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"Who me?" asks the Democrat. Yes, you.

BTW isn't it amazing that when you say something counter to Democratic dogma, their first impulse is to try to destroy you personally? "Who me?" asks the Democrat. Yes, you.

Having a Democrat rise from the ashes of metoo is just the right thing to say to voters who were rebelling against wokeness. Cuomo was never tried or convicted of any crime, or voted out of office by the state assembly or senate in Albany, or the people of the state of New Y...

You'll know who the next leader of the Democratic Party is because they will be campaigning against the Democratic Party but talking about things that actually happened rather than the hallucinations the Trumpites indulge in.

Most rank and file engineers within Apple do not believe that feature existed in an even vaguely functional state a year ago, and the first any of them ever heard of it was when they watched the keynote with the rest of us on the first day of WWDC last year.

Dan Moren, writing this week at Six Colors:

But you’ve heard about all of that, I’m sure, so we’re not going to rehash it. Instead, let’s get personal: I’m picking out, in my opinion, the best and worst new features of each of Apple’s platforms. To be clear, these are my completely scientific and totally well-reasoned expert opinions on the features that were announced, not just some off-the-cuff reactions less than a day later.

Fun episode of Tested with Adam Savage and Norman Chan. The first segment goes deep on what’s new in VisionOS 26. Apple is ignoring the jokes about the platform’s relative obscurity and has obviously been heads-down on building the platform out and up. VisionOS 26 is a huge ...

MG Siegler:

The underlying message that they’re trying to convey in all these interviews is clear: calm down, this isn’t a big deal, you guys are being a little crazy. And that, in turn, aims to undercut all the reporting about the turmoil within Apple — for years at this point — that has led to the situation with Siri. Sorry, the situation which they’re implying is not a situation. Though, I don’t know, normally when a company shakes up an entire team, that tends to suggest some sort of situation. That, of course, is never mentioned. Nor would you expect Apple — of all companies — to talk openly and candidly about internal challenges. But that just adds to this general wafting smell in the air.

The smell of bullshit.

Jason Snell:

After last year, Apple could’ve been forgiven for wanting to soft-pedal this year’s Apple Intelligence announcements and regroup. It didn’t do that, nor did it double down on last year. Instead, it’s chosen a middle ground — a bit safe and familiar but also a place where Apple can feel a bit more like itself. In the long run, it needs to get this right. In the short term, maybe it should focus on meeting its users where they are, rather than pretending to be something it’s not.

Agree with Snell’s take completely, I do.

Yesterday I posted a link to my political disclaimer from 2018. Also listened to a podcast interview with Senator Gallego of Arizona who says, correctly that the Democrats have work to do with men. It's true, speaking as a man who has been voting solid Democratic since Kerry...

Today I'm going to teach WordLand how to be a linkblog. Before doing that I tried to figure out what a linkblog is. I have been using various homebrew linkblogging tools which I have shared with others, but none of them became popular products. I wrote a summary to help guide the development work I have planned.

I was lucky to grow up in NYC, and had to commute from Queens to the Bronx every day to go to school. Some days I took the Q44 bus over the Whitestone Bridge, and other days I took the Q17 to the 7 train through Manhattan, and then the 4 or D trains up to 205th St in the Bron...

I was wondering if Saturday's military parade in Washington was going to be the rollout of the Trump junta, and if that meant the president would appear in military garb, perhaps subdued so next year's parade they can add more features. So I asked ChatGPT to help. President...

Stephen Hackett has a list of the Intel Macs that MacOS 26 Tahoe supports, and the ones they’re dropping support for this year. Apple has gone through three CPU architecture transitions in the Mac’s history: 68K to PowerPC starting in 1994 PowerPC to Intel starting in 20...

Tim Cook and Apple are all about Formula 1 these days. As a lead-in to the WWDC keynote, Apple played a short clip of its leading software executive, Craig Federighi, racing an F1 car on top of Apple Park. It was a nod to the new F1 movie coming to Apple TV. And it might hint at something even bigger.  Pals in the motorsport business are hinting at live F1 …

I needed an updated bio for a conference in October.

Using soldiers as a political prop. Trump gave a political speech, lying about protests in front of a group of people dressed as American soldiers. They all appeared to be enjoying the president’s tough talk about the role he wants the military to play in policing the cities. MSNBC should not broadcast this.

I'm trying to make a linkblog with a WordPress RSS feed.

Yesterday I introduced a new feed for great art, 24 times a day. Every hour on the hour.

Today, a version of that feed provides one work of art each day, at midnight, Eastern.

• art.feediverse.org
• artdaily.feediverse.org

Why I did this feed. I'm crafting a new information product, and I want to include a random work of art but not every hour, once a day is enough. I thought it was worth a detour to make the feed that I wanted.

The first work of art in the feed on its inaugural issue was The Countess from Hans Holbein the Younger, 1526. It was chosen at random from a collection of 42,473 works of art.

Would one of the browser vendors work with me on doing something nice with displaying feeds in XML form? I don't support obfuscating what a feed is, that just adds confusion. When I lift the hood of a car I want to see an engine not a drawing of something that sort of looks like a car, but not really, and looks nothing like an engine.