Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer – RealityStudio
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The Forgotten Customer - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer
Swarthmore’s Soft Dark Underbelly
It's wild how much of this was just normal when I was on campus.
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
What is learning if you don't go through the process? Also this "Lee" seems like an Ur-TechBro
Pride Band-Aid
The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President
Norms don't work with people like him
Death is the policy
RFK Jr. is laying the groundwork.
In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more
Not going to be fun when this pops.
Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed
Big statement.
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
I'm out of patience with American individualism. Either we're in this together and we're a community, or we aren't.
when we protect the least of us, we protect all of us. Even if we don't want to be, we are actually in this together. Eugenics is just garbage anyway.
this idea that all of us—rich or poor, young or old, informed or uninformed—have a fundamental right to go to the store and buy food for ourselves and for our families that won't kill us and make us sick
Our government should protect us in an every person way, and we should stand together in an every person way.
I'm an Apple fan in 2025. What does that even mean?
Dan Moren has some thoughts on fandom for the most successful company in the world, in his last column for Macworld.
Are "AI" systems really tools?
How specifically does it encode knowledge of how to solve a problem or complete a task?
The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
This is a fun single frame error from the final battle.
Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Dating apps face a reckoning as users log off: ‘There’s no actual human connection’
Seems like the problem is a dating app that succeeds loses a user.
Why Men Are Falling Behind in Education, Employment, and Health | Harvard Magazine
Funny overlap in quotes with an NPR On Point episode series I'm listening to. Seems like we need to reformat school but that's not going to happen in current environment. Also disaffected men vote for strong men...
The Missteps That Led to a Fatal Plane Crash at Reagan National Airport
A pretty good initial report on what went wrong. Lots of changes to avoid.
There is a mushroom in my computer
Complex adaptive systems and social intelligence are ideas that help explain what large AI models do. That does not make their outputs safe to consume.
Elegy for the Screenshot
It's such a stupid limitation.
Apple Gaming is Still a Joke
One of the more popular games with my kids is Fortnite which is not able to run because of a fight between Tim Cook and Tim Sweeney over iOS App Store rules and pricing
Student Affairs Denies Disciplinary Appeals, Amends Some Sanctions
On April 10, the Division of Student Affairs notified students previously found responsible for violations of the Code of Conduct who had appealed of
This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
Right now, you’re behind me, within reading distance on the freeway, at the stoplight, in the parking lot, maybe in the drive-thru line, or perhaps...
App Store Curation
Apple lies about all the garbage in the App Store because they love the money.
SAY THE WORDS: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP
We are sending people there and they are not coming back.
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
Yikes. Need to think about more actions than posting.
The creator of Papers, Please wants developers to make weirder, more personal games
Nice award for him. I need to play more of his stuff.
Apple really needs that Services revenue now
I'm still sad about Apple Arcade
Back to the Crazebox! - Toons Back To A Website
Guestbooks! Web rings!
The Hidden Costs of Men’s Social Isolation
When men suffer social isolation, women may pay the price, too
I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong
I’m not into politics. Never have been. That’s why it was so refreshing to have a candidate who wasn’t the same old same old, but a raging animated...