Jamelle Bouie has started posting video essays on his YouTube channel about the current US political crisis. His latest one is an adaptation of his NY Times piece, There Is No Going Back.
Now, even if Musk had been elected to office, this would still be one of the worst a...
On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the US now scores a 0, its lowest score since the Civil War. “The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy.”
Follow-up:
Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
Tailgate Tub
Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ry...
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in
more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on
the social media platform in November 2023 following controversial
remarks made by its owner Elon Musk.
For example, the @A...
Apple Newsroom:
The Apple TV app is now available to download from Google Play on
Android mobile devices — including phones, tablets, and foldables — offering Android users access to hit, award-winning Apple
Original series and films on Apple TV+, along with MLS Season
P...
Benj Edwards, writing at Ars Technica:
The original idea for WikiTok originated from developer Tyler
Angert on Monday evening when he tweeted, “insane project
idea: all of wikipedia on a single, scrollable page.” Bloomberg
Beta VC James Cham replied, “Even better, an inf...
WikiTok is the creation of Isaac Gemal. The premise is that it’s a TikTok-style interface for random articles from Wikipedia. One thing at a time on screen, swipe up to scroll down to the next item whenever you’re ready, and you can keep going forever if you want. But instea...
Speaking of Timothy Snyder, Literary Hub published the first chapter (the one on not obeying in advance) of his 2017 book On Tyranny. It begins:
Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead abo...
Allison Johnson, writing at The Verge:
Samsung’s Galaxy S-series is in its software era. Maybe the whole
smartphone industry is, too, save for a few phones with hinges
(Samsung’s included). But overall, we have exited the
hardware-driven innovation cycle and are firmly i...
You’re Allowed to Feel like Garbage. “If you are a remotely informed left-leaning person in America right now, why wouldn’t you be experiencing depression and anxiety?”
Writing from Ukraine on his way to the front in the country’s war with Russia, Timothy Snyder muses about the differences in life & freedom on the Ukrainian & Russian sides of the war’s front line.
Yet, on this, the Ukrainian side of the line, people lead completely...
Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s War on DEI Is Really a War on Civil Rights. “His attack on DEI isn’t about increasing merit or fighting wrongful discrimination; it is about reimposing hierarchies of race & gender (among other categories) onto American society.”
Qianer Liu and Jing Yang, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — MacRumors summary):
Apple has recently started working with Chinese internet and
e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to roll out artificial intelligence
features in China, according to one person with ...
