Nick Heer
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Compostable*. Writes pxlnv.com, available here at pxlnv.bsky.social. * where facilities exist
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Alejandra Caraballo
5 days ago
The same crew driving this decline will try to continue their divide and conquer strategy by pinning the blame on trans people when it is clear that this part of a broader war on LGBTQ rights writ large.
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Catching up on Google I/O and Microsoft Build keynotes. Two observations so far: 1) the jargon for A.I. stuff is dizzying and compounding; 2) these guys have no idea what normal people do. "The agent created a hype [slide] deck for the block party" is not a normal sentence.
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Jeromy Farkas
7 days ago
Happy Pride Month, Calgary. Pride began as a protest. It was a demand for equal rights, equal treatment, and equal dignity. Every gain was earned by people who refused to stay silent in the face of discrimination and hate.
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Me: I would like for AirPlay to stay connected after I pause and then resume audio playback after a few minutes. Apple: what if you could split a bill in a way that is more tedious for waitstaff?
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Apple Cash in iOS 27 Will Help You Split Bills With Just a Photo
iOS 27 will include a nice quality-of-life improvement for those who frequently split bills with friends and family, allowing them to easily take a photo of a receipt and generate payment requests for different people, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/01/apple-cash-ios-27-bill-split/
7 days ago
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I almost never use Mail on iOS 26. I just tried to insert an image from my photo library, and I could not figure out how to get back to seeing a keyboard. What a bizarre workflow. Still shocked some of this stuff shipped.
7 days ago
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A curious thing about living in an oil-and-gas city is the number of electric cars and hybrids driving around with bumper stickers professing the owner's love of fossil fuels.
8 days ago
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Should a dog pedometer increment by one or two each time the dog takes a step?
10 days ago
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Ah, that new glasses prescription feeling. (Wooziness.)
11 days ago
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Janne M. Korhonen
14 days ago
I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism
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I'm glad the Pope is contributing to the overlong-essays-about-A.I. genre.
14 days ago
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One under appreciated quality of Adobe applications on Windows is how different options require different versions of the print dialog and they all conflict so you have no idea whether you're actually going to get the document you expected.
19 days ago
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The metaverse obsession in Silicon Valley coincided with the most urgent years of the pandemic. I wanted to know more about this weird time, so I spent a couple of months on this.
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The Metaverse Fever Dream
1. Meta You probably know the gist. Predictions and dire warnings of a future lived in an immersive virtual world had been around for decades before Neal Stephenson solidified the concept in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash”, but Stephenson called it the “metaverse”, and that was important. It was a cautionary tail. Not everyone understood […]
https://pxlnv.com/blog/metaverse-fever-dream/
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Keith Harris
25 days ago
I wish Drake wouldn't release an album today *finger on monkey's paw closes*
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"There will be no parking whatsoever for any of the businesses that are already here" says the person standing in front of a large parking lot that will, in fact, remain after this bike lane is upgraded. Excellent work by this photographer.
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Killarney business owner rails against city's bike lane project on 26th Avenue
https://calgaryherald.com/news/business-owner-rails-against-citys-bike-lane-project-on-26th-avenue
26 days ago
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Real heads know the improvement to look for in iOS 27 is for the keyboard to recognise the first key tap.
28 days ago
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"BuzzFeed AI".
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BuzzFeed, Inc. Announces Proposed Majority Stake Investment by Byron Allen’s Family Office | BuzzFeed Inc.
Byron Allen Named Incoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BuzzFeed, Inc. Jonah Peretti to Transition to President of BuzzFeed AI Company Also Reports Q1 2026 Financial Results NEW YORK --(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2026-- BuzzFeed, Inc. (“BuzzFeed” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BZFD) today
https://investors.buzzfeed.com/news-releases/news-release-details/buzzfeed-inc-announces-proposed-majority-stake-investment-byron/
28 days ago
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Predicting this is a sufficient response to the inevitable comparisons between Ken Paxton's Netflix lawsuit and the Meta ones elsewhere.
28 days ago
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Queens of the Bronze Age.
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28 days ago
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Hillary Clinton made it illegal to dress your child in a three-piece suit for a day at the conservatory.
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29 days ago
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Considering becoming a laptop sticker person.
about 1 month ago
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We are becoming a society beholden to the interests of extremists and conspiracy theorists.
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Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found
Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/im-an-albertan-whos-been-covering-donald-trump-for-10-years-i-went-home-to-write-about-the-independence-movement-i-was-terrified-by-what-i-saw/article_2a003f93-2769-4509-97bd-5b03e841c966.html
about 1 month ago
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What's cool about this administration is how it's pro-cancer.
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about 1 month ago
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Matt “Corncob” Taibbi.
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about 1 month ago
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There is a pretty basic argument for effective public transit, which is that driving is a skill and, like any skill, something not everyone can do well, so there should be other choices.
about 1 month ago
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Sysco was blocked from acquiring U.S. Foods in 2015 for $3.5 billion. Something not in this article but relevant: U.S. Foods returned to the public market shortly thereafter and is now a $20 billion company.
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Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose
Restaurant prices keep climbing. The food keeps getting worse. There's a reason for both.
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-dinner-got-worse-on-purpose
about 1 month ago
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Uhh I sure hope it does.
about 1 month ago
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This studio has gotta reek.
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about 1 month ago
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The informed read-between-the-lines version of this story is that Alberta separatists obtained a copy of the elector list and illegally used it to build a campaigning tool.
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Elections Alberta warns of alleged inappropriate distribution of electors list | CBC News
Elections Alberta says it has become aware of an alleged misuse of an “extremely sensitive” electors database containing the personal information of all individuals who are registered and eligible to vote in provincial elections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-electors-database-9.7182667
about 1 month ago
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The more I listen to it, the more convinced I am that Squid's "O Monolith" is a perfect record.
about 1 month ago
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Criminal that Canada isn't getting the new electric VW Polo but we're getting yet another iteration of the dumb as hell Atlas.
about 1 month ago
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There is no granular control for Siri Suggestions so they basically function like noise with occasional useful signal. No, I don't want to call into my work. No, I don't want to enable work focus. Yes, I would like to open Overcast.
about 1 month ago
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I partly fixed my iCloud Photos problems (also a little giveaway).
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I Kind of Fixed My iCloud Photos Problem and All I Got Was Two Blog Posts and Probably Years Off My Life – Pixel Envy
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/icloud-photos-followup/
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Schooley
about 1 month ago
We’re at the “Marilyn Manson going door to door to shock people” phase of this presidency.
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Has anyone working to build either MacOS or Windows tried renaming files stored in the cloud using their default file browsers? Because this simple task is now ludicrously unreliable and has been for years.
about 1 month ago
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I hate to be boring, but I think I agree with the Knowledge Fight concerns about the Onion’s acquisition of Infowars.
knowledgefight.libsyn.com/1136-april-20-…
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Knowledge Fight: #1136: April 20, 2026
In this installment, Dan and Jordan discuss Alex's show from the day where he learned that the Onion had once again bought his business.
https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/1136-april-20-2026
about 2 months ago
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"Blog" is short for "backlog".
about 2 months ago
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Beginning in September, Apple will have had two CEOs named John, still behind the three going by Michael or Mike.
about 2 months ago
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The brains of the rich are absolutely cooked.
www.a16z.news/p/monitoring-th...
about 2 months ago
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Robson Fletcher
about 2 months ago
Albertans narrowly rejected permanent daylight saving time in a 2021 referendum. But today Premier Danielle Smith revealed the province *is* going ahead with it anyway. Opposition in the referendum was strongest in the biggest cities, while support was stronger in smaller towns and rural areas.
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We're four major updates into iOS 26 and Safari still opens tabs from other apps in random places among open tabs. Too bad this massive company has no time to fix bugs.
about 2 months ago
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Today's Knowledge Fight is a hall-of-famer.
about 2 months ago
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Look I'm not saying I expected journalistic integrity from Penthouse, but Gary Null has a cover story? Zero standards.
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about 2 months ago
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One of the commentators on NASA's Artemis II livestream sounds exactly like Dana Carvey's impression of Tom Brokaw.
about 2 months ago
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Daniel Ahmad
2 months ago
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
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I think it's really neat that I am being advertised identity theft protection provided by Equifax.
2 months ago
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I know it's a classic record and I'm not breaking any news here, but the second half of "In Utero" remains a near-spiritual experience.
2 months ago
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I would be more scandalized if this project were actually real.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/new…
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Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's 'world's largest' data centre
Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Observer has learned.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/news/alberta-scraps-environmental-assessment-kevin-olearys-worlds-largest-data-centre
2 months ago
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Albert Burneko
2 months ago
learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit
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Hank Green
2 months ago
T MINUS ONE HOUR
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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
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I bought airline tickets on my phone once and it felt awful. I can't explain why.
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2 months ago
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