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One of us is wildly out of touch
Ian Bogost: We’ve Forgotten How to Use Computers
Remember (if you can) the classic drag-and-drop: You’d mouse over
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Oscar nominations matter, but they’re not everything
Rebecca Sun argues the Barbie Oscar snubs aren’t as bad as some people think in BarbieGate: Why All Oscars
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Until his dying day
Bastian Allgeier: My Grandpa Was a Nazi
I wondered for many years, how all of this could have happened. How
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Here’s to another 40 🎂
Dan Moren: After 40 Years, the Mac Is Immortal
Forty years. In the world of technology, where many devices seem
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I’d like to return your product, it reminds me too much of a xenomorph
Andy Nicolaides: If VR Is the Future, I’m Screwed
Using a Quest 3, for me, is liking shipping in
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In which I get loud about Avatar out of nowhere
Robin Rendle: Be Loud About the Things You Love
A writing tip for myself in the future, if I may
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Apple will let US merchants link to payments on the web, but Apple will still take their cut
You should read Chance Miller’s whole article on 9to5Mac, but I wanted to share my immediate thoughts after seeing
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News app Artifact is shutting down next month
Kevin Systrom: Shutting Down Artifact
We have built something that a core group of users love, but we have concluded
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Probably my last Substack post for a while (Platformer joins the Ghost club)
Casey Newton: Why Platformer Is Leaving Substack
After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over
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I don’t have strong opinions about a product I haven’t used
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: iPhone Was Missing These 10 Essential Features When Unveiled in 2007
Today marks the 17th anniversary
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Who’s ready for Walmart to decide what food you buy?
David Pierce for The Verge: Walmart’s AI Search Makes Shopping Faster, and Its AI Delivery Makes It Invisible
The
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Substack wants to have its cake and eat it too
Casey Newton: Substack Says It Will Remove Nazi Publications From the Platform
over the past couple years Substack has come
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How we can maybe explain the rumored upcoming very expensive iPads
Tim Hardwick: OLED iPad Pro Prices to Start From $1,500, Rising to as Much as $2,000
Apple'
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2023 didn’t just break the iPad’s streak (“wah!”)
Zack Zwiezen: 2023 Was the First Waluigi-Less Year Since 2000
As seen on the extensive fan wiki, Waluigi has appeared
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A splash of color
Chris Nicholas: A new blog for 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post,
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Nintendo is Nintendo
Keza MacDonald: Nintendo’s Design Guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I Wanted to Make Something Weird’
Miyamoto is often called the Spielberg
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Reasons to be optimistic
Nick Heer: How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now
When I was much younger, I assumed people who were optimistic
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The future of LLMs is local
I saw this post over on json.blog, OpenAI Is Just Uber, which sounds like it makes sense, but I