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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.
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Blood Oxygen comes back to the Apple Watch, with a catch
Apple Newsroom: An Update on Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch in the U.S.
There will be no impact to Apple Watch units previously purchased that include the original Blood Oxygen feature, nor to Apple Watch units purchased outside of the U.S.
This weird saga continues, and it's good that Apple'
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The productivity movement that's never resonated with me
Joan Westenberg: I Deleted My Second Brain
The “second brain” metaphor is both ambitious and (to a degree) biologically absurd. Human memory is not an archive. It is associative, embodied, contextual, emotional. We do not think in folders. We do not retrieve meaning through backlinks. Our minds are improvisational. They forget on purpose.
Everyone needs
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The new "command line" is insanely popular
MacKenzie Sigalos: OpenAI: ChatGPT Set to Hit 700 Million Weekly Active Users This Week
OpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth
A couple observation here:
1. There is a subset of
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People really do change
Annie from annie's blog: People Can Change
Calcification occurs when you don’t pay attention. The tissues harden in place. Things get dry and brittle. Another word for calcification is death. Change is life. Be open, and don’t be afraid to ask others to be open, too.
This post is so good.
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An accessibility angle for face computers
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: These Smart Glasses Use AI to Help Low-Vision Users
Envision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, describe surroundings, search the web, and recognize people, objects, and signs, feeding information to the user via open-ear speakers built into the ear stems.
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