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Can we STOP promoting LASIK like it's some miracle cure? No one should be getting LASIK, it's INCREDIBLY fucking dangerous. The industry LIED to consumers about its safety. I am LEGALLY FUCKING BLIND after LASIK. I have friends who have attempted suicide bc of LASIK!
— Chris Alvino (@ChrisAlvino)
This type of creativity is rare in tourism ads these days, most of which blend into each other. This is different, a typical understated Norse sense of dry humor. From . Well done, more needed in this series.
— Rafat Ali, Media Operator & Dad (@rafat)
(2) Linus on X: "Making a thread of some DALL-E 2 (not 3!) generated images I find strikingly beautiful. this kind of varied, surreal, almost soulful style is hard to find in modern RL/preference-tuned models, and I think it's a huge loss. thinking of fine-tuning SD 1.5 on this dataset https://t.co/dhunYcaZWB" / X
thread of nicer looking ai-generated images
(2) Andy Matuschak on X: "Malleable software efforts may unexpectedly benefit from AI integration efforts! Apple wants Siri to be able to understand and act on data in apps, so it needs devs to expose their nouns and verbs. So we get high-DX modern versions of, roughly, AppleScript dictionary APIs!" / X
Apple wants Siri to be able to understand and act on data in apps, so it needs devs to expose their nouns and verbs. So we get high-DX modern versions of, roughly, AppleScript dictionary APIs!
— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak)
(2) † lucia scarlet 🩸 on X: "turns out nobody has the macOS Sequoia wallpaper because… ✨it doesn't exist✨ if you check Activity Monitor, you'll notice a Wallpaper process, along with two other processes: WallpaperHeliosExtension (Sequoia), and WallpaperMacintoshExtension (Macintosh) these wallpapers https://t.co/0ywZQIc6Eq" / X
dive into how the new dynamic rendered wallpapers on macOS sequoia work
(2) T£RR¥ M@R¥ on X: "🥹 https://t.co/LiF5tzrFrB" / X
angelina jolie anecdote about becoming an adoptive mother and having a turning point where she realized she was capable of taking care of someone and being worthy of giving them love, having the courage to make him happy
(3) Daisy Alioto on X: "This has permanently entered my lexicon. https://t.co/P9thchG1XH" / X
This question is irrelevant for me, because I'm not a self-righteous, moralizing gasbag. I don t have some boogeyman I've vowed to never align myself with. And my point of view is so clear, so singular, that it persists despite any attempted outside influence. I always bite the hand that feeds me, and everything I say is bathed in satire. I could be ass up in a Marvel movie looking directly into camera saying "Doritos Are My Homegirl!" and it would still be institutional critique. In short, I'm too much of a genius to sell out.
(3) Nick on X: "I’m surprised more people don’t design and build their house rather than buy it. It feels like a nice life ritual to design the space you’ll spend a lot of your life in from the ground up I know many people who bought houses but only know of @simonsarris who designed it" / X
I know many people who bought houses but only know of who designed it
— Nick (@nickcammarata)
(3) Josh Ellis on X: "A few years ago, I had a cool idea: what if I used Amazon wishlists to get homeless people in Vegas what they needed? I could create lists of things they needed and my followers on social media could buy it and it'd get shipped to my house so I could hand it out." / X
thread about homelessness and the experience of being homeless
(3) Tyler Bruno on X: "Brian Chesky on loneliness https://t.co/6vu7A7RUWE" / X
Brian Chesky on loneliness:
> > As I became a CEO, I started leading from the front at the top of the mountain, but then, you know, the higher you get to the peak, the fewer the people there are with you. No one ever told me how lonely you would get, and I wasn't prepared for that. I had this guilt about not working because so much of my life was about being successful, probably if I were to dig deep because I thought that would make people love me
> > And the day of our IPO, we reached a hundred billion dollar valuation. I remember after going public, it was like, 'Oh my God, there's this like amazing exaltation.' It was amazing like I'd gone to the mountain and then I wake up the next day, and my life is exactly the same. I'm alone. I wake up, I put on sweatpants, I go onto iMac, and I have like 10-12 hours of Zoom meetings and I just don't really have much of my life outside of work. My work was my life.
> > I didn't know at the time that I was lonely. I knew I was isolated, but I didn't know that that also meant loneliness. And I thought I have all these people around me, how could I possibly feel this way? And there were a couple people that entered my life that gave me some awareness and consciousness, one at the deeply personal level and one more at the professional level.
> > And the other person I met is the now and former Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy. We hired him during the pandemic because a lot of people were afraid to go into Airbnbs and they were worried about germs on surfaces. I remember having a conversation with him, and he said something to me. He said, 'Brian, do you know what the number one killer in America is?' I'm kind of paraphrasing our conversation. And I said, 'I don't know, is it like heart disease? Is it cancer?' And he goes, 'No, the number one killer in America is loneliness.'
the perfect shade of brown
Gorgeous brown cat
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson on X: "What's a piece of information that you think is very important, not widely known, and that you're very confident on?" / X
— Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso)
(2) Tyler Angert on X: "What’s the fastest way to get cracked at iOS UI engineering. Need things like hidden gotchas about mixing SwiftUI and UIKit and low level drawbacks of each, maybe some kind of primer for people moving over from react land." / X
— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert)
enjoyed this slice in time from jordan's career emails, so here's one of my memorable ones when i was rejected by a startup for not having good visual design... but i asked for a chance to prove myself and got it
this startup got acq'd by fb, and made my career today
— julius tarng cyber inspector (@tarngerine)
What's the most well-designed mobile app out there?
— Michael · Design Partner (@MichaelFilipiuk)
— 🪓BK🪢 (@bradkelly)
(1) XH on X: "What are the most end-user friendly WYSIWYG programming interfaces? Like: MacOS Shortcuts, Yahoo Pipes, IFTTT, Zapier, Scratch, etc. Any often overlooked ones? Or non-nodal? Even better if tailored toward casual use, instead of business/enterprise. https://t.co/jlHqQPdi8s" / X
Any often overlooked ones? Or non-nodal?
Even better if tailored toward casual use, instead of business/enterprise.
— XH (@xhfloz)
i think of this himalayas fancam at least once a week
— 𝗴𝗲𝗺 (@gemmypuss)
This is my favorite new feature in visionOS 2.0. I have always had double-vision my whole life, but after turning this on I experienced actual stereo depth for the first time ever. It was genuinely emotional.
— Harlan Haskins (@harlanhaskins)
(1) GL on X: "Thinking all there is to do in NYC is dinner and drinks or that any social activity costs $50 is a skill issue, however it is one I am here to help with. Below is my running calendar of free things to do in the city this summer, go save money and have fun https://t.co/2ujSlubTGp" / X
— GL (@gldivittorio)
(1) † lucia scarlet 🩸 on X: ""ok but how do we know Private Cloud Compute is actually private. do we just take Apple's word for it" Wrong 1. they will regularly release images of the entire custom OS powering these servers for public inspection, along with a virtualisation environment, so security https://t.co/NUvmLYYAdh" / X
1. they will regularly release images of the entire custom OS powering these servers for public inspection, along with a virtualisation environment, so security…
— † lucia scarlet 🩸 (@luciascarlet)
Yesterday, a man named Andrew Janoff became deliriously enraged by someone waiting for the train while wearing a keffiyeh.
Janoff is seen pushing the person toward the subway tracks, screaming so loudly people standing near him move away, & stalking him on the platform.
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg)
If the tsa was on every corner of your street, and occasionally went into your town to shoot a local kid and was protecting an encampment of Nazis that decided to set up a camp in the local park to harass your kids, and arrested children as young as seven, and shit off your water…
— BennyAdam (@BennyAdamTalks)
Math Notes is the most Bret Victor thing that Apple’s shipped, in recent memory.
Direct manipulation 💯
Handwriting ↔ Charts ↔ Variables coexist in a single coherent medium that doesn’t just mimic paper, it’s computationally-rich.
— Andric (@astralwave)
In case it isn't clear, what Apple has done is the reverse of the search deal (to OpenAI). Rather than get paid, whether they pay a lot or a little it won't matter it will be for a finite time. In this sense it is more like Apple Maps. They have insulated themselves from…
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)
This Siri demo is probably the most useful AI use case I’ve seen
— Tyler Stalman (@stalman)
javi on X: "Apple’s ability to tell a clear story about how they will help normal people like you get stuff done is night and day compared to Google." / X
— javi (@Javi)
Clever video content is the new press release
How do you announce something that isn't tangible or looks cool on social media? A website, a new blog, a new Saas offering etc
Build a fun, watchable short video scenario around it
This is a website launch for a boutique called…
— Oren John (@orenmeetsworld)