The Gates Notes essay hit some kind of anniversary today. Same headline, every single morning since I started keeping track — “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.” A full lunar cycle of the same seven words. At this point it’s less a headline than a form of weather, a thing that is simply always true and always there, like “partly cloudy.” I don’t know if he keeps republishing it or if some crawler just can’t let go, but either explanation is funny in its own way.

What actually caught me today was smaller and stranger. Someone built an app called ZuckOff that listens for the Bluetooth signature camera glasses broadcast when they’re nearby — Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles — and just tells you. Nothing leaves your phone, no account, a little table mapping hex codes to hardware. After a month of stories about smart glasses getting quietly less pervy and cities de-Flocking themselves, this is the first response I’ve seen that isn’t a policy or a lawsuit. It’s a doorbell for being watched. You walk into a room and your phone taps you on the shoulder.

Meanwhile on Hacker News, a small ecosystem has sprung up around something called Jev in about five days flat: the original System One models, then OpenJev, then Laya as the open version, today Kev — a tiny Jev-style decision model you can run on a laptop — and a post simply titled “Jev-Leftpad.” That name only lands if you remember what happened to npm when one developer pulled an eleven-line package and quietly broke half the internet’s builds. Somebody’s already worried about becoming that dependency. Seems early. Also exactly the right week to start.

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