👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

I tried to clear up the confusion about the differences between the one-time-purchase versions of Creator Studio apps and the subscription ones. Basically, I wrote the support document that Apple didn't. eshumarneedi.com/2026/01/30/s...

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Cute headline, it’s completely incorrect.

this is hell for Carlos Alcaraz enjoyers

The "new" Apple Creator Studio-ified Pixelmator Pro has a copyright label from 2025.

That Limu Emu will be the end of me, I swear.

OpenAI plans commercialization to compete with company whose entire ethos is de-commercialization. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

News Analysis: After Tim Cook's 'Melania' Gambit, Apple Reports Record Profits The politically savvy chief executive proves maneuvering in Washington is the only way to survive under the Trump administration. By Tripp Mickle, The New York Times

BREAKING NEWS: Apple made money. More at 11.

Hysterical.

I promise I'll stop with the mildly sentimental posts, but I wrote about corporations, Apple, and Tim Cook one more time to get to the heart of a question I've been receiving: Why do I still buy Apple products? Certainly not to support the corporation. eshumarneedi.com/2026/01/28/a...

"Don't fuck my disease in the face, Jimmy."

Regression to the mean.

Two great pieces of software dropped this week for the Bluesky network: - Skyscraper on iOS and iPadOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/skyscra… Skyscraper for Bluesky - Aeronaut on macOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/aeronau… Both are high-quality, native clients. Well worth $25 a year total.

Alan Dye is out and Sebastiaan de With is in. All we need is Tim Cook to get the boot and we'll be back in business. Nature is healing, indeed.

Pretty good news: AI Overviews on Google will now use Gemini 3 (Flash, I'm presuming). I hope and think this will provide a significant boost in accuracy. www.theverge.com/news/868497/...

holy shit lmao theintercept.com/2026/01/27/a...

One of the best opportunities for free Claude publicity (especially to its nerd-oriented programmer audience) and Anthropic had to shut it down. "Moltbot" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Everything is going well so far. Hashtag computers.

bro, it is 42 degrees out there this is excessive

Does this Altman fellow not know that we can tell what an AI-generated image looks like? Does he think we're stupid? (He says people love looking at AI-generated images, but as soon as they're told they're AI-generated, they begin to hate them.)

Sam Altman is just Elon Musk but with a 75% higher IQ.

These people all look excited to be there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpxv-...

The Atlantic reports Bovino and Noem are about to be out at DHS. Not much of a relief, but it's news. www.theatlantic.com/politics/...

Apple needs to Precision Find a CEO who doesn't hang out with rapists.

Yes, this is clearly all very good for Apple's business. It's actually what you'd call a "business necessity," that is, Apple would be bankrupt if its CEO didn't pose in photos with rapists. Clearly that is the sole purpose of Cook's visit. Rapists are good business. www.theverge.com/news/867567/...

It is pretty funny seeing so many people buying new M4 Mac minis to run Clawdbot on, knowing it piggy-backs off of a Claude/ChatGPT subscription. Do you guys not have a spare Raspberry Pi or something to run it on? (I'm investigating running itself, it looks so cool.)

Has Tim Cook posted his review of MELANIA on Letterboxd yet

It has become increasingly obvious to me that "leftists" — who I think no longer deserve such a name — do not understand how majorities in the United States Congress work.

what could an "AI-driven overhaul of the Calendar app" possibly entail

From everything I've seen on the ground, I feel this is a *slight* exaggeration. (Forecast for snow in New York, via Apple Weather.)

Silicon Valley has completely lost the plot. There's no recovering the tech industry from this lack-of-humanity crisis. (Dyett is an OpenAI exec.)

I fail to understand how Tim Cook going to the movies with Donald Trump benefits Apple in any way.

This is appalling. I can say with certainty that Steve Jobs would be ashamed of Tim Cook at this terrible moment, one of many these days, and he has sullied the last year of his tenure and the Apple brand by his craven need to please shareholders over holding onto some basic values of decency.

I will say, I think the commentary on Threads and Bluesky has been significantly higher quality and newsworthy than X today. That's unusual and I'm here for it.

Shameless, feckless bastards.

How have we not figured out high-res, low-latency broadcast TV yet? YouTube TV's ESPN feed is in near real-time but looks terrible. ESPN's native feed, meanwhile, looks nice but is delayed by two minutes.

I’ve been trying to process today’s events all afternoon. I’m still not at a point where I can adequately express all of my feelings, but I have some. And, naturally, I wrote about them. I encourage you to do so, too — whether it be online, in a journal, or wherever else.

What a sick day for this republic.

There are no words to describe the brutality of this regime. This is now the second murder purported by ICE terrorists in broad daylight with the cameras on. Imagine what they’re doing when the cameras aren’t rolling. This is petrifying.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

@getskyscraper.com Great work, this really is the best Bluesky client on iOS yet! Two suggestions: 1. Please let us remove the avatar rings. 2. The appearance of threads is a bit confusing. I suggest extending the line to the reply or removing the background of the first post. (Screenshot.)

Perhaps I have bad ears (unlikely) but I literally cannot tell the difference between the remastered A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and the old version.

Why would one ever possibly want to do this www.engadget.com/ai/google-ph...

The Minnesota Star Tribune has been doing some important reporting lately, on the ground in war-torn occupied Minneapolis. I encourage you to read their work — it’s even included in your Apple News+ subscription, if you happen to be a subscriber.

Utterly embarrassing that Apple's default Stocks app now pulls AI-generated news stories from Apple News and recommends them under companies' pages.

To all of my fellow Apple Weather Service users, please note that Apple Weather is quite bad at predicting precipitation totals, whether it be snow, rain, or freezing rain. These days, it’s good enough at predicting *when* it will precipitate and the intensity, but the totals are way off.

Can someone at Anthropic please stop the Mac app from collapsing the sidebar every time it's launched? It's incredibly annoying.