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Got a lot done over the weekend and today, heading into the distractions of iPhone event day tomorrow. Lots of little improvements in Micro.blog, plus a new Mac app update which I recorded a quick walk-through for.

How to be part of the rebooted blogosphere.

Love this post Irrational Dedication, via Duncan Davidson:

Every single thing we see, someone had to will it into existence against the entropy of the universe and the indifference of everyone else. That’s what the entire built world is.

An NFL Sunday has a way of ruining your shit, then putting it back together. Oftentimes you will spend your afternoon watching something that barely looks like football—the Dolphins, or the Giants, say—and it makes you consider a mission trip to North Sentinel Island just so...

1. The Only One Before you thought about work/life balance, professionalism, or online security, there was just one email. You were a simple, blissful idiot. 2. Personal You learned that only a baby fawn mixes all aspects of existence into a single stew of email chaos. So yo...

Office chairs and gaming chairs often tout lumbar support as a must-have feature. I spoke to some experts to see if it's as essential as claimed.

For three years, Luis Mendoza has periodically gone to the same construction site in downtown Ciudad Juárez to check on the progress of a 20-story tower that will serve as the home base of a vast state surveillance project.  On one visit in early May, Mendoza, a 37-year-old activist with the Juárez group El Frente […]

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Research into whether drugs like ayahuasca can mitigate the effects of traumatic brain injury is in its infancy. Pro athletes like Jordan Poyer are forging ahead anyway.

Phones with thinner designs are enjoying a moment. But while thin phones usually suffer poor battery life, batteries with silicon-carbon anodes are helping circumvent that notion.

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

With slight, useful changes like wireless charging and better processing, these noise-canceling buds remain at the top of the pile.

One month after sending the National Guard into Washington, D.C. saying they would fight crime there, President Trump is so pleased with the results that he is discussing how to put federal troops onto the streets of cities across the country — from Chicago to New Orleans. I...

President Donald Trump’s losses in court are suddenly piling up on many crucial fronts at once. Most of his tariffs were just ruled illegal, prompting him to explode in fury. An appeals court blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for depo...

SEASON 4 EPISODE 11: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Jayvee Vance has got to resign as Vice President. Relax; he won't. But you cannot BE Vice President of the United States if you're crazy enough to boast about repurposing the military as a Wa...

Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:

I know Apple has got used to making its share of Microsoft-scale screwups lately, but taking the two best UI frameworks ever made, UIKit and AppKit, and throwing them under the bus for something designed to build watch apps really does take the cake.

These frameworks were so good. Still are! I’ll never fully understand why there couldn’t have been a universal layer for iOS and macOS plus some existing AppKit and UIKit pieces for platform-specific features. Oh well, that ship sailed years ago now.

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My thanks to TextJam for sponsoring this past week at DF. TextJam just launched last week, it’s a remarkable “1.0” release — a multi-player text editor / word processor with a novel twist on how humans interact with AI. TextJam introduces the metaphors of “pen” mode for writ...

Stumbled on Freaky Tales while browsing HBO and it’s wild. 1980s Oakland, basketball, punk rock, animation… It is surprisingly violent but also amazing. 🍿

The 2025 Formula 1 season opened with a sense of optimism that we would see a close, exciting championship battle. Well, the championship battle is certainly close. It is also mind-numbingly boring.

There is tension, I suppose, in the sense that the two numbers next to each driver's name in the standings are quite close to each other, and if you can do rudimentary math, you can calculate the difference between those two numbers as it expands or contracts. But with the exception of one or, generously, two races, recaps about the championship fight can ignore the action on track entirely and simply report the updated point totals at the end of each weekend without missing anything of note.