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You have got to be kidding me
Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican Causes
On Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon Musk speak — and give away two giant cardboard checks for $1 million. Attendance at the event was limited to people who had added
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I've moved to Ghost Pro
Here's hoping this post is short and sweet…
Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress
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Settings > Default Apps > Voice Assistant
Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow you to set a different default voice assistant:
it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a new bar for the Siri team
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Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess
Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress
Investors were caught flat-footed by Trump’s animus toward Canada, which wasn’t a part of last year’s election campaign. Global markets were then roiled by the fallout from the Oval Office
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I keep telling people Google TV is better than you think
Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes
In short: Google TV is tasteful, well done, supports live streaming decently if not perfectly, and is a great extension of the Google ecosystem. As someone who does use YouTube TV and YouTube Premium, if I had to stop using my Apple TV tomorrow I’
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Before you burn it down…
I enjoyed this quote from Casey Newton on today's Hard Fork podcast:
Even as somebody who generally likes technology, I think some of these tech oligarchs have this extremely know-it-all attitude that "our tech is better than your tech, yours sucks," and they sort of bluster in and they
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The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads
Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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Comfort Zone
Should we do a Conclave?
Niléane insists she's not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and
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Balatro continues to bring a smile
Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous
It’s an arrangement that the Playstack team figured out with LocalThunk ahead of other ceremonies like The Game Awards, where Balatro won three awards and was nominated for Game of the Year. LocalThunk didn’t want to be public, but he also didn’
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My job doesn't need to exist?
Rands: The Product Engineer
You don’t need Product Managers. There. I said it.
As someone who just moved into a product management role, you had best believe this line caught my eye. 👀
The post makes some reasonable arguments, although I think a lot of it is an argument against having bad product managers. I&
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+ Why don't I post mock ups anymore?
Hey, where did the design concepts go?
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This alert must die
I really thought that the screen recording notifications in macOS Sequoia would be the bane of my existence, but thankfully
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The tale of Narcissus
Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students?
I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.”
But that’s just sophistry and spin.
Parents, for example, have
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I feel more empowered than ever
Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe
Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and purpose-built developer tools—have meaningfully increased the rate at which new software can be produced. And they’ve done so both by making skilled developers more productive while also lowering the bar for less-experienced
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OS updates should respect my settings
Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence if You Turned It Off
With new iOS software updates, Apple has been automatically turning Apple Intelligence on again even for users who have disabled it, a decision that has become increasingly frustrating for those that don't want to
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The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival
Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z
Low-tech holds nostalgic appeal and may even offer a solid antidote to our increasingly fast-paced tech-driven society. For 78% of those polled, one reason they enjoy using retro gadgets is because it
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Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist
Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.
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> I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that
