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Why I’m not worried about AI job loss Some sanity from the AI doomerism narratives that’s fueling today’s AI bubble, and causing politicians and workers to panic and make the wrong choices.
Always invite Anna A great life lesson. Always be inclusive even if you think you’re getting a “rejection”. It will still mean a lot to others!
Liquid Glass : Shiny things always look great at the store, and this looks like it was designed to look sexy at the Apple Store. It’s an obvious artifact of the Alan Dye UI design factory, with an obsession for how things look (in UI mockups) rather than how they work (in the real world). A small positive of this design change is that buttons, toolbars and other clickable elements are more…
If you migrated to a new Mac running Sequoia using Migration Assistant instead of a clean install: Notifications from iPhone will stop showing up Widgets from iPhone will still be there based on the state before the migration, but will never update anymore It’s already macOS 15.5 and this fuck up by Tim Apple remains unfixed, which is just infuriating. Some threads I managed to find:…
The invisible problem: text editing on Android and iOS sucks – OSnews Text editing on mobile needs to be fixed but mobile platform owners are not incentivized to rethink fundamental problems. A very common blind spot in the industry.
Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Plausibility But Not Science Has Dominated Public Discussions of the Covid Pandemic ⋆ Brownstone Institute : This body of fake knowledge has been promulgated at the highest levels, by the NSC, FDA, CDC, NIH, WHO, Wellcome Trust, AMA, medical specialty boards, state and local public health agencies, multinational pharma companies and other organizations around the world that have violated their…
If you meet a person and they act a certain way, you learn to recognize that pattern in them. If you develop for Apple platforms and every year is a series of new inconveniences to manage just as much as it is new technology to consider adopting, you learn to assume a negative progression in convenience, utility and freedom, just as much as you have hopes for the advances in frameworks and…
Time to Put China on Lockdown for Its Dishonesty Amid Coronavirus Crisis : The world needs to decouple and put China in it’s place.
A message that seems alarmist may actually be prescient. Why Did an Expert Who Warned About COVID-19 Have So Much Trouble Being Heard?
Lessons to learn. Bill Gates: “The Corona Virus… is sent to remind us of the important lessons that we seem to have forgotten and it is up to us if we will le
China Boomeranging | National Review : “China will rue what it begat.”
What Happens if a Pandemic Hits? : Sane advice. Be prepared, don’t panic!
Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China’s Major Corporate Hack : Beware, China.
Apple Keeps Telling Governments It’s Pro-Consumer, but That’s Not True : The best description of Apple’s motivations which I’ve seen in a while: “Apple generally does what’s best for itself, taking competitors and supplier constraints into account, and then markets the most consumer-friendly spin on that action to the public.”
Jim Jefferies has the final word on gun control. Let’s consider this debate closed, shall we? Watch: Part 1 and Part 2
Brilliant!
You Need To Consider The Possibility Your Religion Is Mythology
Are we living in a simulated universe? Here’s what scientists say. It could be true! Look at all the ridiculous coincidences.
Antti Oulasvirta on Twitter VR & AR seem more like a sci-fi pipe dream than anything practical. Tim Cook’s Apple and Facebook (Occulus) are barking up the wrong tree, as usual.