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Ace Combat 11 Cover Art Just Released!

In one of those precious instantaneously rewarding interactions with LLMs… For the past few days, at least, Google’s Gemini had been bothering me to try some “new” “image editing” function, but I did not relent until this morning, when I thought of a Funny Idea… Retouch this (scan of an old 35mm print) photo *as* a vintage film photo and then turn it…

Apple Intelligence Interprets the Navy SEAL Copypasta

Of the more humorous potential uses for the upcoming Use Model actions, I think, is this series of tests (all done within the Shortcuts app) of Apple Intelligence's default actions against the Navy SEAL copypasta . It's worth noting that the following was appended to the end of every result: Note: Writing Tools aren’t designed to work with this type of content. Summarize A Navy SEAL threatens…

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somehow no less powerful to read these words today than it was to hear them spoken by THE President of my generation nearly 60 years ago.

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(Some approximation of) versioning is apparently coming to Apple’s native password manager in macOS Taho: With Passwords, users can easily reference changes they make to their accounts, including checking previous versions of passwords they save, along with details on when they were changed. Apple Newsroom…

Jia Tolentino on The Cazalet Chronicles for The New Yorker

' What We’re Reading This Summer: Mega-Reads ' | The New Yorker on Apple News ... and the web Bookshop Open Library WTF Cazalet Chronicles Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard Learn More on openlibrary.org One of the only unambiguous extended pleasures I experienced in 2020 was that of reading all five volumes of “ The Cazalet Chronicles ,” by Elizabeth Jane Howard, back to back. “Sunlight…

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9to5Mac Reports Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, You’ll Be Unsurprised to Know, I Have Thoughts …it shouldn’t be possible to have a malformed note in Apple Notes. I honestly don’t know Gwoober’s voice well enough to tell whether or not he is suggesting he’s not ever seen malformation in Apple Notes because uh… Sowwweeee buddy!

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5-31-2025 Misc Updated 05312025-233104 WTF ID: E516292F-A89F-4C20-95A6-F16F3FCAFB0E Simplenote Local Draft “The experience supports Markdown style input and files for users who prefer to work directly with the lightweight markup language,” explains Dave Grochocki, principal product manager lead for Microsoft’s Windows inbox apps. “You can switch between formatted Markdown and Markdown syntax views…

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ICEGary

So my late stepfather, Gary, he’s been dead for 12 years. Late doesn’t really sound. But, um. he was the first and only person I’ve ever seen to diligently maintain and insist others maintain the practices of in one’s cell phone contacts, the people who should be contacted in case of emergency, whatever that might be, to prepend the acronym ICE, capital ICE, in case of…

Wipr 2 App Store Review

The Better Web solution for Apple Platforms… in a Good Way. Gourd Bless Kaylee for creating a (more or less) single tap solution to making WebKit browsing tolerable. Recommendable to literally anyone - those paranoid, detail-obsessed folks who care to explore the transparency of Wipr 2’s ongoing development will find the experience pleasant, while most of us can just trust in the…

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Delta Force App Store Review

Note: I did not play a single frame of this game and uninstalled it immediately upon realizing that it (at least as yet) does not have controller support. I’d been eagerly anticipating the idea of this game only the second ever flavor of first person shooter (after the CoDs) to the iOS/iPadOS platform for how many years now? Legitimately, I remember being a younger person when I first…

Google Gemini Tries to Teach a Moa to Kite

A topic that a lot of us have been wrestling with. Gemini Share URL: g.co/gemini/sh… Google Doc: dub.sh/moagemini Transcript

disport

Verb occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; “The play amused the ladies” Synonyms amuse divert Less specific entertain Related diversion recreation amusing amusive diverting entertainment amusement play boisterously; “The children frolicked in the garden”; “the gamboling lambs in the meadows”; “The toddlers romped in the playroom” Synonyms frolic lark rollick skylark sport…

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grift

Via Wikitionary : American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one’s occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift , etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht ), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”),…

playlist hypothesis

noun …the baseline idea of a playlist’s premise, target audience, name, [and] songs. 1 Each of these playlist drafts is mostly skeletal, consisting of what curators call a “hypothesis,” or basic premise and intended target audience (the more specific, the better), and a few representative songs. In developing them, Colomo will flesh out the playlists with more songs (Spotify’s magic…

breviloquium

From Wiktionary : From brevis +‎ loquor . ( Classical Latin ) IPA ( key ): /bre.u̯iˈlo.kʷi.um/, [breu̯ɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ] ( modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ( key ): /bre.viˈlo.kwi.um/, [breviˈlɔːkwium] breviloquium n ( genitive breviloquiī or breviloquī ); second declension brevity of speech, conciseness Second-declension noun (neuter). </th> <th> singular </th> <th> plural </th> </tr> </thead>…

Write.as&#39; Large Language Model Remains my Favorite

The following post was generated entirely using Write.as AI and left unedited. You&rsquo;re welcome. Though I love to go, Tweetbot of anyone, but I think I disagree with the multilayered tables that &ldquo;[Discord Nitro subscribers. Among quite a departure from snapping a &ldquo;Mastodon, Twitter client. If I would be assigned and what I suspect it’s relevant of two gigabytes . The Bot Let’s say…

Gear.Club Stradale App Store Review

Everything but the physics. As a 15-year veteran of what one might describe as realism-aiming racing simulation experiences on this platform (and Apple One subscriber/longtime Arcade hopeful,) I remember being absolutely thrilled at first sight of this title&rsquo;s Store page. I&rsquo;d been waiting since the deprecation of Real Racing 2 for a truly timeworthy experience, so the idea of a freshly…

welter

Noun a confused multitude of things Synonyms clutter jumble muddle fuddle mare&rsquo;s nest smother Less specific disorderliness disorder More specific rummage Related addle muddle puddle scramble jumble throw together jumble confuse mix up jumble mingle clutter clutter up Verb toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way; The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours Less…