Jon Reed

I guess age 35 is when Steely Dan starts sounding good?

nah we want it

That's a lot of security protocols for a ripoff of the sauce from every other chicken finger place in the South.

By cruel twist of fate I wound up in A last season and it was like being forced to stare into the sun.

Circle to Search in Real Life: Standout Features and Big Questions for Samsung and Google's XR Headset I wore the $1,799 Samsung Galaxy XR for a week. It was both frustrating and amazing.

I’ve been trying out Samsung Galaxy XR for a while now. Thoughts so far - not a full review since I’m waiting to see if Rx lenses are available for me, but some of the promises/problems at the moment: www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

being a writer means sometimes finding an entire minimized browser window with only a blank, untitled google doc in it and having no idea what it was supposed to be

I sensed this was no more than a couple of years away

Adobe's AI Makes It Quicker Than Ever to Edit Your Photos. I Got an Early Look All the Adobe research projects transform time-intensive manual photo edits into a few easy clicks.

Got an early, exclusive first look at Adobe’s upcoming photography AI research projects. And you need to see them to believe them.

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yes

Include the link! The fact that bluesky doesn't aggressively suppress links is one of its best features, right up there with the nuclear block. It's great for publishers and also the only way we will ever make progress on the "didn't read past the headline" problem of social media

quick, somebody install Doom on the mini supercomputer

Being edited sucks. The only thing worse is NOT being edited.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

this feels ominous as grocery, energy prices and health care are taking bigger bites of our income in the US...

This is the actual, true, nuanced take. Implicit in it being unnecessary on meat is that a rub of some kind, even just s+p, is essential.

A little Carolina gold bbq sauce on a turkey sandwich…

the pro move is carolina gold

this is the way

bbq sauce on meat? unnecessary

bbq sauce to dip fries in? way better than ketchup

This was a really fun find by Katelyn even if this chatbot tried to tell me Dabo Swinney was a better coach that Nick Saban.

I'm sorry, the Pope did a gaggle???

There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

A used bookstore I frequented when I lived in Augusta, Georgia, divided politics into “political science” and “bloviation,” which I greatly appreciated.

My cats are printing this article out and leaving it all over the house as a hint.

dispatch from a NYC climate week debate on whether "AI is humanity's best hope for solving climate change"

"Though this new project continues the trend in which Smith never seems to stop talking, he did decline, through a spokesperson, to be interviewed for this column."

It would be helpful if press releases got to the point quicker and led with something like "we are launching a new microgrid financing program" instead of "we are launching an initiative for resilient community energy systems"

The future is an AI-generated brainrot video of audio clipped from an AI-generated podcast, with a comments section filled with AI-generated spam.

The Most 'Awe Dropping' Part of Apple's iPhone 17 Event? AI Barely Came Up Commentary: The iPhone 16 sales pitch was all about Apple Intelligence. For the iPhone 17, it seems Apple has learned from its mistakes.

Sometimes it’s important to note what’s not said. Or said only 11 times at today’s Apple iPhone 17 event. www.cnet.com/tech/service...