mastodon 4.7.3“Thou shalt not violate causality within my historical light cone. Or else.”
Yet another Twitter refugee. Currently obsessed with The Locked Tomb series.
a little visibility for @glennf@zeppelin.flights’s Six Centuries of Type and Printing kickstarter. so close to being over the finish line! if you love history and/or typography, check out this project and consider backing it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/six-centuries-of-type-and-printing
the taste of self hatred is a cheese, mayo and mustard sandwich on white bread.
Well this is new: Apple literally lies about requiring a Keynote upgrade. This message appears every time I share a Keynote presentation since Apple Creator Studio launched.
It shares just fine. It's editable on iCloud. It displays fine on my colleague's Android phone. A new version of Keynote is demonstrably not required.
Something is rotten in Cupertino.
(Probably of interest to @daringfireball@mastodon.social )
I wonder if you’ll join Peter Watts on the list of SFF writers not allowed into the US. Not that is much of a hardship this century.
Heard a new song I like on Apple Music:
Me: Hey Siri, make a new playlist and add this song to it.
Siri: I can search the web for you when you reach your destination.
Really, Apple? It’s been over a decade and a half and Siri is still dumb as a hammer.
Qualcomm’s destruction of Arduino came a lot faster than I expected. Must have been taking lessons from Broadcom: https://itsfoss.com/news/enshittification-of-arduino-begins/?ref=selfh.st
#arduino #opensource #foss 💀
this is how a President observes memorial day. Not by tweeting hateful rhetoric in all caps.
@daringfireball@mastodon.social Noticed this in Apple's new site too: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-brings-insights-ratings-and-reviews-from-expert-sources-to-apple-maps/
I'll take any half-decent replacement for the Yelp shakedown "reviews"
What an anodyne way to say 7,600,000 people will lose healthcare with the GOP’s tax bill. Because fuck the needy.
“…Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by at least 7.6 million from the Medicaid changes, and possibly more with other changes to the Affordable Care Act.”
@daringfireball@mastodon.social Of interest: AI researchers are trying to deal with the slop problem by training LLMs on a body of writing quality assessments done by humans. I think. the abstract is a little dense:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07532
(edit: replaced xitter link with the actual paper. but i'll attach the image the author posted with… :)