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Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it.

I'm using EMX more than Bluesky, consciously -- realizing it was a mistake to move my social web act over there. There's no discourse to keep me there so I'm giving it less of my bandwidth. I tried an experiment today, Paul Graham, a big tech influencer on EMX said all the ...

It's really cool we get another NBA Finals game tonight. I'm rehearsing what it feels like to be a fan of the Eastern Conference Champion NY Knicks. It still hasn't even slightly sunk in yet.

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: But on Friday morning, a random productivity app called Cириус broke into the top three. […] The reality seems to be that the app is a Russian banking app disguised as a Pomodoro timer. Activity on Telegram this week points to the app actually being a client for Russian financial institution VTB […]⌥ Permalink

Yours truly, last August:

I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels more like something Perplexity would be seeding than one that Apple executives would be leaking.

Perplexity is still occasionally in the news (often not in good ways), but it seems to me they’ve slipped into the “afterthought” tier of AI startups — which is exactly why they started leaning into clownish stunts last year. Everyone who previously suggested Apple should — or even might — buy them has gone silent.

Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter Groeneveld On occasion I’ve mentioned here that one way of ensuring longevity of this blog is to publish it as one or more books with a proper ISBN, and have the national library store their two obligated copies. We did this in […]

The SpaceX cap table, what it is worth, and what happens next. On June 12, a great many people become extraordinarily wealthy. Not one of them can sell a share until December — with one exception: up to five percent of the IPO shares are reserved for employees and executive-selected participants at the $135 offering …

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, New York Times: Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay bare for the first time these tactics to hook young users. […]⌥ Permalink

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired: Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones, according to a WIRED analysis of the company’s software. […] Three AI models powering NameTag have already been deployed from Meta’s servers and now reside on its customers’ phones, according to […]⌥ Permalink

Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News: And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and torched his ow...

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose
Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm)
Special Guest(s): For sure
Price: $45

The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you should come. You’ll even enjoy the prelude, mingling with fellow DF readers and listeners.

Adam Engst, TidBits: If you are still using Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac, it will stop working fully on 13 July 2026. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook will enter “reduced functionality mode” — a euphemism meaning you can view and print documents but cannot edit, save, or create new ones. Microsoft’s documentation doesn’t clarify what […]⌥ Permalink

All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider, Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis: “A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.” It’s a great movie, and feels apt AF at the moment. Here’s the original segment on 60 Minutes, which ran an entire half hour.

What’s going on today is like if — instead of getting shady, threatening, and litigious — the tobacco companies had just purchased CBS, purged the staff at 60 Minutes, and hired a bunch of pro-cigarette stooges to replace them.

Joe Rossignol: Apple’s annual developers conference WWDC returns for 2026 next week, and the company has teased the event with a new “All systems glow” tagline. Clarko: “We’re keeping Liquid Glass, you weiners” Joe Rossignol: Apple has shared a wallpaper, playlist, and a “Get Ready” video ahead of the event. Basic Apple Guy: I’ve been […]

Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill (tweet): Xogot was born as a native user interface shell on top of the Godot game engine for iPad devices, and later iPhone devices. […] Because Xogot’s user interface was written in SwiftUI, and because we had already committed to Apple’s design system, bringing Xogot to macOS felt like […]

Keren R. Bell: This is a call to join the topic-of-the-month for the Swift Blog Carnival! […] What do you LOVE about SwiftUI? What boggles your mind about it? David Bureš: .sheet is STILL not animatable (a feature since the first OSX release) […] Toolbar item placement is completely broken. […] .searchable is a complete […]

Daniel Andrews: If that’s true, here’s what I’m hoping for: fix Liquid Glass on the Mac where it’s genuinely bad. Not a cosmetic tweak, a real rethink of the parts that trade usability for novelty. Bring back some intentionality to the design. Focus on human interaction, stability and speed as primary goals, not footnotes in […]

Mike Bombich: The two numbers at the end of that path are the file and folder count for this folder. That “Base.lproj” folder has no files in it, but 1 million subfolders. That’s absolutely bonkers! That really can’t be sane. The app, MenuClock (not the real name), looks like it’s just a simple digital clock, […]

Christian Inkster (Hacker News): With the release of macOS Lion, Apple introduced Mission Control, its new take on virtual desktops that inexplicably restricted them to a horizontal line only. I remember thinking at first that I just hadn’t seen the setting somewhere, Apple wouldn’t just completely change how I used my computer right? right? […] […]

Rene Zelaya (Hacker News): In April, Apple rejected an update to my Mac dictation app, WhisperPad, under Guideline 2.4.5. Their position was that I was using the accessibility API in a way that wasn’t an accessibility use. The app exists because I have a hand injury. Apple had approved earlier versions doing the same thing. […]