* sad kiwi noises *

Given that the average person lives somewhere near south-east Asia (there’s a circle you can draw on the map there that’s a few thousand kilometres in diameter and covers half the world’s population), that’s not implausible.

Wikipedia Brown, boy detective

There are a few Pixelfed repost accounts who won’t like this

Couldn’t happen to a nicer company

Remortgage your house now.

It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again

They say things like this about every generation. Boomer kids had their brains rotted by TV and rock’n’roll. GenX couldn’t do long division because of calculators. Millennials lost the ability to communicate in complete sentences because of mobile phone texting. In the bronze age, writing totally destroyed the youth’s ability to memorise epic poetry. And so on.

They’re two completely different species. The one with the O is North American, and the other is Australian. They only got the same name because people are lazy.

Looks like AI slop to me.

Nature is healing

Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.

Maybe it’s time to petition politicians in jurisdictions like the EU and Brazil where third-party app stores are legally mandated for mobile platforms to stop exempting game consoles from this regulation. If Sony were forced to allow Steam/Epic/GoG on the PS6, it would make the platform a lot more consumer friendly.

That’s not counting ones undergoing lung surgery and being intravenously oxygenated.

Cofounder, and 50% owner. For him to get kicked out would take a lot.

the twist: after a recent 6-3 supreme court ruling, “no kill” does not have a legally binding definition, and anyone can call themselves a “no-kill shelter”.

If iOS and macOS 26 were about AI everywhere, making them the “fuck around” release, 27 can be the “find out” release. Freeze new features and focus all effort on making the system as RAM and space-efficient. Cut the fat, and replace the convenient, memory-heavy data structures we use today with old-school lightweight alternatives (i.e., never use a string when a word-sized numeric value will do — and on a 64-bit machine, it’ll do a lot of the time, coalesce multiple booleans/enums into bitfields, replace top-heavy formats like XML where there isn’t a good reason for them, and so on).

that looks nice and kentucky

Padme: “…and then they’ll drop, right?”

Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock — Will Rogers