Just your normal average super successful tech company spending a ton of money to keep your searches private. It matters what kind of strategies you buy into.

I’m a tester and I want my voice utility with google execution and apple privacy now pls thanks. Image playground still won’t generate images of any Apple products, ever. Bet the lawyers made em do that

oh yeah that’s the stuff

Look how fast they took Trump’s face off the screen after the crowd erupts in boos.

Rearranged the garage this weekend and now I have to rename the garage doors in my home app. Convenience is so fucking exhausting.

It weighs on my heart to see my do-nothing senator chasing an endless series of performative make up shots.

In response, Microsoft announced Windows Ranch 99

I’m not sure I wanna take a national defense advice or information from somebody who sticks steaming eggs up her vagina, or whatever the fuck that was about.

Mac OS Weed.

I am looking for thoughts on what happens when your county uses (platform) that you don’t belong to for public safety alerts. Like, is it good to spray and pray when everyone around already has a phone with a unique identifier?

Thankfully, they are replacing Siri wholesale and it looks like they’re using Apple’s private cloud compute to do so. Let’s see if it gets better with some Google privacy astringentgoodness under the hood.

Hey, how is blue sky doing this morning?

Changing your habits of a small price to pay for the opportunity to not literally kill someone

Curious about this: a candidate sent this out to everyone in our county yesterday. See anything wrong with it? You can turn in your early ballot on Election Day, and tomorrow polls are closed for in-person early voting. Feels like an effort to confuse voters and an own goal in one.

USAID was $35 billion - or 0.3 percent of annual federal spending. In return for that spending, we saved literally millions of human lives. So what, we could have instead spent that money giving every American an extra Starbucks latte each week? Populists can go fuck themselves.

A good example next door (heh) is Reno. All the big data centers and project starts are in Storey county. Reno is in Washoe county. There are data centers there - a few small-mid ones. Reno just enacted a short moratorium on data centers. The biggest in Nevada are being built a few miles away!

Watching the interview was a good primer on how badly broken the media already was, in addition to a capsule on how “straight news” has lost the presumption of normality, thanks to Bari.

The two most beautiful words in any language are: I forgive.

Part of the 2029 plan should be ending the ethanol requirement in cars. Corn farmers will piss and moan about it but fuck em, they can learn to be real farmers instead of just driving tractors around on the government dime.

Most tour guides in SF: Gold Rush. 1906 Quake. Phil as your SF tour guide: Hey, you wanna know about The People’s Temple?

I love how Apple Data Detectors still treat every TestFlight build number like a telephone number in the notification email despite this being an annoying problem for about forever now. For fuck’s sake, I just wanna update to that specific build. Yeah I see the big button.

My grandfather was one of the scared shitless young men who arrived on the Cotentin peninsula just short of 82 years ago. He was part of the Army’s 8th Air Force, an interpreter and intelligence man. He arrived in Normandy speaking fluent Cajun French….

It’s a beautiful day where I live and I think maybe I’ll put on Band of Brothers tonight as a reminder that Germany had already lost the war anyway, and it was just a fancy mopping up operation.

It always makes me wonder how much of the concert people see when they are making videos on their phones that they will probably never watch again.

just remove the T and leave for the weekend

Welp. Registered Republican now.

very noticeable that Trump is doing his exact rally speech in Wisconsin, only sitting. Almost like he's not able to stand for a long period of time right now and the "roundtable" (nobody has spoken other than him!) is a front

Regarding the speed limiter discussion: The State lets practically anyone with a pulse get a license. Implementing strict and enforceable driver training that actually costs some money to obtain is a viable path to encouraging transit and safer motor vehicle operation.

Oh shit. If Zuck really needs MORE money to pull this shit off, it’s a lot harder than we were led to believe” Not optimistic the folks who only know “line goes up“ can figure this house of cards out before a stiff breeze knocks it over.

im so sorry

Speed limiters definitely ain’t happening, folks. It’s a nice thing. It’s also impossible to retrofit to the millions of other cars that generally do 5 to 10 miles an hour over the limit. That makes it dangerous and a dumb idea. Driver training is the answer and we won’t do that either.

Because Nevada has closed primaries, I’m unable to have a voice in what passes for municipal elections for years now. Today, I changed that by registering as a Republican. I can still vote for democrats in the general, and can change my affiliation at any time. it’s the only way to be heard here.

W/absolutely immaculate alt.

this is terrible for Elon, just one major outlier like S&P standing up against the rush to cash in on this world-historical bag drop raises questions that have no good answers

Wild stuff here. Got an E*trade solicitation for a SpaceX buy-in seminar, so I’m thinking of pulling some mostly parked money out of there and putting it elsewhere. Any suggestions?

I have a feeling some people are feeling more nervous about Elon Musk these days.

”why would Trump be best friends with Putin over a hotel when he can loot the riches of the richest country on earth?” explained.

The Republican Party is a scammer trying to get help unlocking a stolen phone on Reddit. Don’t help them.

It’s Meta, so this has been working for quite a while on the employee builds. Source: the PM told me so. You’re being experimented upon.

Why would you drive a car that accumulates hit points in the pursuit of “convenience”? Look closely at the next fancy Tesla you pass. The curb rash on the right hand side wheels? that didn’t get there by itself.

This reminds me of the flight to Los Baños during the early 2000s by Silicon Valley aspirants who can’t do math. if your time is worth so little, just move to Oklahoma. Less traffic!

If the company doesn't protect its trademark, there's nothing stopping a Nazi influencer named Patrick E Gonnia from doing the same thing. They *have* to defend the mark. This stunt is gross and bad faith, sorry

Loving the idea of Apple’s internal counsel sorting through gigabytes of Musk’s emails, but they’re also professional and act with the same secrecy that shrouds Apple’s ops in general; don’t expect any leaks of unrelated salacious shit.

Seems to me we’re pretty fucked if the youngs didn’t turn out. Gonna log off for a while.

Anil gets it. It’s about de-escalation. That’s real leadership in a conflict.

reply to every email with "I did not give you permission to send this" and then if they apologize and ask for permission get even madder for the second unpermitted email

Thinking about how much silver came out of the ground a few miles from here in NW Nevada and ended up as a part of photographs during world wars, birthdays, funerals, etc. Naval photographers during WWII were a breed apart. Steichen! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_A...

Here’s hoping for a least worst night.

Imagine telling people that “you need Chevron” when the company has been on a multi-year campaign of political retribution. California doesn’t get 93 octane and pays mystery costs, since Chevron feels it’s not economically viable to upgrade refineries in the state with the most cars. That’s BS.

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...