We’re still dealing with our rodent problem.
At some point while we were out of town last week, one of them must have ran over a HomePod. We got home and it was absolutely blasting dance music.
TIL: the HomePod accepts mouse input.
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Brian King
@Firewire@theforkiverse.com
mastodon 4.7.3I made TV and movies for a long time. Then I sold out to Silicon Valley. No regrets
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We gotta get this fire truck canceled.
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After Norway’s win, I got swept into a crowd and ended up sitting on the ground in front of Parliament doing a Viking Row with thousands of fans. I now understand football.
I’ve been lucky enough to participate in a lot of Apple 50 events with some very special people this week. It’s been such a rare pleasure to pause, look back and celebrate the people & technology that made my entire career possible before coming full-circle and becoming my career.
It’s been a good week.
I’ve been visiting a CrossFit gym while in Honolulu. I don’t like the affiliation with the sport/company, but I do like the coaches and workouts.
Anyway, out of all the gyms I’ve visited around the world since 2011, every single one of them have had the same playlist. Early-2000s Eminem, Imagine Dragons mixed with AC/DC-era butt-rock.
If we can use AI or whatever to update these gyms’ playlists, that would be a real win for me, personally.
There’s a house that was demolished and is now in the process of being fully rebuilt, two doors down from me.
Full volume audio of the entire construction process should be livestreamed to the owners’ current location. No mute button, no breaks.
I signed up for a Nebula trial and it …looks like the exact same slop that gets posted on YouTube?
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@_Davidsmith Just enjoyed a watch-only run through a new neighborhood. The map was a huge help!
I messed up though, and was paused for a solid half mile. A “hey dummy, you paused at that crosswalk and now you’re running again” warning would be a great addition.
Just watched the first episode of the Malcom in the Middle update. Absolutely shocked that they pulled it off.
If you haven’t been paying attention to modern house and electronic music, Fred Again’s DJ set with Thomas Bangalter (former Daft Punk robot) has been released on YouTube and is one of the most joyful things to come out of 2026. https://youtu.be/gfF8jzBVWvM
Fred again.. & Thomas Bangalter (USB002, Alexandra Palace, London 27 February 2026)
@pj@theforkiverse.com the interview with Julia Mejia is a tough listen. Calling people arrogant while loudly refusing to *consider* the safety statistics of AVs is wildly shortsighted for a public servant.
Robotaxi fleets are obviously a multifaceted issue, but Waymo Driver’s safety record is objectively better than humans.
He has no self-control.
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@TechConnectify if you had posted this in ~2005, I probably wouldn’t have murdered my ‘96 Honda Civic.
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@scalzi the thing that I always want to know when I see “kids love iPods” articles is how the hell they’re updating the music.
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Does Slack seriously not have a way to add a caption track to an uploaded video? #accessibility
I met three exterminators today. None of them were Texan or white, but they were all somehow Dale Gribble.
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@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io ooo. Does the phone need to be a blessed dev device for this to work?