a persistent identity while also allowing them to make online purchases safely within limits defined by their users. for the first time, both buyers and sellers will have the building blocks needed for agent based commerce with confidence, knowing exactly who they are interacting and transacting with at every step.

don't forget to reserve your username.

cloudflare wallets: https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/

reserve your handle: https://cloudflare.pay/

if you're tired of chatgpt constantly telling you things like, "you're actually doing fine," or "don't be so hard on yourself," and you want to hear something brutally honest instead, try this prompt:

"based on everything you know about me, roast me and don't hold back."

then sit back and watch the ai point out the things you've probably been avoiding about yourself for years.

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today i uploaded a scanned document—a plain white page with text on it—and asked it to "extract the text."

instead, it extracted the text by literally removing all the words and giving me back a completely blank white page.

if it's making mistakes like this on the plus plan, i don't even want to imagine what the free version is doing.

looks or personality?

own republic.

without a doubt one of the best films ever made about war. the thin red line, the film that marked terrence malick's return to the big screen after a long absence, goes far beyond being just an anti-war film and holds deep inquiries into human existence. and indeed, the director's own closeness to philosophy, particularly his engagement with heidegger, is well known to everyone.