🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘Prepare to Ship’ - Clever Software allows iPhone 18 Pro Max to Ship With a Battery That Otherwise Exceeds International Shipping Regulations

Not just clever - but 🤯.

Hidden gems like these provide a portal into what I think of as ‘The Apple Way’.

🔗 Digital Roam

NEW PAINTINGS BY DAN ROAM
RITUAL CAFE, 1026 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
OCTOBER 2026 (OPENING EVENT OCT 2, 6-8PM)

I know Dan through his visual storytelling work - one of the ‘originals’ and very much connected to Structured Thought as a ‘foundational thinker’

I did not know about the painting side of his world - though stop and think for two seconds - it makes total sense.

But not just painting. When I read a bit about the background of the show, the art struck me as a living example of what I have come to call ‘🔎 Differalities’.

If I was 🔗 Ed I would tell Clarkson to back off - this is akin to a Rethuglican campaigning and having Tяump turn up to stump for you.

🔗 Futility Closet - An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements

It was given to him deliberately to set the record

.. doesn’t seem to be in the spirit?

🔗 Siri, not a companion, by design - Asymco

We’re building Siri not to be a companion. It was a very big deal. It’s an advisor, but not a companion. Siri is there as a concierge, a professional persona. It is not an amiable person, because they want to maintain an emotional distance. That was by design.

Have to say that’s what is particularly working for me. More on this later when I get round to it.

🔗 Everything is interesting | Self Distract

Lovely piece and with him all the way - even down to Football.

🔗 Air Theremin · Play With Motion Or Hand Tracking

Cool … via Stephen Downes

🔗 Daring Fireball: Will Oremus Is a Duo Doubter

I bet there are a lot more people out there who would rather have a $2500 iPhone and a $700 MacBook Neo than who would want a $2500 MacBook Pro and a $700 iPhone.

Mr @Gruber is definitely not wrong. I do wish more people would remember the world isn’t just about them and what they want.

🔗 OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future | Matt Mullenweg

1. It will become an annual event.
2. It will be ‘OmNet’.

🔗 Apple acquires Sonera. The next pivot point for interfaces? – Asymco

Apple the original - and only (?) HCI company?

Fully in line with my ‘Vision Pro’ defence.

🔗 Find The Side Door

🔗 Denormalizing Hypernormalization

Once you’ve traversed the list twice or thrice, he says, “you will be able to use them whenever you wish.”

🔗 Roundabout - Futility Closet

.. and use them you should.

🔗 The Nerd Reich is a New York Times Instant Bestseller