Politics
Boiling over
It's iPhone week and I should be thinking mostly about iPhone specs and Apple Watch quirks, but here I am reacting to the news of the day, Charlie Kirk's murder. Of course, mindless partisans like Elon Musk will say this is proof that only the left is violent, but that'
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This was the best iPhone event in years
I've had a little time to sleep on it, and I think yesterday's iPhone update is set to be the best year-on-year upgrade to the iPhone line in many years. This stands in contrast to previous years where, for example, the iPhone 16 lineup was basically a spec bump
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iPhone event blind reactions
For the first time in well over a decade, I wasn't able to watch the Apple iPhone announcement live, and I just finished watching it now. I haven't been online all day, so I have no idea what other people have said, which is a great way to write a blog
Introducing Cozy Zone!
Today, I'm happy to announce the next era of the Comfort Zone podcast: Cozy Zone.
Cozy Zone is
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+ Let's talk about Atlasian buying The Browser Company
Let's get through my feelings on the most corporate of corporate companies buying the browser company who said they didn't care about corporate power users.
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Samsung stole this from Apple who stole it from Google
Back in 2021, Google released the Pixel 6 with a unique camera bar.
Then 3 years later they adjusted it to being a bar with rounded ends in the Pixel 9.
Then Apple was rumored to have a new design where they adopt a bar (with the Air apparently going to look very much like
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Some Americans kinda like fascism
Garrett M. Graff: America Tips Into Fascism
America has become a country where armed officers of the state shout “Papers please!” on the street at men and women heading home from work, a vision we associate with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany or the KGB in Soviet Russia, and where masked men wrestle to the
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Are 70% of iPhone users actually planning on buying an iPhone 17?
Hartley Charlton writing for MacRumors: Survey: Nearly 70% of Users Plan to Upgrade to iPhone 17
Smartphone price comparison platform SellCell surveyed over 2,000 U.S.-based iPhone users in August to assess upgrade interest and brand loyalty before Apple's event. According to the data, 68.3% of current iPhone users intend
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Arrows flying over my head
Moser'S Frame Shop: I Am an AI Hater
I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and
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The remarkable rise of solar power gives me hope
Peter Martin: When It Comes to Power, Solar Could Leave Nuclear and Everything Else in the Shade
Installed solar capacity is doubling every three years, meaning it has grown tenfold in the past 10 years. The Economist says the next tenfold increase will be the equivalent of multiplying the world's entire fleet of
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Michelle Khare is insane
And I mean that in a good way. She recreated Tom Cruise's stunt from Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation,
Bandcamp's update on tariffs
Via a Bandcamp email to customers today:
Significant changes are coming to global tariffs (import taxes imposed by a government) that may impact how packages enter the United States.
In practice, this means fees may be applied to some types of merchandise on US-bound shipments, and some Bandcamp sellers may choose to temporarily pause
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The one thing in the new Hasselblad X2D II that made me go "wow!"
Tyler Stalman's video is a good overview of the new Hasselblad is quite good, and is about as close as I'll ever get to owning this $7,000 camera. Obviously there are several things about it that made me jealous, but the one that really got me was that this sucker
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What causes bad passkey experiences
Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple, on Mastodon: What causes bad passkey experiences
By listening to lots and lots of feedback, I’ve learned that if someone’s main experience with passkeys is with a password manager that doesn’t natively integrate into the OS it’s running on — instead, one that hijacks
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Computers automated baseball scouting…and now there are more baseball scouts than ever
This video isn’t about AI taking jobs, but it may as well be. I’m sure many of us have seen the movie Moneyball, which was a story about how analytics wildly disrupted the world of baseball scouts. The expectation was that now that computers do scouting better than humans have traditionally done the
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Insane Majora's Mask fan movie
RwanLink is an animator who has been making Zelda fan videos for 12 years on YouTube, and their latest is
Great songs with modest beginnings
I love this video so much. Little did they, or any of the dozen people in the audience, know that 4 years later this was going to be one of the most iconic songs of their generation.
