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Apple could do the right thing. I’m not holding my breath.
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
You know what’s “offensive and sexualized,
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My app defaults in 2025 (a few days late)
Robb Knight: App Defaults 2026
It's been a couple of years since my first post in this series.
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If anyone can do it in 45 minutes, it’s not special
This post on Twitter is notable:
This guy literally builds a full AI app from scratch in 45 mins
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Don't fall in love with the product, fall in love with the problem
Bryan Cantrill: Love your customers
At Oxide, we believe that the best companies—the most enduring ones—love their customers,
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That’s just how media discussions go
Reddit user jess77x made this comment about Pluribus:
The discourse around this show is so weird. It's either
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Third Republican US President in a row invades a sovereign nation without good reason (it's oil)
Anatoly Kurmanaev and Tyler Pager with live updates for The New York Times: Explosions Are Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
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Clean energy had a baller 2025
Kathryn Krawczyk from Canary Media: Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar’s monumental rise is
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Let stories end
Amanda Hess for The New York Times in 2018: The End of Endings
Didn’t endings used to mean something?
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What if we ended the "podcast"?
Andru Marino writing for The Verge: It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’
In 2026, instead of trying
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LLMs can be poisoned
From the Anthropic blog: A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
It remains unclear how far
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When your Apple ID gets banned…
Last Friday, Paris Buttfield-Addison posted 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple, which kind of
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Ghostty goes non-profit
Mitchell Hashimoto: Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity
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Streaming music is the lie we tell each other
Stephanie Vee: Delete Spotify? Sure, But Don't Just Replace it With Another Subscription
streaming music sucks for almost
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The Information has some information on Apple's 2026 lineup
The Information had a new report out this week that has a bunch of info about some upcoming Apple products.
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Times New Roman, Calibri, and who accessibility is for (hint: all of us)
In what might be a first for the platform, Jonathan Hoefler posted an insightful thread on Threads about a topic
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Bye, bye, Face ID
There are some new potential leaks about the upcoming folding iPhone, and this bit stood out to me:
The leaker
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Why hasn't the desktop UI evolved in years?
I really enjoyed this talk by Scott Jenson, who did UX at Apple and Google, and now works with Mastodon.
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It's just technology
Richard Stallman in Reasons not to use ChatGPT
I call it a "bullshit generator" because it generates output