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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

something I like from the train wreck of #iOS26 UI… in the notes app, the visible switch from layout and list options to text options when you select text. It’s obvious what it does, and why. it was one of the few things that has delighted me when I discovered it!

#iOS26 is the first Apple update where I really, really wish I could revert it. The UI is poorly thought out with terrible usability problems, even with reduce transparency enabled. Swipe interactions have a very slight lag. Graphics and haptics are stuttery.

Overall, an F grade update.

A starship flies through space with two large, red, celestial objects in the background. Blue light trails from the twin engines of the starship Enterprise. This art is for "Starship Enterprise" by Dofresh.

"Ah, it's like the first time you fall in love. You don't ever love a woman quite like that again." - Montgomery Scott

#MTGxStarTrek #StarTrek

alternately: ERR_ADHD7: Too many processes, shutdown commencing.

Ugh, I don’t know why this is such a popular design trope for user interfaces. I get that it looks cool, but it’s so mid for accessibility!

does anyone know if it’s possible to turn off the weird glow that happens when you tap into text bars in #ios26? it’s distracting.

and for that matter, all of the superfluous movement? the “Reduce Motion” doesn’t actually reduce the motion that’s annoying.

To make my notifications readable, I had to go into Settings > Accesibility > Vision > Display and Text Size and turn on Reduce Transparency.

Which isa big part of the #iOS26 aesthetic. It’s just so bad.

Holy crap, my notifications are almost unreadable if I don’t have “reduce transparency” turned on.

I updated to #ios26, and everything has a slight pause before it happens now. Plus the UI is full of superfluous movement.

Not a fan.

#apple #iphone

My fave is Gas Face, though I guess that’s just a guest verse.

As much as L*blaws sucks, Shopper Drug Mart will do physical+digital passport photos while you wait, at least in SK.

I just heard the new Sublime jam, ON THE RADIO, before it’s been released on any streaming service. That’s frikkin’ cool.

So they’ve learned attachments, then, good!

post a ship that’s not star wars or star trek

I’ve seen that! I fear I’d make something terrible that would DEFINITELY fry my system though.

I picked up a nice, working #Commodore64 system for a decent price. Now I just need to acquire a new power supply, so it doesn’t blow up.

Anyone know where I could get one in Canada? I’m assuming I’m gonna need to mail order it, since the retro tech scene in Sask is kinda small.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #841,340, shaniber.bsky.social ‪@shaniber.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 2, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #841,340!