Other business leaders at Saturday night’s White House Melania screening included Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Amazon execs who funded the film, per the Hollywood Reporter […]

Partying at the White House on Saturday night was unacceptable. I’m re-evaluating my relationship with my once-favorite corporation. Not that they’ll notice, but all subscriptions except minimal iCloud canceled. #apple

I endorse this newsletter post from Molly White (of Web3IsGoingJustGreat fame): Curate your own newspaper with RSS https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/ #NoAlgorithms #noslop #noinboxclutter

@pj Pulled up theforkiverse.com in the kitchen while listening via incognito mode. Thanks for following through on fediverse reporting—fun episode, well explained. A followup might cover all the other fedi app types. You could even stream an episode […] [Original post on social.linux.pizza]

The new checkmark button is to confirm OR close view OR open a menu?! 🤦‍♂️

Today is another good day to have empathy for other human beings.

Instead of cancelling something, today I’m subscribing to WIRED magazine. They continue to frankly report on politics and realities in tech today, and restated their commitment in this Katie Drummond editorial. (ironically, I can only find it on Apple News+’s page-by-page magazine edition) […]

No “Strategy Breakdowns,” I have not wondered why I buy the Apple products I buy. I do wonder why you have put spam in my inbox. #spammer

First snow. Taken from Ashland Municipal Airport while preparing for our first citywide evacuation drill. #winter

28 people interested in disaster preparedness and response completed Ashland CERT’s FEMA-compliant basic training yesterday. Largest class in years! Congrats to our trainees and thanks to our 14 CERT member volunteers who helped put on the training. #cert #preparedness

You would think Google Drive app would have basic search that finds all document titles containing search words. You would be wrong. Actually Apple Files/iCloud search is much better. The more I work with Google apps, the more mediocre they seem. The main thing that stops me from getting folks […]

I have a report from the #portland war zone. I just returned from a meeting of a classical guitar group at a Central Eastside library. Now I'm sitting at an outdoor table at a sandwich shop on Burnside waiting for my order. It's a lovely day. Very few dead bodies to dodge. Mostly skateboards […]

It’s handy you can edit a Siri-made Reminder by tapping in it, but why does hitting return delete it? (current iPadOS)

Oregon’s mail-in voting system produces some of the higher voter turnouts in the nation. I live here and it works great. That Trump wants to end it is anti-democratic and unconstitutional—states run elections. #voting #elections #democracy #handsoffmyballot

A sad goodbye to another institution, that, in fact, helped make America great since 1967. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump #PublicMedia

Just working comfortably on the back deck on a warm spring Saturday, like you do. #applevisionpro #spring

Sorry to see the FEMA head fired. He’s right, eliminating FEMA is a terrible idea. Just canceling “non-disaster” funding will harm Americans and not really save money. Each dollar spent in preparedness saves $6-13 in post-disaster recovery, depending on how it is measured. Well, if there were no […]

“Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton, a few minutes ago on Bluesky, referring to the crashing financial markets caused by Trump’s tariffs.