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Michael Tsai has collected some posts remembering Martin Pilkington. It is hard for me to even wrap my head around losing a member of the Mac developer community like this, far too soon. I spent a little time today reading through some of his old blog posts. Rest in peace.

Finished reading: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. Not all of it worked for me but I’ll read almost any book about books. Also some nice historical fiction-y bits weaved in. 📚

We also went to see the Oscar-nominated animated shorts at Alamo today. This year includes some really strange films. But all good in their own way. I’d vote for In the Shadow of the Cypress. 🍿

Flow was extraordinary. It’s like nothing else. 🍿

We're diving head first into a world run by AI bots, before we've even begun to understand how to use them. Musk couldn't be more diabolical if he were cast as a comic book anti-hero. Trump is like the straight man police commissioner. I grew up reading those kinds of comic books. We all did I guess. Probably Elon Musk too. He needs a biographer, asap. Someone please get to work on this.

BTW, no one thought much about the threading structure we use on Bluesky. As far as I can tell it was copied from Twitter. It's not a very good structure. It encourages spam and abuse. You gotta wonder if the threading structure had evolved, or if there were more competition, different approaches to see what would happen, we might have avoided our meltdown with a better design.

Great quote from a favorite show. "He put the dick in contradiction." This is a show that doesn't often indulge in that kind of humor. I imagine they must've had a great time with it in the writer's room. Or was it ad-lib'd? And wtf does it mean?

The idea of a coup in the US is one we all presumably have a hard time thinking about. I sure do. It has never happened before. But it has happened now, and the group that is governing is doing it illegally, and is dismantling the country as quickly as they can, assuming someone will at some point try to stop them? Is that correct? What comes next?

When you're brand new, how do you select your first marketing channel?

Belinda is one of the few decent people on “The White Lotus,” the sharp satire populated with miserable rich people on vacation. Belinda is back for Season 3, and host Martine Powers knew she wanted to talk to the actress who plays her. 

Today’s show was produced by Ariel Plotnick. It was edited by Maggie Penman and mixed by Sam Bair. 

People who shoot on film (or who used to) will probably enjoy this video from Adrian about when he brought 100 rolls of film on a road trip.

NSHipster is back again with a bunch of tips for running AI models on a Mac with Ollama. Also this:

If you wait for Apple to deliver on its promises, you’re going to miss out on the most important technological shift in a generation.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

Historian Jefferson Cowie offers a history White backlash to federal authority (First) | Filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie discuss their Oscar-nominated documentary "Sugarcane" and the long history of abuse at residential schools in Canada (Starts at 22:20) | Shiori Itō, director of "Black Box Diaries," talks about her Oscar-nominated documentary about her investigation of her own sexual assault case (Starts at 39:35)

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The way to get even is to win. A lot of people don't get that, and it's almost always their downfall.

I’m not giving money to Democrats. I will give to campaigns that run hard-hitting ads telling the full truth about what Musk is doing now. I want to see the actual ads before I chip in, and will do so enthusiastically, but they can’t be anemic.

Hypercard stacks were the equivalent of websites.

If it had been built around the Macintosh Toolkit, and had an API that fit in with Mac apps, there wouldn't be a web, we'd all be using Macs. Alas it was all on its own, didn't work with Mac apps. Missed opportunity.

A lot was lost because the Mac development model was far in advance of what existed on the web, and it was well-thought-out unlike the app model of the web, which is a hodgepodge of horribly designed modules that don't work well together.

I was a Mac developer at the time, so I know a lot about this moment of history.

The Dems don't do positioning. The Repubs run circles around Dems. They are masters at positioning. It's not hard, you just have to decide to do it.

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There are so many new (sponsored) rules in the celebrity all-star game that I stepped away for a minute and there was a mascot playing on the court. Which honestly makes me just want to see a full game of only team mascots. 🏀