Imagine, a new iPhone with:

- latest/best cameras
- latest/best screen
- latest/best CPU+memory
- latest/best battery
- no Apple Intelligence
- no SIRI
- no AutoCorrect
- no Apple Wallet or Apple Pay
- no Apple News
- no iCloud
- no Game Center
- no games
- no Apple Health or Fitness
- no Spotlight Search
- no Live Picture
- no Liquid Glass nonsense
- a substantially less expensive price

Chances I would buy such a phone: 99.9%
Chances of Apple making it, ever: 0%

#apple #iphone #ai

@nafnlaus.bsky.social

That does it. It’s time someone made an epic Icelandic #Western #film.

#movies #Iceland #horses

Witnessed spectacular high-speed police chase on southbound I-25 between Santa Fe and ABQ this morning around 9am. Perp flew by at probably 130mph—on the SHOULDER. He was flying along passing everyone on the shoulder—super dangerous. Then in mirror I see the cop lights. Two cop SUVs pass us by in left lane at top speed, sirens blaring. Seconds later, 3 more cop vehicles. Moments later, more cops passed. All going at least 120mph.

No clue what the outcome was, nothing in the news.

#newmexico

@hackerfactor

“Beware of surfers who drop their surfboards” perhaps?

In San Diego/La Jolla people added surfboards to cyclist caution signs—which was fair, given how many cyclists carried boards around with ‘em

@adam

Malicious compliance, in other words.

@nealcurtis

Pathetic and creepy.

The #AI era feels very 1880s-huckster with snake-oil cure-alls and BS advances in industrialization, science, technology, and medicine. Like then, everyone smells money.

The stupid never changes.

@fivebooks

B-but . . . Algeria?

Hmm, would it be awkward to do a #NoKings march in the Kingdom of #Hawaii? 🤔

@laughingsquid

It’s um… a stretch…. to call that performing. Miming, more like.

@jon

If you tweak the image to extreme limits you can more easily tell it’s just two “circles,” or, more accurately, akin to two concentric, circular, careful arrangements of “snake-skin” scales with special repeating patterns.

The brain’s totally not ready to handle the unaltered image but does better with my version.

@ceejbot

Ceej thanks for the excellent summary. The only reason I even know who Karen Read is or that she’s on trial(s) is because of your posts. I watched the two full Youtube videos of the pathologist lady and ARCCA guy testimony and yeah, Brennan comes across as an idiot. And the judge: bought?

Now I’m officially interested in this #KarenRead case. All your fault 🙂

@bosquebill

Proof I see too many #movies: when I look at that picture, I think, ‘thopter.

@bruces

Very cool but note the songs come from a wide variety of dates — from 1905 thru 1987. IMHO it’s extremely unlikely that that first track, “Entertaining Song,” was recorded on a wax cylinder: the audio would be terribly scratchy with tons of surface noise. That first track rather sounds like a field recording made decades later with a good mic or mics and a Nagra machine or something.

omg

Brian Wilson

RIP

#music

@1hawaiiboy

I’ve always struggled with the concept of music from post-European-contact #Hawaii being “Hawaiian.” I’m super-eager to understand the full spectrum of indigenous Hawaii #music from the pre-Capn-Cook era, but what still exists? Obviously no recordings, but what about instruments?What’s been passed down? And was it basically meles/chants?

@raganwald

I’ve never understood why folks use AutoCorrect. It’s arguably the world’s most popular, most often-used, computer game. The game is: you let the computer guess what word you’re typing. It’s somewhat accurate, until it isn’t. Exact same principle applies to autonomous vehicles. It drives fine until it runs over a child or something. 🤷‍♂️

@stern

Lookin’ like I’m gonna be sticking with iOS18 for a long, long time.

#apple #ios #design

@deadline

The stupidity of Hollywood is infinite.

I blame ComicCon.

@tylermorganwall

Can relate. Lately been waking up right around undefined NaN undefined NaN 12:NaN:NaN o'clock and finding I can’t get back to sleep.

@zackwhittaker

Whole Foods here in #SantaFe had a lot of missing food items, numerous empty shelves this morning.