@tomnovak
Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus, The George Washington University. Live in Leucadia, California. I study people's relationships with smart things. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IK6_rNQAAAAJ&hl=e
I have been noticing more and more how bad the usability of some Apple products has become.
Take the MacOS Dictionary app. The list of sources in the app's settings is a long disorganized list. Dragging to the top is an awkward process. A real mess.
Uncool at any price!
www.t3.com/tech/tvs/app...
Promising but will this also fix the super annoying Apple TV problem of Dolby 5.1 audio tracks only coming out of the left rear surround speaker of a Sonos Arc system until you toggle eArc off/on on an LG TV?
I'm reading Miki Berenyi's autobiography (amazing!) and asked Gemini's help in getting a reading list grounded in #DreamPop, #Shoegaze and indie/alternative rock.
Here's what it came up with.
Super excited there's a Mazzy Star bio coming this March!
Any other suggestions for "must reads"?
For some reason my Apple Watch 11 thinks I am underwater. That isn't my physical state. Is it trying to tell me my psychological state?
The last thing I wanted to see in my Discover feed was a video from James Comey pleading his case. Plus with comments disabled because he doesn’t want to hear what anyone has to say.
it’s hard to get past how he screwed up the 2016 election. So it’s block and mute for him.
Have been looking for a list like this. And here it is!
A 4-pack of 120 Ziploc gallon bags is $25.08 today on Amazon. It was $19.99 in November 2024.
It this 25% inflation? Tariffs? Or just corporate greed?
What Bernie Sanders says about medical science is so obvious you think it doesn’t need to be said.
And yet it does.
It was verified in South Park season 27 episode 2.
Why does Google insist on showing its bad AI search results front and center?
Today it's telling me that Sonoma (version 14) is the latest MacOS.
Of course we are on Sequoia 15.5
Putting bad AI search result at the top of the search page hurts the credibility of everything that comes after.
“So, how successful has the Norwegian EV strategy been?
Last year, according to the EV Association, 88.9 per cent of all new passenger cars sold in the country were fully electric.”
Meanwhile in the USA we’re burning gas and coal.
apple.news/Ae5beNXnQTqG...
The war on science has expanded to include a war on statistics.
stocks.apple.com/Ae3B2qZINTPa...
This has a little bit of a mid-century vibe. The new design looks way better to me than the hideous Cracker Barrel stores I associate with highway rest stops decades ago.
apple.news/A14CPow5PRJS...
If Musk had gone with liberals and the climate-concerned, every other car on the road would have been a Tesla. Can someone please explain the concept of product-market fit to him?
apple.news/A3UCouAzhSu6...
That isn’t research. It’s work for hire.
Just another day in Oceanside!
If the universe is a computer simulation, this would go a long way toward explaining why things are so screwed up in the US. We’ve arrived at a very dark and annoying level of the simulation game. Maybe the next level will be better?
www.sciencealert.com/the-universe...
A day that begins with Deary’s vinyl EP arriving in the mail from the UK is a good day!
Please make it stop.
More Aloy in NYC...
Wasn't able to generate enough decay with the daily limit of attempts, but Aloy at the Statue of Liberty...
Aloy in NYC in the style of Horizon Forbidden West, courtesy of Gemini Veo 2.
ChatGPT o3 deep research predicts new Deary LP in 2025.
"Based on Deary’s release history and the typical progression of a new band, we can expect news on a debut LP or at least new singles in the coming months."
#deary #dreampop #shoegaze
Full analysis:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gbaff...
Using ChatGPT o3 for $20/month. After flailing around with deep research, not quite getting what I'm looking for, it tells me I'm almost out of deep research for the month. So sign up for the $200/month service.
I feel like I'm in the Black Mirror "Common People" episode w/ the Rivermind service.
The one thing alumni are looking at today as they think about their future contributions is how their school is responding to the assault on higher education.
My undergrad school, Oberlin College, signed the AACU statement. My grad institution, UNC, did not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Error of the day from Social Security.
"Bad"?
Here's the Social Security Website today.
The minute Cory Booker breaks the record, he will get live coverage everywhere.
At that point he will hopefully deliver a kick-ass summary of all the key points he made over the past 24 hours. With all of the news media tuned in.
