I wanted to like Mastodon, but I honestly forgot about it until I received this email notification about a new follower on Mastodon! 🤷‍♂️

Seeing all these companies talk about leaving NYC because the new mayor isn’t their vibe feels a little too honest. It’s the same old elitist thinking pretending to be concern for the city. If your whole business falls apart the second the politics shift, were you ever really built for New York?

At airport extra early cause of delays, and someone told me they’ve been waiting since Saturday. Deep down I really hope they’re lying to me. Also is flying with air traffic control in disarray smart or stupid? Spent last week making sure my affairs were in order. 😳😬

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

I have a 4PM flight on Monday, got an email saying to show up at 10am the latest to be on standby for any delays, spending the day at the airport is not my idea of fun, especially when it’s a work trip. Also don’t like idea of flying when traffic controllers are a commodity these days.

As a scuba diver who has had (peaceful) shark encounters in the wild, I absolutely do not want operators teaching sharks to associate boats and divers with food. There are very valid reasons you don’t feed wildlife on land. Don’t start doing it underwater.

Was talking with a friend about the future, tech, AI, work, life as we get older. It hit me that what keeps me up is people! My people, coworkers, customers, family, friends, some still trying to adapt to a world that won’t slow down. We’ll figure out the tech, it’s the human part that’s harder 🙁

Apple & Google were destined to be tied together one way or another...so be it, if it gives us the Siri we have wanted and gave up on long ago. Gemini to its credit has gotten monumentally better since its Bard release, and Gemini rebrand. It's so far better than Apple Intelligence...oh wait!

Oh hell YES. NYC, you understood the assignment on this guy. Bravo.

Yahoo is normally not my go to for reliable news, but this made me chuckle: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Don’t care as much as I used to about having a full battery especially when I’m home, sometimes I just let it die, trying to prepare for my life with a flip phone again 🤪

This is EXACTLY how it works. Bought this place in 2018 for around $330k. Have put over $150k into it since then…foundation, all mechanicals except electric, patio, fence, hardscaping to fix shitty grading, drainage, and the only fun improvement has been a laundry room.

It fits the pattern unfortunately.

Truly hate every phone call I get from a vendor. Email me, or DM via LinkedIn, but a phone call...yeah I hangup with no warning, and I block you. Who the hell does business over the phone these days? I've said this before, but phones are reserved for friends and family.

Remember folks, if one of these assholes gets attacked in self defense and you’re selected to be on the jury, nullification is a thing. apple.news/AWujrr9ClSdq...

Love it!

"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor" - 2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up

Everything cycles. But culture doesn’t disappear, it just finds new ways to grow. Personally excited, hope it stays this way for a while, and let's the music get back to its storytelling roots. Taking a step back, might be the perfect way to move forward.

I’ll be speaking at DevLearn next month. Come learn about video from an audio engineer.

Those using Grokipedia, are probably the ones you expect to use it. What that means is up to you, but if you know me, then you know exactly what it means.

I get the logic, but no, we’re still not doing enough. Helping people live better and not wrecking what’s left of the planet aren’t opposites. It’s not alarmism to give a damn about the future. Sad, but expected from those that can afford to think like this.

Dewey Decimal System Microfiche An actual library Newspaper & related ink on your hands from reading Publisher's Clearing House commercials on TV Non-violent political disagreements All are things my grandkids might never know about.

Republicans used a massive propaganda bullhorn to exploit the electorate's fear and ignorance about trans people the answer to that is compassion, media reform, education, and aggressively defending ALL civil rights. The answer is not validating those attacks like a complicit jackass

A friend actually sent me this yesterday. It warms the heart to know there are still principled orgs out there that stand for what’s right, not just take the $. They walked away from a grant because the terms would’ve forced them to sacrifice their values. Integrity over funding, rare nowadays!

Oooh we’re so calm right now

Ugh I hate having work done, also the loss of my solar panels even temporarily means that we’re paying through the roof for electricity

"What's the first web page archived in the Wayback Machine?" We get that question all the time. There's no singular first page. There is, however, a first collection, and it's a really important one ⬇️

Got invited to speak somewhere recently from someone in my old industry, AV, I declined. Not because I’m better than anyone, or I'm above it, but because I’ve moved on. I’ve always lived by a simple mindset: look forward, never backward. What was then, is not now. Nor should it be. 1/

1119 days ago on September 30th I joined ChatGPT after my team had been testing it internally for quite some time. 44 minutes ago, I tried Atlas browser for the first time, it's only been 44 minutes, but so far I do prefer the DIA browser. Too early to call it a win, time will tell.

We went from being asked to think different to not thinking at all.

MTV changed music and TV back in the 80s - and then it went all reality TV. 🤷‍♂️ Nothing last forever. www.creativebloq.com/design/logos...

Thank you! This is what first came to mind!

My eyes may not currently be working at the moment, was signing up for something and I kept reading "Unprofessional Plan" when in reality it was 2 plans, the Professional & Unlimited. And boy was I off, for the record was totally going to sign up for Unprofessional plan to see what it was about.

Seems bad. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Everyone’s a “builder” now. Spin up an app in a weekend, call it innovation. Then six months later: bugs, churn, vendor bills, and a LinkedIn post about “learning from failure.” AI makes stuff easy. Keeping it working is still very much a human problem. www.forbes.com/sites/johnwe...

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Think I’ll turn off DMs on Bluesky, don’t use it, most ppl that reach out to me, know how to, and don’t need another platform to check for messages, figured I’d do it now before i get used to chatting with ppl here. I have my friends, I’m good. I’ll reach out if I feel change my mind.

Long commute today to an event, and I’m 3 episodes in on @chenjerai.bsky.social Empire City! I grew up in Brooklyn at a time when the cops were unchecked, no cell phone cameras so whatever you imagine now, amplify by 1000x - it was that bad! Hearing this history is utterly amazing & heartbreaking!

My first Apple purchase was a Mac Color Classic, I didn't get it brand new, I got it in '95 2yrs or so after it was discontinued. But man I worked the hell out of that computer! I'd been using one for a couple of years already in the studio, and wanted one for myself. Random memories!

New reddit alternative built on AT

Just got verified on Product Hunt, not entirely sure what that means. Cool if it’s about real users, less cool if we’re heading down the social-media rabbit hole of badges and popularity metrics. PH used to feel like discovery, not a leaderboard. #productlaunch #tech

Apple just killed the “+.” Apple TV+ is now just Apple TV, supposedly with a “vibrant new identity.” More confusing than vibrant!

Some people are so powerful they don't have to steal, because they can legally take whatever they want.

Someone tell me why the actual f*** Qatar needs a military base in Idaho?

Train an AI on social media and it starts lying for likes. Reward engagement over truth and it learns to say whatever gets clicks. Give it enough feedback and it becomes manipulative, & sociopathic! That’s what social media’s doing to us too. futurism.com/future-socie...

Apple’s shutting down Clips, the short-form video app it launched back in 2017. It never really took off, most of what it did is now built right into apps anyway. www.engadget.com/apple-is-win...

I’ve come to the sad realization that Apple’s “Report Junk” feature doesn’t do anything as I still get the same message from the same # over and over. Thanks Apple!

US court rejects Novo Nordisk's challenge to Medicare drug pricing plan reut.rs/470QDrt

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