Cognitive dissonance whenever I hear 80s and 90s jams at the grocery or department store these days. Love to hum along to favorites and one-hit wonders from younger days, as long as I don't think too hard on the 30 or 40 year gap.
16.03.2025 16:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If the protests near me have been any indication, the next civil war will be fought between retirees and angry white guys in pickup trucks.
15.03.2025 16:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For anyone watching the bad romance between John Gruber and Mark Gurman, here's my latest recap:
Gurman says Apple had a private meeting to discuss how off the rails its AI plans are. And Gruber's hot take is that Steve Jobs wasn't there to cut through the bullshit.
That is all.
#apple
15.03.2025 14:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve lost my taste for dystopian fiction inverse to my exposure to actual dystopia
19.02.2025 23:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The real milestone with the iPhone 16e is Apple's own modem silicon. Apple shaking Qualcomm loose is a bigger deal (for Apple) than getting rid of Intel.
19.02.2025 19:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indeed. Glad to see you.
28.11.2024 00:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.11.2024 22:01 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ah, the 17th island. Remember that? Remember them? Remember those? Enough to wish for death. (All posts my own.)
That guy from that thing.
"suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms
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I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
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