🖋️ Caveat - Not My Words ...

… but there for the grace of whatever power you hold true - do we all go. Sometime sooner. Sometimes very much later. But go we do. Few have the power to control ‘when’.


🍎📺 Finished Imperfect Women last night. Really rather good. Seem to be more and more of these ‘secrets wrapped up in Russian Dolls’ stories. They aren’t always great. 🚧


🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.

Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.

🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential. (With their permission - and payment - of course.)

👍🏼💡❓


📸🍎 The 🔗 LinkedIN post remains’ meh’ - BUT - I did like the associated image


Crucial Track 🎵 May 16, 2026

"Oh Well (Live)" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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Talking of superb covers … as I wrote 🖇️ here not even a month ago - a glorious cover of track by Fleetwood Mac. Before John and Stevie. Even before Christine.

Bonus Round ...

🔗🍎🎵 PartONE that Tom covered.

🔗🍎🎵 PartTWO that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.

both performed by Fleetwood Mac.

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🍎 I have no idea if this is anywhere near true / possible. BUT.

A $2billion acquisition is (I think) the second largest Cupertino has ever done? So clearly there’s something going on - and I hate talking to my computer for so many reasons. So this …

Q.ai specialized in one thing: analyzing facial micro-movements and patterns to determine what you’re saying, without any audible speech required.

shall we say piqued my interest and just might solve my issue.

🔗 Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 3 variant could debut a groundbreaking new feature

[my thanks to @devilgate for pointing out my typo … ‘piqued’ … not ‘peaked’]


🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.

🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.

Some of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.

💬 John Gruber


Still the ‘🍎 at 50’ articles subsume my feeds .. not even Artemis can compete.


I guess every 🍎 pundit in the world had their 50 years of 🍎 lined up and ready to go this morning. And go they did. Holy crap, that’s a lot of memories.