How to find a good quote for a bad movie
I was watching the Apple TV ads scrolling by on my Apple TV today and I saw Fountain of Youth come up with a quote that made me raise an eyebrow. Apparently Collider called it, "The adventure movie we've been clamoring for".
It's not necessarily a crazy statement, but
Politics
Redistribution of wealth via healthcare
Not-my-favorite-guy-in-the-world Matt Yglesias talking about what Republicans actually mean when they talk about cutting Medicaid:
I think you could see there’s a mismatch in the way Mike Johnson characterizes this. He talks about: We’ve got all these able-bodied young men who are sitting on the couch
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What Microsoft thinks about games
SkillUp discussing the Microsoft layoffs I wrote about as well:
I'm particularly sensitive to this topic because the closure of Tango Gameworks last year, honest to God, fucking radicalized me when it happened. It tore a massive gaping wound in Xbox's credibility as a publisher and it became borderline impossible to
Liquid glass one month later
I've been using all of the "26" Apple operating system betas for about a month now,
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+ The endless era of deciding what we want to be human
What do we do when technology lets us offload human work?
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What is going on at Xbox Game Studios?
Microsoft is laying off over 9,000 people, including some entire game studios they have acquired. These studios were making interesting games with some buzz, including the new Perfect Dark game that had a prime slot just last year in Microsoft's game showcases. This of course comes less than a year after closing
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+ Just the best-o-masto
What if you could just get the best of your Mastodon feed without scrolling forever?
Apple
In defense of the already-killed Tahoe beta 1 Finder icon
I’m old enough to remember when people in the Apple enthusiast crowd were disgusted by the new Finder icon.
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If you haven't played Monument Valley 3 on an iPad yet, do it now before it's gone
Ash Parrish: Netflix is letting go of some of its best indie games | The Verge
Several titles like Braid, Katana
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+ The other perspective
Not everyone liked that Sarah McBride interview I linked to last week, so let's get into the other perspective.
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You are the bowling ball
Corridor Digital with another "we don't think anyone's ever gotten this shot before, so we're going to try and get it" video, and it's amazing.
The reason I want a touch screen Mac, in short
There are Windows users out there who prefer or need Windows to do what they do with a computer, but they really like the look of Mac hardware. They like the speed, the reliability, the design, the battery life…they just can't get what they need software-wise, so they find a Windows
Seriously, use the browser you like, don't worry about battery
Last year I compared the battery life using Safari and Chrome on a Mac. The critical thing that was different
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Dia killed Arc, but it's not clear why
Matt Alexander writing about his impressions of Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company (aka what they stopped working on Arc to pursue):
In all, I think they've built a decently attractive skin for Chrome. It's somewhat privacy-minded on the surface, but poses a tremendous amount of questions a
Comfort Zone
Better stickies!
Chris won't stop talking about the iPad, I won't stop talking about the Switch 2, and
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Miniature Calendar is daily joy in your feed
Miniature Calendar is a great site I've been following for many years now, and they create miniature scenes everyday and post them with no commentary at all. Their recent Bullet Time is a good example, but I highly recommend giving them a follow if you want something delightful in your feeds everyday.
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Social media warps our sense of reality
Here's Delaware congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first openly trans member of Congress, talking with Ezra Klein about two topics near and dear to my heart: how we behave on social media and how the social media era has warped our perception of reality. These are longer quotes than normal, but that's
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+ Here we go again
I once again find myself writing code…
