Ian Bogost 🍔

Apple Watch has all these health features that maybe sort of work but are fairly imprecise by design. So Apple says “Talk to your doctor” and then if you talk to your doctor they're like “Huh, yeah, I dunno keep an eye on it” as they type frantically into Epic MyChart during your 8-minute visit.

I am sick of the thresholded swipe gestures that make it so you have to flick hard to “move” a smartphone interface (for example, to go back by flicking toward the right). This is a paradigm that needs to end.

What if I also told you that

Sir Grapefellow

When the flight crew thanks you for your “loyalty” for flying one of the four remaining domestic airlines and probably the only one that goes from your origin to your destination.

”The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. We are suddenly eager to have things and people declare their beings totally.”

^^ Marshall McLuhan wrote this in 1964, 60 years ago

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Oh my god.

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Good thing we have these computers around to compute shit for us.

This is the only reason I single-signon

Passionate about moving symbols between B2B SaaS services

We need to shut down architecture schools until we can figure out airport restrooms.

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many people are saying

Somewhere I have a photo of the Cow Clicker cow someone drew on the Facebook HQ whiteboard “wall”

Found the original Cow Clicker “design document,” including a fully-conceived basically final cow sketch (and a bunch of seemingly complicated ideas that thankfully never got implemented).

Wowww

The Truth About Slushies Must Come Out Every slushie is different. Every slushie is the same.

Wonder if I'll ever top this.

omg

What are you doing tonight?

Oh, pouring out and sorting my bag of lump charcoal.

They renumbered to match the year, Windows 95 style.

iOS26 is full of idiotic, terrible tiny changes that make things worse, and it’s not just me being cranky. I think my “favorite“ is that you now have to tap twice to see the Safari tabs you have open.

I'm listening.

This is going to be my new photo for everything.

Introduction to the Literary Humanities

Humanists have long pursued subjects they are not trained in and know little about, such as medicine or urban design. Now, English professors are realizing that their training and expertise is perfectly suited to teaching and studying literary texts.

Pumpkin spice grift season has arrived.

I'll try this once: Your riposte is exactly the sort of speech internet life encourages, a one-upsmanship game of being more right or righteous or just more recent, even though Dunbar's number is a pretty clear hook, and one which (as you note me noting) is hardly definitive. This is the pudding.

QED

In recent weeks, a number of people have mentioned returning to this article of mine from 2021. Here's a gift link.

“Carl’s Jr. of Anaheim, California is testing a program enabling customers to order by touching selections on a touch-sensitive display terminal.”

(TWA Ambassador Magazine, July 1991)

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