Apple could perhaps have made that distinction a little less archaeological.
.. absolutely they could .. thanks for your help ChatGPT.
🖋️ Stop Telling Us Why Not. Tell Us Why.
We keep learning that ‘against’ is insufficient (take the last US election as a clear example) .. we need to answer ‘for’ … not only do we continually fail to learn that lesson we also seem to constantly rediscover the knowledge.
John Gruber blogged about XCancel shutting down yet again, adding this in a parenthetical:
…let’s admit it at this point, there’s not just a lot posted on X, it’s resurgent in popularity
It’s true. Just telling folks what we’re against has not been enough to rebalance the web to open platforms.
Not an auspicious start. I wanted to test what Siri ‘knows’. To be fair, phone not finished indexing so maybe that is part of the challenge - coupled with the fact that The Overview isn’t his latest album, although his latest album isn’t fully released either so a little bit of a trick question.
👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.
👁️ ‘Flapping Shoe’ - great new name for POTUS 47 - so symbolic, and an honest representation of this once great nation.
📸 Watching the world go by.
📸 A Long Day …
Lick Lick. Bollox Bollox.
. Then again .. consider the source .. and the source of the source.
🎥 Finished watching: 🔗 Shelter … Jason doing Jason and Bill doing Bill. Meanwhile so many movies I actually want to watch … what am I doing wrong?
🎥 Finished watching: 🔗Justice League .. though I use the term ‘watching’ loosely. I fell asleep.
💬 This I knew .. but I didn’t save it for the knowledge. I saved it for the writing.

💬 Sadly, not just tech.
Matt’s board repeats Sam’s board.
Matt repeats Sam.
Only difference so far that this occupant of the peanut gallery observes?
Matt seems a much more responsible sort of chap.
Oh - and Boards❓Really❓WTF!❗️Get your act together❗️
👁️ Earlier today, I was told that ‘A1’, pronounced ‘AONE’, is very dangerous. She’d read an article in Stuff warning that ‘A1’ posed a threat to the human race.
She was surprised I hadn’t read it. Her understanding was that I knew about this sort of thing.
Should I trust this person - or run?
Each day comes and each day he looks more like Jabba The Hutt.
📸 Well .. hello Wellington.
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Apple iPhone Event First Impressions - Asymco
The results will be seen in the language: in response to a question, people will say “My iPhone says this”. Not Google, not ChatGPT, not Claude. My iPhone is the authority. And my assistant.
Or ‘my InteractivePersonalHubONE is the authority’.