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Super slick buried Extend marketing
there's even an extend api key in there (invalid though, would've been cool if it did something special)
Landed on it like 3 clicks in and immediately closed the page.
Given the context this made me assume extend is also some kind of a scam
this site is so slick great job! love how the email in the iphone works
woah this is such a throwback, made me oddly nostalgic. great fucking work
The page crashes instantly in Safari on iOS on an iPhone 13.
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Doesn’t load at all on an iPhone 7
The memory limit for Safari on iOS is less than 400 MB so it's probably because of that
I love how incredibly vapid the emails and text messages are.

And by love I of course mean: I love, LOVE, LOVE, [repeat ad nauseam]

Nails on a chalkboard.

Whoa. With a lidar scan of my house, a drone-captured point cloud of my neighborhood, and a backup of my icloud, I could create an immersive 3D snapshot of my life. And then what if other people did the same and we networked them together, so that we can actually interact in the snapshot. It'd be like second life except actually cloned from real lives. weird
And then you realize how boring it is.
That is exactly the idea of some minecraft projects: Mapping the entire world into minecraft.
This is the core concept behind the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" (201).

Like most early-season episodes, it's incredibly depressing but absolutely worth watching. And honestly, I wouldn't mind if AI researchers were forced to watch it (along with The Animatrix).

At the very least I would love a driving simulation based on that data. That way I can practice driving in weird neighborhoods without the stress
All I feel is that UI of MacOS and iOS is so inferior now than it was then... :\
If only apps were opening in an instant, odd feeling of having it on random website but not have it natively.
Unfortunately the OS itself won't be the be-all / end-all, crossplatform (web) apps and a lack of care for optimization are the other major issue. I just timed how long it takes to open the 'calendar' tab in Teams - 8.5 seconds. MacOS' own calendar app takes <2 seconds (unrepresentative test due to factors) and does not show a screen with a spinner.
Same, but for that generation of MacBook Air. Insane quality and value for the price. And you didn't have to wait 6 weeks to get them!

Although I bet Lizzie used a Pro..

I think this is the first time I've seen someone yearn for iOS 9.
Well, I opine for iOS 5, but its only in retrospect that you can see how much worse its gotten…

Windows 10 is only looked on favourably because Windows 11 was so bad, most people stuck to Windows 7 when 10 was popular- same concept.

But its MacOS that has had the sharpest decline of those presented.

I finished the juice. Now what ?

LOL

Excellent work! All the best for the documentary launch!

This is great, it reminds me of promotional websites from the Adobe Flash era. Ads were a lot more fun back then.
They replaced the old space jam website with a boring href to a yt of the trailer :(

https://www.spacejam.com/

I cant believe they've done this. They didnt even use iframes.
It should be trivial to reauthor .swf content to modern web standards.
Macromedia Flash 1.0 was released the same year as the Space Jam website, I don't think it used .SWFs. In fact I don't remember .SWFs being common until 2002-2003 (but that's my biased viewpoint, since that's when I discovered Newgrounds.)
I get a secure connection failure. Maybe it's for the best
In the "Notes" app on the iphone, there is a note which says "msg me on X". Back then, it was Twitter. Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
What are we to believe this is some sort of, snort heh* magic iPhone or something?
She was truly ahead of her time.
its still called twitter

(for some of us)

I will never call it X and die violently on this hill
How about Xitter? :)
I prefer “Elon’s Musk’s Garden of Child Porn Generation and Reactionary Shitheads”
Maybe there is such a thing as a good walled garden after all...
pronounced "shitter"?
I've accepted X and call the posts "crements"
it's just kinda awkward, but worse than just "X" is the fact that now you're supposed to call tweets "posts on X" or "X posts"

like come on... it was so good before

If Elon Musk can deadname, we can too.
Rest assured that I still refuse to call it X, it's so stupid. But I couldn't pass up the opportunity in this instance. :)
I'd love to agree with you but that look like the site designer asking for feedback on his site
> I hope somebody got fired for that blunder Their name is probably Claude.
Not that it matters or anyone cares, but it's so obvious Balwani was manipulating her emotionally. There are so many instances where he says "Love you", or "love" or "I am in love with your beauty", while she is more direct like "I love you", "I am in love with you" etc.
I don't see how either of your examples are necessarily more direct than the other?
Content marketing for a startup that does "Document infrastructure for agents". They want you to sign up for an event they're hosting in SF.
Feels like they are unintentionally marketing the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary rather than themselves.
Maybe creating the documentary was the most ambitious Nathan For You episode yet, and all simply to build publicity for this company.
The plan…

- Create a series of increasingly surreal reality TV shows that blur the distinctions between how we see ourselves and how we present to the world as characters.

- Convince a reality-distorting corporate sociopath that my experience making these shows makes me the ideal person to tell her misunderstood story to the world in a breakthrough documentary film.

- Use an advance screening of the film to generate publicity for this previously obscure AI document management startup.

Reddit is full of EH content lately, now this.

All of this must be a marketing campaign for the movie.

and most of it pumped years ago through JRE
Wait, this isn't marketing for the documentary?
I mean, fair play? I appreciate marketing that has effort involved, especially these days.

You do have to get your word out somehow

I would prefer if they were upfront about it so I could just not click on it.
The event they're hosting is a free watch party for the movie. You didn't exactly crack the case.
At least this is a fun ad. I appreciate the level of commitment the developers put into it. It's not just vibe coded slop which is rare
A24 (the studio behind the movie) is one of our customers, so we're hosting a watch party in SF

plus, we used our APIs to parse all the theranos PDFs to power the experience

hope our content marketing made your day a bit more fun!

Where’s the party? I just built something similar to your product for an SF-based non-profit (fully self-hosted on site) and it’s been extremely useful. Would love to get tips on how we can improve our setup.
You should understand what reaction some of us have to blithe "what is your Twitter handle": instant disqualification and interest goes to zero.

AI industry participation in that hellsite is an ongoing abomination. It is complacency with Musk's undermining of democracy, and complacency with the amplification of white nationalist and right wing agitprop, exploitative porn, and crypto grifting.

Is that the association you want? It's the one you're making.

PSA

I mean this in the best way possible: This reminds me so much of Microsoft Bob if it had survived to 2016.
Sneaky and a little icky, but novel enough to pass.
[delayed]
Makes sense. I stack books every time I clean my table, but they get out of stack pretty quickly.
The reminders section is the second most entertaining bit after the messages. Look it up. It's hilarious!!!
Love the camera jump scare. Genius
Can't stop laughing at this one!
Burying the api key in notes on the laptop is a nice touch.
I need to delete that key again. I keep recreating it with the same value, but nothing seems to work. I want to use this key with the value but in a way that nobody else knows the value. Sigh. Security is difficult.
Why do I have Nathan Fielder's look in my face (same when he was staring at as EH on the pilot), as I'm going through all the features on this site?
Hope you're lounging on somebody else's bed too, while you're doing that. :D
I spent way to much time with that :-D
It's so strange to see this here. I remember when this site was nothing but foaming-at-the-mouth fawning adoration of Elizabeth Holmes long after her scams were exposed.
This is an ad for her upcoming, self-starred documentary. So nothing much has changed?
Kinda cool, but also annoying that it's just backdoor marketing for a b2b SaaS company.
This is inspired by jmail.world, which may have been inspired itself.

It is obviously not as interesting as jmail.world, but, give her time

As someone who only knows Theranos by the creepy lady and that they did some scam this is very interesting. Only critique is that it calls Twitter X, which isn't historically accurate.
It is a bit hilarious that most of the "apps" open faster in a fake desktop simulated inside the browser than it actually does natively on my Macbook Pro

*yes i know, not apples to apples.