💬 Quotes
We were pleased to see the Mac install base reach another all-time high, with nearly half of customers who purchased a Mac being new to the product.
💬 "Tim 🍎"
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Sidenote: Why in the world is Meta’s VP of comms doing this on Twitter/X, not Threads, which continues to grow?
💬 John Gruber
Another Sidenote: Why in the world is anyone on Twitter at all.. sorry ‘that’s where my audience is’ doesn’t cut it.
Get Off .. or continue to support all the depravity … all of it .. even the bits you can’t see .. it’s still there. Like racism in America before Tяump .. it didn’t magically appear .. it’s just come out of the shadows.
When your company is worth more than most nations, you cannot afford principles that inconvenience presidents. The moral equation changes. What once seemed unthinkable becomes necessary. Cook learned this the hard way after he skipped a presidential photo op and was thrown back under the tariff bus. So now he shows up. He sits in the front row. He claps when expected. This is what happens when valuation becomes destiny.
💬 Om
🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021
I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing.
💬 Lindsay Graham
“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”
💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)
I wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.
There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.
💬 Dave Winer
via Mathew Ingram
🔗 The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
But the overwhelming majority of Apple users — especially iPhone users — just let their devices update automatically. They might like iOS 26’s changes, they might dislike them, or they might not care or even notice. But they just let their software updates happen automatically — and they will form the entirety of their opinions regarding iOS 26 after it’s running on their iPhones.
💬 John Gruber
Have to say I need to adjust my feeds that seem to be swamped with how bad xxx26 is. Talk about ‘first world problems’.
Around 1962, Hunter volunteered for psychedelic chemical experiments at Stanford University, research covertly sponsored by the CIA in its MKULTRA program: other participants included Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg. He was paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, and then report on his experiences, which were creatively formative for him. After a friend attempted to dissuade him, he said, “It’ll be fun! I’ll take my typewriter and no telling what’ll come out.” This incident was the first substantial experience any of the Grateful Dead had with psychedelic drugs, and the creative surge he experienced would prove influential on their collective outlook. Around this time, Hunter was briefly involved with Scientology, and also struggled with addiction to methamphetamine and speed, which drove him to move briefly to Los Angeles and then to New Mexico. Some of his hallucinations later inspired his lyrics, such as those to “China Cat Sunflower”.
💬 Wikipedia
“The fact that Trump is accepting the medal says something about him as a person: a classic braggart who wants to adorn himself with other people’s awards and work,” Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, former finance minister and the current leader of the Center Party, told NRK.
💬 Bloomberg
🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere. We should plan accordingly.
💬 Seth Godin
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that xAI’s Grok will join Google’s Gemini as the second frontier AI model on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s internal generative AI platform. The integration, set to go live later this month, will give 3 million military and civilian personnel access to Grok’s capabilities across both classified and unclassified networks — even as the model faces mounting international criticism over safety failures.
💬 The Information
What could possibly go wrong?