I've tracked #Apple for nearly 50 years: How a garage rebel became a multitrillion-dollar empire zdnet.com/article/appl... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Apple is turning 50, but it seems oddly reluctant to credit its founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

No Kings, Culver City, CA, March 28, 2026 photos.app.goo.gl/pYjP7zK2bjju...

Q: Should religious AI chatbots be treated differently from all others? A: no, but probably MY "no" is not the "no" you are thinking about Full answer here, for #catholics and everybody else: mfioretti.substack.com/p/should-rel... #religion #artificialintelligence

Computer use /Browser use is the next big thing for AI - Basically AI that does stuff for you in your browser. The problem is that until today, no one had a full open source version, with full open source training data to see how it all works. venturebeat.com/data/ai2-rel...

"Theocracy in Iran did not appear suddenly as if by magic. ... It’s a story worth telling, even at a cursory level, given the death and destruction taking place in Iran today." AUDIO version. www.facebook.com/reel/1643994...

"Theocracy in Iran did not appear suddenly as if by magic. ... It’s a story worth telling, even at a cursory level, given the death and destruction taking place in Iran today." reselbob.substack.com/p/a-pebble-i...

Just as Krupp provided the hardware that made the death and destruction of World War I possible, so too do a handful of weapons manufacturers that make the weapons used in the current military action in Iran. These companies will make money as others suffer. reselbob.substack.com/p/game-of-gu...

Remember: If voting didn’t matter, they wouldn’t work so hard to ensure that you can’t -- or don't.

From $10 Tickets to $6,000 Seats: How Concerts Got So Damn Expensive davidmccarter.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/f...

"The question, then, is not whether human beings are capable of cruelty—we apparently are—but whether we can build systems that make cruel behavior in law enforcement rarer, riskier, and less acceptable. The answer is, we can." reselbob.substack.com/p/law-enforc...

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build: thenewstack.io/red-hat-ente... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social Red Hat enters the cloud-native developer desktop market with the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop. While not a Linux desktop, it can run on Linux.

RIP, Mr. Jackson. youtu.be/zuZV7ES4VE8

Excellent tool for those concerned about election integrity and well-being in the United States: www.vote.org

Slow Wi-Fi? I found 10 proven ways to fix your internet this weekend (most are free) zdnet.com/home-and-off... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social How to speed up your home/small-office #WiFi.

OK, so Anthropic's #AI built a C compiler. That doesn't impress me much theregister.com/2026/02/13/a... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social <Yawn> I can copy and paste open-source code without understanding what I'm doing and do a bad job of it, too, but no one's praising me to high heaven.

I am presently reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography. The events in South Africa in the late 1940s and early 1950s are astoundingly similar to what is happening in the USA today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Wa...

"2025 was a very difficult year for me. The political climate was overwhelming. I was filled with fear, rage, and an ongoing sense of powerlessness. I knew I had to make a change... ... I came to understand that the only reliable change I could make immediately was within myself."

Good news! pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/09/s...

What I have come to understand is that all of us suffer miseries, even those intent on doing me harm. I do not need to excuse or justify their transgressions, but extending compassion to others helps alleviate the misery within myself.

Don't use phones. Get small sports cameras (gopro clone, etc) you can mount underneath a hat or other article of clothing www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Friday, January 26, 2026, Culver City Center: photos.app.goo.gl/F8eSNejkUD1a...

Physical AI is not Yet Another Buzzword. The premise is that AI technologies should incorporate bodily awareness, including an object’s sense of space, motion, and interactions. That may sound like another way to describe robotics, but there is a distinction. www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

"For a few hours a day, I live in a political world that suits me, albeit one based on a contorted version of reality. But now things have changed, and my world of illusion has given way to the reality of the events that transpired on a cold winter street in Minneapolis, Minnesota."

My sadness is beyond description.

How to switch your Windows 10 PC to Linux Mint - for free zdnet.com/article/how-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social There’s still time to switch from #Windows10 to #Linux. Just saying!

Increasing Trust in Automated Driving It is one thing for automated driving to be safe; it also has to be _perceived_ as safe. www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...

"So, I will be moving away from mainstream social media.... We are in dire times. The leaders of the MAG7, the people who control the operational foundation of all the social media platforms, have shown their true colors. Now it's all about Plan B." reselbob.substack.com/p/not-my-typ...

Video of the incident is in the lower right of the web page here: ktla.com/news/local-n...

Huntington Beach, CA.

In my lifetime, I saw the towers go up as a boy driving into Manhattan with my father, and I saw them come down from my office window. My life changed profoundly after September 11, 2001. I am sad, both for the time that has passed and for today.

And, in this week's cartoon: theworldinwhichwelive.substack.com/p/state-of-t...

"A U.S. Department of Justice deputy chief said the department would “redact every Republican or conservative person” before releasing its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein." www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...

"... as the most powerful executives in America continue to kowtow to a president who is systematically dismantling the foundations of democracy, it may be time for another axiom: The only principle is power." www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

And, in this week's cartoon... theworldinwhichwelive.substack.com/p/velocity-a...

“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.

And echo from the past that rings true today: youtu.be/wIzGAsGQi20

"The BLM terminated the contracts with Table Rock Forestry Inc. and ASI Arden Solutions Inc. ... and escorted the 42 workers off federal land, the release said. The two arrested were taken to the Bellingham station on charges of illegal entry and reentry, authorities said." abc7.com/post/border-...

Well, peeps in Iowa, this is big news! Do we see the ghost of Tom Harkin hovering above the boundless fields of soy and corn?

"The firefighters at work combating a wildfire in the state of Washington likely also felt the indignity inflicted by the government today when ICE agents showed up and made them line up so the agents could check their IDs. " heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-27-...

"I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health." www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

This week's cartoon: theworldinwhichwelive.substack.com/p/at-the-car...

Remember, cruelty is the purpose.

This is very close to home. Handy J, the place where ICE did its deed, is the car wash I frequent. I was there last week. The people who work there are about as far from the "violent, criminal" type as one can get. They just clean cars. Welcome to Trump's America. abc7.com/post/socal-i...

And in this week's cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/theworld...

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

"Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches." abc7news.com/post/federal...

"Celebrities play to the crowd, garnering their attention and, in turn, make millions, whether on purpose or by accident. ... But to think they are just like you and me, that they’re the type of people we could have a beer with, is delusional. They're not." reselbob.substack.com/p/no-dinner-...

And in this week's cartoon: theworldinwhichwelive.substack.com/p/careers-of...