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The only thing worse than losing an appeal at the circuit level is going to this particular SCOTUS supermajority for a predictable—and predictably ideological—loss that may last decades or more.

🔗 arstechnica.com

🔗 Sophie, whose localghost website is a joy to explore, defends the craft of making sites for people to enjoy, not for AI bots to grind up and feed to their slop machines. https://localghost.dev/blog/this-website-is-for-humans/

Blueberry Hill ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. B...

🔗 This is a delightful demonstration of the nuance of “progress.” kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

It’s $11 a year via @porkbun.com. I 100% don’t want to jam up anyone’s nonprofit, and I’d be happy to turn the domain over to @discoverhalifax.bsky.social

I admittedly just picked the first legit-seeming on-topic site I found with a quick search.

A screenshot of a social media post from Bluesky. The top post is by Josh Michtom (@rsgat.bsky.social), dated August 2, 2025, expressing disappointment that there is no blog or website called “Hella Facts on Halifax.” Below it is a reply from joeross (@joeross.me), stating that he couldn’t resist and has made the domain hellafactsabouthalifax.com redirect to a real tourism website. The post humorously notes the act as a compulsion, and includes a clickable link preview to the domain.

📱Guys I have a real problem. I mean, I’m not even from Canada.

Why have you done this to me? It’s a compulsion. I can’t stop myself.

hellafactsabouthalifax.com

now forwards to what looks like a legit non-profit promoting tourism in tourism in Halifax.

🔗 Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks (Eric Slivka / *macrumors.com*) (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/)

Legal/ethical merits of a trillion-dollar giant suing an indie influencer aside, it's absurd Apple's ma... https://joeross.me/2025/07/30/015400.html

🔗 Jay Leno Says Today’s Late-Night Hosts ‘Alienate’ Half the Audience With Political Jokes ‘Cozying Up to One Side’ (Todd Spangler / variety.com)

This explains a lot about why I always found Leno so boring—he lacked a point of view. Easily the least interesting late night host of his generation.

Apparently Republican legislators are the absolute scum-filth they want us to think immigrants are…

This seems right to me. I feel like one day around that time I woke up and otherwise perfectly normal people—family and friends—all of the sudden had been listening to country for *at least* a year. I was like “wait since when do you🤪” and they flipped their hair and were like “always Joe, always🙄”.

💤 There’s at least one night a month when despite best efforts, sleep just never arrives. Last night was one of those nights.

⛳ Happy Gilmore isn’t perfect, especially to modern sensibilities, but it’s a ton of fun, and the Bob Barker fight is still among the funniest celebrity cameos of all time.

This would be an instant referral to child services.

📝 The other night I was telling them to go to sleep and I was tired and probably more harsh than I needed to be. And my 5yo daughter looked directly into the windows of my soul and said “You’re just an old man who doesn’t know what he’s doing.” 🤪

This feels like an innovation directly inspired by Philly sports fans 🦅

Wait, really? No one told me it was a horror movie.

🔗 Merlin Mann writes in On Chasing the Right “Zero.” about the widely misunderstood idea that defined a part of his career:

"Put to best use, Inbox Zero is merely a philosophical practice of learning to be parsimonious about which and ... joeross.me/2025/07/13/m...

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

💯Across so many issues now, the important question isn’t what party you identify with, but how many children’s lives would you sacrifice to achieve your policy goals? For far too many people all over the political spectrum today, the answer is greater than zero, and it’s horrifying.

16 years in Catholic schools, including a university I *chose myself* despite being on the edge of atheism—& where I’d be when I laid down my faith—& I’m still incredibly angry & sad about what so much of modern American Christianity has done to the idea & teachings of Jesus.

Yeah, and that splatter pattern suggests the need for some kind of medical attention, or at least serious dietary changes….

That looks like it might be a stain caused by mold cleaner…. Though I’m not an expert

A reminder: age verification is an "automated decision system" so the 10 year moratorium would wipe out the Texas law that the Supreme Court just blessed a few hours ago.

🔗 Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.

Juliana Kim at NPR:

"So, Park booked his flight and spent his final days in the U.S. — playing one last round of golf with his friends, savoring Ha... https://joeross.me/2025/06/25/purple-heart-army-veteran-selfdeports.html

It’s just truly wild that a nonzero number of peoples’ lives were destroyed because they downloaded music from Napster and now we have millionaire venture capital weirdos insisting the world will simply explode if they have to compensate anyone for anything they found on the internet.

Yeah one of the negatives to Bluesky moderation is that some people are very performative about, virtue signaling via lists of people they think are a cool middle-aged insult word like “dipshits”

In a few years we are going to see just a huge swath of maga losers on their deathbeds having traded the last ten years of their life for the chance to say KaMAAAAAAla lost the election.

iPhone Software Update screen showing iOS 26.0 is up to date

“Never, ever install a developer beta on your only phone!” I tell everyone who asks 🤪

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Craig Federighi as nervous as he was in this interview where Joanna Stern asked difficult but predictable questions about why, so far, not even artificial intelligence has been able to render Siri mildly useful.

🔗 The WSJ Editorial Board found the unanimity of some recent “culture war” SCOTUS decisions surprising. But it’s not: the liberal justices tend to be principled, while the conservatives tend to torture the Constitution for predetermined ideological outcomes.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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