kemayo

> Though the sheer fact that in 2026 it's driven by Siri who is not a conversationalist AI, but still the same frustrating voice technology from 2011 is confusing they would even bother releasing this.

This is no longer the case. Siri as of iOS 27 is a gemini-based LLM system. It has a chatbot app and everything.

Isn't that what it already does if you have the action button set to "workout"?

I actually thought the big screen worked well for it. It was cramming a lot of background detail in that was fun to see.

I saw it last night with my spouse. It was good, we laughed at a bunch of the visual gags.

It's not as good as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is the obvious comparison, but it's legitimately fun.

The experience of the trade deficit with the grocery store and the movie theater is more enjoyable, overall. I get films and ice cream and a good time out of it. From my employer I get a lot of sitting in meetings -- they have to pay me to make me put up with that!

My point is that reducing it entirely to "did I gain or receive cash-money from this?" isn't a particularly useful framing.

Look, my trade deficit with my barber is a real problem in our relationship. I need them to give me $20 for something, damnit.

You seem to be assuming that productivity scales linearly with time spent working, which doesn't seem to inherently be true.

If your factory workers spend twice as long working, it's likely that more widgets will get made. I'm not certain you can generalize too far from that, though.

> Facebook, Instagram, Reddit were more in mind when I said that.

This might be me showing I have strange views, but I don't even think of those as being in the same category of service, so I didn't think of them as a point of comparison.

> It's the one major social network I'm on where it is easy to view only posts from the people I follow, in reverse chronological order.

Oh weird, I'd rate X as medium-hard for that amongst the microposting sites I look at. Mastodon and Bluesky both default to almost-that, varying mostly in whether you need to jump through hoops to not see reposts.

X was always the one that (a) doesn't default to it, and (b) would keep "forgetting" and pushing you back to the algorithmic feed.

Granted I've never seen something like this where the chain includes a government agency saying "it's totally on this guy", but normally you can get good results from writing a dispute letter to the debt collection agency telling them to prove that you really owe this debt. The state of the industry normally means that they will not have gotten anything like actual proof from the hospital, just a line item in a spreadsheet... and if they can't prove it they're legally barred from contacting you about it or reporting it to credit bureaus.

(I've never done it, but I suspect you could get rid of a significant percentage of real debts like this, just on the strength of the industry's terrible record keeping practices.)

Same, I had no sense of the decoy message at all until I read that comment.

> "Usage of Odin in a world-class product" is enough to count as notable

I'm not even sure that would count, really. A world-class product that gets a lot of coverage is notable, for sure, but that wouldn't be enough to make some implementation detail of that product notable unless the sources really leaned on it.