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Question Yourself The Most
My superpower is thinking too much about the things I do and the choices I make. I used to think this was a hindrance because it sometimes stoped me acting quickly and getting things done faster than should. Or spending …
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Why I Hate Instagram Now
Colin Friedersdorf writing in The Atlantic about why they Why I Hate Instagram Now Meta, Instagram’s parent company, still says its mission is giving people “the power to build community and bring the world closer …
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No Need To Upgrade
Kev Quirk writing in Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another …
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One Task Minded
I write a lot on my iPhone. If I can estimate, I would say at least 70% of my blog posts are published from it. This is largely due to having it with me all the time, and it being comfortable to type on after years of …
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Anthropomorphising AI
Zach Seward being clear that AI is not like you and me: Aristotle, who had a few things to say about human nature, once declared, “The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor,” but academics studying the …
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Zuckerberg Opening Up
Karissa Bell for Engadget: Zuckerberg then launched into a lengthy rant about his frustrations with “closed” ecosystems like Apple’s App Store. None of that is particularly new, as the Meta founder has been feuding with …
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The iPad Life Comes For Us All
Perhaps not all of us, but for many people who are interested in tech, and particularly bloggers, the allure of being able to use a tablet to get things done is a strong one. I’ve been there, realised that I can’t make …
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Different Strokes
Matt Birchler writing about Math Notes in iPadOS 18: …while I can academically understand why they’re so impressive and that some people will get massive use out of them, they aren’t valuable to me, so they don’t move …
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Producing Slop
For the past few weeks, I’ve been producing slop. Not because I want to. Merely because everyone tells me I must in order to succeed on the internet. Content slop is a strange term, but it describes the mass-produced, …
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Why The RCS Hate?
John Gruber joining two unconnected things together and predictably developing from it a pro apple stance (via Birchtree): But the argument against RCS is strong and simple: it doesn’t support end-to-end encryption. The …
