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I have a Google Alerts query for my own name, just to see if any journalism outlets mention me. When it happens, it's often to give me credit for co-creating an app called iPodder, which they say was where podcasting started. None of that is true. But that's what journalism ...
Apple’s Other ‘F1 The Movie’ In-App Promotions
macrumors.com/2025/06/27/f1-the-movie-now-playing-in-theaters/
Joe Rossignol:
The company has promoted its Brad Pitt racing film with
advertisements across at least six iPhone apps leading up to
today’s wide release, including the App Store, Apple Wallet,
Apple Sports, Apple Podcasts, iTunes Store, and of course the
Apple TV app.
...
‘Stupid-Americans Are the New Irish-Americans, Trump Is Their JFK’
reddit.com/r/thebulwark/comments/1ljbvtw/hottest_take_stupidamericans_are_the_new/
Banger of a post by “tarltontarlton” on Reddit:
That same process is happening now with stupid people. They’re
transcending their individual limitations, finding each other and
becoming out-and-proud Stupid-Americans. [...]
How individual stupid Americans are becoming t...
RFK Jr.’s CDC Panel Ditches Some Flu Shots Based on Anti-Vaccine Junk Data
Beth Mole, reporting for Ars Technica:
The vaccine panel hand-selected by health secretary and
anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted
overwhelmingly to drop federal recommendations for seasonal flu
shots that contain the ethyl-mercury containing pr...
BTW, I think the right way to read Scripting News is getting the nightly email. That's the pulse. I jot stuff down during the day, mostly in the morning, and later add links and finish stuff up. The scripting.com feed is updated in realtime. So you may get many versions of an...
I'm working my way through The Bear, and it's great because you remember that you love all these characters and you can immediately start living the ongoing drama of their lives. The scene they paint is intriguing. I feel like a cat perched on a window watching everyone doing their daily stuff. Looking forward to going back to the beginning and starting over.
Glossary: Tiny Little Textbox.
★ More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad
Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, *to get users to believe that it’s private*.
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Mac Finder Redesign? Snooze
512 Pixels: If you missed my previous post on the topic, the first version of Tahoe had the dark blue on the right side of the Finder icon, which was criminal. Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years …
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More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad
This is a funny gag from Claude Zeins, but if you think about it, it shows just how destructive Apple’s decision was to send a push notification from the Wallet app promoting F1 The Movie.
It’s a fact that no company can inject an ad into your physical wallet. It just can’t...
Krugman doesn’t understand what’s coming for NYC. And doesn’t understand the leadership Cuomo uniquely provided at the height of Covid. It’s pretty likely what’s starting in NYC will be worse than Covid or 9-11. Funny thing is Krugman did get it, a few weeks ago when the crisis in Los Angeles was peaking. He wrote a piece that was terrified, and realistic. The National Guard had been nationalized. Marines were invading California. But now that Calif hasn't been in the news, it's easy to swing back. I bet if the election had happened during the worst of it, Cuomo would've won.
I, like a lot of other people, assumed that Americans would be terrible at authoritarianism. Shows we have a lot to learn. Americans are pretty good at it it turns out.
Apple Wallet Sends Push Notification Ad Pushing ‘F1 The Movie’
techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-by-apple-wallet-ad-pushing-f1-movie/
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch Tuesday:
Apple customers aren’t thrilled they’re getting an ad from the
Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant’s original film “F1 the
Movie.” Across social media, iPhone owners are
complaining that their Wallet app sent out a push n...
Masked secret police is pure terrorism. We should ask NYPD what we have to do to protect ourselves from them, and then do it.
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Bernie Sanders asks what the Democrats should learn from Mr. Z's victory in the NYC primary this week. Here's what I say. Forget about ever rising from the ashes of what remains of the party. Right now, the issue is how to defend the city from the coming war with the US government. They're already holding the current mayor hostage. This will be worse than 9-11 and Covid. We have no leadership. We're totally fucked, what the Democratic Party does or doesn't do, at this point, simply doesn't matter.
Denis Villeneuve to Direct Next James Bond Film
deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm-studios-1236442917/
Good pick. I feel great about this.