Photography-wise I’ve been fairly unmotivated recently: no posting, no development, no scanning and only taking few photos. But today was finally a good day again: I spent the whole day outside in the sun with the family and friends while shooting two rolls of Foma 100 with my Lomo LC-A.
Smartphones and Computers Are Now Exempt From Trump’s Latest Tariffs
cnn.com/2025/04/12/tech/trump-electronics-china-tariffs/index.html
Auzinea Bacon, CNN:
Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from
President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to a US
Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday.
Smartphones, computer monitors and various electronic parts are
among...
Anker, a Chinese Company, Has Already Started Raising Its Prices on Amazon
reuters.com/technology/chinese-electronics-company-anker-starts-raising-prices-amazon-2025-04-11/
Reuters:
China’s Anker, one of Amazon’s largest sellers offering products
from power banks to phone cases, has raised prices on a fifth of
its products on the U.S. platform since Thursday, in a sign that
tariffs on Chinese goods are being passed on to U.S. shoppers.
Som...
European Travel to the U.S. Plummets
Financial Times reporter John Burn-Murdoch has a summary on Bluesky of his co-bylined report for the Financial Times:
Visitors from western Europe who stayed at least one night in the
US fell by 17 per cent in March from a year ago, according to the
International Trade A...
Chinese Finance Ministry Calls Trump’s Tariff Hikes ‘A Joke in the History of World Economics’
reuters.com/world/china/china-increase-tariffs-us-goods-125-up-84-finance-ministry-says-2025-04-11/
Reuters:
“The U.S. side’s imposition of excessively high tariffs on China
seriously violates international economic and trade rules, runs
counter to basic economic principles and common sense, and is
simply an act of unilateral bullying and coercion,” China’s
Finance Min...
Anachronym Challenge
Radiolab
• Martha Weiss, Josh Rosenthal, Isabel Rosenthal, Harrison Smith, Akito Kawahara, Sarry Nagai, Jo Nagai, Takeru Inagaki, Shusei, Masato Ono
Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow
A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate a famous study of hers. We covered that original study on Radiolab more than a decade ago in an episode called Goo and You – check it out here – and i...
📄 Film Development Timer
Today I’m making public my little film development web app: https://dt.danielpietzsch.com.
634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees
Pre-show:
Technology Connections on dishwashers
Maestral
How to excise Dropbox
Brave
Firefox
Kagi
Orion
Arc
Palm Pre
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner:
Vo...
Wayne Ma at The Information: ‘How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover’
theinformation.com/articles/apple-fumbled-siris-ai-makeover?rc=jfy0lk
Blockbuster report by Wayne Ma for The Information (paywalled and pricey, alas):
But an equally important factor was the conflicting personalities
within Apple, according to multiple people who worked in the AI
and software engineering groups. More than half a dozen form...
The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing. “Trump’s desire to dominate others...
The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing. “Trump’s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration.”
Busy Day at the Airport
Cy Kuckenbaker compressed five hours of landing planes into 30 seconds of video. I love this. A great example of time merge media. (via colossal, which has been killing it lately)
[This is a vintage post originally from Dec 2012.]
Tags: Cy Kuckenbaker · timeless posts · video
‘American Disruption’
Ben Thompson:
The problem with these tariffs is that their scale and
indiscriminate nature will have the effect of destroying demand
and destroying the capability to develop alternative supply. I
suppose if the only goal is to hurt China then shooting yourself
in the foo...
Trump, Supposedly, Thinks the U.S. Has the ‘Resources’ Needed to Make iPhones
9to5mac.com/2025/04/08/trump-thinks-the-us-has-the-resources-needed-to-make-iphones/
Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac:
Ahead of that, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said
today that Trump firmly believes that Apple can move iPhone
manufacturing to the United States. In response to a question
from Maggie Haberman of The New York Times about ...
All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the...
All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the fact is that goods imported from practically every country in the world are taxed at 10% and Chinese goods at 125%. These damaging tariffs are all Trump’s doing. Nothing is “fixed”.
Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The...
Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.”
What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard...
What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard to focus on the things in front of me, that I need to do. It’s hard to focus on the news, because it’s not just one thing, it’s a hundred things, news like fire ants…”
★ WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview
Jen Simmons, writing on the WebKit blog, “Better Typography With text-wrap pretty”:
For over 30 years, the web had only one technique for determining
where to wrap text.
The browser starts with the first line of text, and lays out each
word or syllable, one after anothe...
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its...
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union.”
If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories...
If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories as told by survivors to their grandchildren. “Our generation is the last to ever hear our grandparents’ stories firsthand, in the same room, over the course of decades, directly from them.”