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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Should a dog pedometer increment by one or two each time the dog takes a step?

Ah, that new glasses prescription feeling. (Wooziness.)

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

I'm glad the Pope is contributing to the overlong-essays-about-A.I. genre.

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.

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.

I wish Drake wouldn't release an album today *finger on monkey's paw closes*

"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.

Real heads know the improvement to look for in iOS 27 is for the keyboard to recognise the first key tap.

"BuzzFeed AI".

Predicting this is a sufficient response to the inevitable comparisons between Ken Paxton's Netflix lawsuit and the Meta ones elsewhere.

Queens of the Bronze Age.

Hillary Clinton made it illegal to dress your child in a three-piece suit for a day at the conservatory.

Considering becoming a laptop sticker person.

We are becoming a society beholden to the interests of extremists and conspiracy theorists.

What's cool about this administration is how it's pro-cancer.

Matt “Corncob” Taibbi.

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.

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.

Uhh I sure hope it does.

This studio has gotta reek.

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.

The more I listen to it, the more convinced I am that Squid's "O Monolith" is a perfect record.

Criminal that Canada isn't getting the new electric VW Polo but we're getting yet another iteration of the dumb as hell Atlas.

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.

I partly fixed my iCloud Photos problems (also a little giveaway).

We’re at the “Marilyn Manson going door to door to shock people” phase of this presidency.

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.

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-…

"Blog" is short for "backlog".

Beginning in September, Apple will have had two CEOs named John, still behind the three going by Michael or Mike.

The brains of the rich are absolutely cooked. www.a16z.news/p/monitoring-th...

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.

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.

Today's Knowledge Fight is a hall-of-famer.

Look I'm not saying I expected journalistic integrity from Penthouse, but Gary Null has a cover story? Zero standards.

One of the commentators on NASA's Artemis II livestream sounds exactly like Dana Carvey's impression of Tom Brokaw.

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".

I think it's really neat that I am being advertised identity theft protection provided by Equifax.

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.

I would be more scandalized if this project were actually real. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/new…

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

T MINUS ONE HOUR www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

I bought airline tickets on my phone once and it felt awful. I can't explain why.