Jay 🆘

A screenshot of the app update details for Venmo, whose changelog reads: In an app of great prowess, they say, Features danced in a grand display. Bugs, once fierce, now subdued, Tapping joyfully ensued, As users hailed the fixes that day.

It would have taken a human, like, five minutes to come up with this, and that would have been cute.

But I’m too cynical not to be one hundred percent certain this was written by AI.

A ROT-13 spoiler question I have about #Bugonia:

Jul jnf fur npgvat fb fhfcvpvbhf ng gur raq vs fur ernyyl jnf na nyvra?

"Bugonia" (2025) movie poster

Media Log: Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025)
★★★★

Watched: Nov 7, 2025

Emma Stone is a genius and a generational talent.

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

This Anna von Hausswolff record is 73 minutes long and it’s incredible

DuckDuckGo now uses "DuckSansProduct" as its body font; a search for "DuckSansProduct" on DDG returns zero results.

#DuckDuckGo #typography #WebDesign

I never hear anybody talking about how great The Sundays are

An iOS 26 “Liquid Glass” selected nav item labeled “Library” with an icon of a stack of music albums behind it. The icon and the text are in a medium red that is easily lost against the medium gray background of the UI chrome.

And, it goes without saying of course, great job, Apple, on the legibility here

A screenshot of the tracklist from Pygmalion by Slowdive. Two songs have an æ character in place of an apostrophe — “J’s Heaven” and “Blue Skied n’ Clear”

Some encoding errors on this Slowdive record on Apple Music. Æ in place of apostrophes.

One of the reasons LLM code generators won't replace devs soon is that so much of being a developer is doing stuff OTHER than writing code.

Sounding like Father Time

Iggy Pop is on this Anna von Hausswolff record??

Who else has heard the singing Red Line operator #Boston #CambMA #MBTA

"Night of the Demons" (1988) movie poster

Media Log: Night of the Demons (1988)
★★☆☆

Watched: Oct 31, 2025

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

Media Log: Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
★★★★

Watched: Oct 29, 2025

Still jaw-dropping. For the record, Mandy is not a horror movie.

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

A movie still, with the books Pinocchio and Frankenstein being held against a dark gray background

Wait a sec I figured out where del Toro has been getting his movie ideas

I got halfway through "The Ritual" (2017) last night, and maybe I'm just too cynical, but it is so by-the-numbers that I just find it completely unnecessary and uninspired.

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social) Attached: 1 image This is the first time Apple's market capitalization has crossed the $4 trillion mark, making it the third company to ever cross the milestone after Nvidia and Microsoft. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/apple-and-microsoft-are-now-both-worth-more-than-4t/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm;_medium=mastodon

This is great news! Now that Apple has so much money, they can stop putting ads in all their apps.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/115452392367673829

I went with #Linkding, and I'm pretty happy with it. Installed via Cloudron on Linode.

A while back Apple and Google changed their "gun" emoji to a water gun image, but it might have been way cooler if they had used a 50s-sci-fi-style ray gun? That way it's still "lethal" but just fictional.

First Netflix DVD, now TiVo.

When people read this headline, they will probably be more shocked to learn that #TiVo was even making new hardware in the 2020s.

I've been a TiVo owner for four years now, and I've loved it so much. I knew this was coming, but it's still heartbreaking […]

Am I right about this, the Jim Carrey Andy Kaufman biopic was called "Man on the Moon" because there was an REM song by that name that mentions Andy Kaufman? Like, if REM had not written that song, the movie would have had a different title -- or, come to think of it, might never have been made? […]

I’m finally thought of an answer to this question:

@sofa

I know nobody uses the #macOS News app, and apparently #Apple knows it, too, because here's what happens when you resize the window in Tahoe. It hides all content and doesn't show it again until you release the mouse button.

@gruber

Tortoise returns https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch

Many years ago a good friend pointed out to me that despite this famous image, there is no pram in the movie Rosemary’s Baby. #NoPram #PramGate

Whoa they remade "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"

Rosemary's Baby (1968) movie poster

Media Log: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
★★★★

Watched: Oct 22, 2025

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) movie poster

Media Log: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
★★★★

Watched: Oct 18, 2025

On 70mm!

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

I’d wager that no single streaming service has as good a movie selection as Kanopy.

It depends on where you're located, I'm sure, but Kanopy is *packed* with extremely good scary movies -- Suspiria, '73 Wicker Man, Girl Walks Home Alone, Rosemary's Baby, Love Witch, Train to Busan, Audition, Let the Right One In, Friday the 13th, Black Christmas... it's an incredible resource