I dunno about this new Bluesky logo. It looks like it’s got a big ol’ donkadonk booty.

I think about this a lot.

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

The East Wing of the White House was built in the 1940s and was arguably already a monstrous addition to a beautiful historic building. You can see from the demolition work it is made of steel and concrete.

It's wild how much it feels like people are desperate to memory hole this entire phenomenon, to me. How viciously everyone who pointed out the emperor had no clothes were criticized. How content they all seem to be to let the biggest wealth transfer of the decade just fade out w/o REAL examination.

Hague's use of "safe spaces" and "cancel culture" here is sloppy. He needs to be clear about what he means. If all he's saying is students should expect to hear challenging ideas, then fine. But this could just as easily mean nowhere will be safe at Oxford and anyone who objects will be pushed.

Books and reading are fetishised over other forms of culture because they take a little more effort to consume and have become a class signifier.

I'm looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I'm a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

Brexit. Boris Johnson. And now Reform. British voters are like moths to a flame.

D. Just for India. But I’ll take the lamingtons too.

I wonder how flat-earthers/anti-vaxers would react if they discovered scientists actually believe time speeds up and slows down, depending on our relative speed.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Love that feeling when you discover someone you used to like following on Twitter here on Bluesky. Feels like slowly putting the world back together, one piece at a time.

Amazing The Economist could write this whole piece and not mention COVID once, while still finding the time to harumph about social media: www.economist.com/science-and-...

No lie detected. This new utility app icons objectively suck. How did Apple arrive here? daringfireball.net/2025/08/maco...

It sucks this is happening to Lexi Love. Hope she comes out of it Lexier than ever. www.out.com/news/rupauls...

People dismissing the value of the AI because there is a stock market bubble right now might want to reflect on the dotcom bubble in 2000, where it turned out that the Internet was a fad and websites were pointless. These days no one uses the Internet and Amazon is a distant memory.

Ok. I was wrong about GPT5. It’s actually pretty amazing for vibe coding, and much more up to date on Apple’s frameworks that Claude Sonnet. A bit slow, but worth the wait.

Steve Jobs didn't create great products by trusting his gut. He did it by hiring the best experts and only approving the ideas they fought hardest for.

This hasn't been my experience at all. I got compile errors on GPT-5 immediately. I guess I'm less interested in AI designing UI for me, because I'm a designer and I prefer to hand-code that bit. For now, I'm sticking with Claude 4 Sonnet 9to5mac.com/2025/08/12/v...

I remember reading about AI research decades ago, when the theory was that consciousness was an emergent property of complex neural networks. Today people insist AIs are *not* conscious. My question is, scientifically speaking, how do you know? What test proves you are, while AIs are not? I'll wait.

Laura Dern. I like Laura Dern. (But even she couldn’t save The Last Jedi.)

This is not OK. And it’s not what the Labour Party is supposed to be for.

iPadOS 26 beta 5 has change how tool bars interact with the tab bar in the NavigationSplitView, and now my whole weekend will be devoted to reworking the iPad navigation of my app.

In the CultCast this week, @dgriffinjones.bsky.social discussed lanyards potentially coming to iPhone (via a case), and Apple's history with lanyards. Here, from my extensive iPod collection, is the original iPod shuffle and nano with lanyards.

I can't stop looking at this Enterprise bridge set. Its design so perfectly fits between the TOS and TNG aesthetics. I love it. gizmodo.com/star-trek-ph...

These people can only conceive of win-lose situations, and so they forgo win-win arrangements in favor of lose-lose arrangements

Perhaps the most misunderstood song lyrics in history. This song is not about hills and running.

@gruber.foo Someone in Apple still supports customizability. Check out .sidebarAdaptable in iPadOS. It’s fully user-customisable including dragging items to the tab bar at the top. Very much like Mac OS X toolbars.

@gruber.foo “Alan Dye is a graphic designer for fashion brands, not a UI designer” is a kind of agism. It presupposes we speciate at the age of 20 and any subsequent switch in direction is invalid. He has more UI experience than most 30-something UI specialists.

We need Lisa Rinna to investigate www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Today I learned that there is a statue of a blue horse called Blucifer by Denver airport. It’s 32 foot tall with glowing red eyes and anyway here it is

I love doing hate-reads. I listened to the complete Sherlock Holmes audio book - all 70+ hours of it, just to confirm what I suspected. It’s trash.

I love old cereal ads

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

It's like the early days of search engines and nefarious SEO exploits all over again. www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/i...

A Chuck E. Cheese mascot was arrested in Tallahassee, Florida, for credit card fraud while still wearing the full costume.

“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.” —Andry José Hernandez Romero

Saying "this isn't the female gaze, it's the male gaze" is really just swapping one form of gender essentialism for another. This is not the own you think it is.

Cool

imo there's a lot of over-thinking on this topic. This is the "gaze" of anyone who likes muscles. Doesn't need to be gendered one way or the other.

All of this. And especially Genevieve O’Reilly for Mon Mothma and Stellan Skarsgård for Luthen. Amazing performances. gizmodo.com/a-list-of-ot...

Funny that someone so rich and powerful as Kalanick is not immune to ChatGPT’s basic “that’s a great question” flattery.

If Bluesky added accurate automatically generated alt text, I actually think a lot of people on this platform would be disappointed.

The layering of real locations with matts looks amazing, but it becomes a problem when the locations are so recognisable. I kept thinking "Oh, there's the Barbican! Isn't that the Guildhall? Wait, that's Monserrat!" It takes you out of the action. gizmodo.com/this-vfx-bre...