#FountainOfYouth (#AppleTV) should have been titled “#IndianaJones and The Movie Doppelgänger Lacking Any of the Heart, Empathy, or Engagement that Made Raiders a Great Franchise.”

Wow, Medium seems to have become little more than a host for thousands of AI-generated articles that all sound just alike.

Season 2, Episode 8 - Who Are You - of #Andor is near-perfect television. The machinery of that story, grinding relentlessly forward, the chanting, the soundtrack moaning like a dark thing in labor … OMG. I can’t even. I’m wrecked.

@AnthonyBaker DRM is absolutely the real villain here.

@athousandcateaus Hey, thanks for speaking up! I’m glad the kobo works for you. Maybe I should give the KOReader setup a try!

Before you consider switching away from your Kindle, please read this:

https://markmcelroy.com/read-this-before-switching-from-kindle-to-kobo-boox-or-others/

Here’s the thing about spotlight-loving, big idea, ketamine-fueled change-makers:

They get bored fast, and they move on, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake for you and me to clean up and pay for.

I tried to escape the Amazon Kindle.

I failed.

https://medium.com/@markmcelroydotcom/my-failed-effort-to-abandon-the-kindle-19ff58c3b7fe

Kinda charming how, in Nemesis Games, Holden wants to solve a data mining problem by hiring programmers instead of using his century’s ChatGPT. #TheExpanse

I wish the Kindle ColorSoft looked this vibrant and appealing all the time … and not just when I place it directly under a high-powered halogen lamp.

@AnthonyBaker Ha! You’ve just described my husband’s life! 😜

Ha!

#askatp While I enjoy using ChatGPT, OpenAI’s newly announced financial links to the Trump administration have me considering Claude as an alternative. But I know Google is a major investor in Anthropic, and I’m trying to de-Google myself!

The tight alliance between tech oligarchs and Trump is making it harder to align my passion for good tech with my personal ethics. So I guess I’m asking: Is Anthropic a more neutral or less politically-charged company in any meaningful way?

Virtually every template, process, or workflow you’ve ever encountered can be supercharged by feeding it to #ChatGPT and saying, “Guide me through this framework, step by step, transforming the work being done into what feels like a natural conversation with a knowledgeable friend.” #AI

@robertbreen Well, I seem to have a Boox, a Paperwhite, and now a Colorsoft. They’re like tribbles!

Here's the thing about the new #Kindle #Colorsoft. It's fine. All the tech YouTubers have to have *something* to go on about, so screen brightness, resolution, and soft colors get lots of attention. But it's just a Kindle, in the end, with a weeks-long battery and a bit of soft, faded color on the covers of books.

Wow ... making a slideshow of photos in Apple Photos is just ... no fun at all. Can't choose the music I really want to use ... don't feel good control over the pace and speed of the piece.

Apple's a little schizophrenic when it comes to the Photos app. They want it to be a showcase for your work ... but they've eliminated book making, and simple things like making video slideshows are just too weird and hard.

#Apple -- that's a problem.

In which a plucky traveler discovers who really pays tariffs:

https://markmcelroy.com/fun-with-tariffs/

Never more ashamed of #Apple or disappointed in #timcook than when I saw the ring-kissing tweet congratulating Donald Trump on his election victory. 🤮

I feel like this election is tainting every single safe space in my life.