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SpaceX Purchases Cursor, a Claude Code and OpenAI Codex Competitor

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New York City Leaders Propose Building More Homes on Top of Libraries

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Road to WWDC 2026: What's a developer?

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The Quest to Mine the Bottom of the Sea

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Killing in Japan Stirs Fear of New Crime Rings That Recruit the Vulnerable

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The Damage of 'Trump Math' Is Adding Up [video]

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The Nobel-Winning Psychologist Who Believed He Found the Secret to Happiness

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The Race Is on to Find the Treasure Buried in San Francisco

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Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says

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To Keep Child Abuse Off the Internet, He Has to Watch It [video]

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Craigslist Made Me Rich. Giving the Money Away Is Easy

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Vertical Farms Tried to Compete with Open Field Farming. It Isn't Going Well

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Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs

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YouTube on Apple Vision Pro (It's Finally Here) [video]

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Sock Rugs and Pants Curtains: When Clothes Become Décor

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Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?

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Brownfield (Software Development)

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Weight-loss drugs could save U.S. airlines $580M per year

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In the Arctic, Drones Help Identify Deadly Virus in Whales

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Toilet Rats: Rare, but There

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mistersquid
·12 дней назад·discuss
> piranha: carnivorous fish

Nice callout.

Neither here nor there, but many (most?) fish are carnivorous.
mistersquid
·22 дня назад·discuss
> There's one more: The "bicycle for the mind" analogy was one Jobs chose specifically in reference to the fact that a human on a bicycle moves more efficiently than a human on foot—or any other land animal for that matter.

One of the canonical references of Jobs’ use of “bicycle for the mind” also compared the efficiency of locomotion to the California Condor which was (I’m working from memory, here) 17X more efficient than a human walking.

A human on a bicycle, according to Jobs then, is more efficient than the most efficient animal locomotion known to humankind. The comparison included animals moving through non-terrestrial environments.
mistersquid
·28 дней назад·discuss
> Relatively nobody in the US cares about soccer, much less travels for it.

Utahns travel to US states with World Cup games for reasons other than the World Cup. Its Summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Utahns do travel, for example, to the San Francisco Bay Area for graduation ceremonies, to visit family, and for sightseeing. These Utahns may mingle with foreign visitors.

I’m not making a case that transmission of measles from a Utahn to a foreign visitor is likely, but the failure to consider possible routes of transmission is exactly why vaccination is so important.
mistersquid
·28 дней назад·discuss
> The World Cup already started. But there are no games played in Utah

For now, Utahns can travel freely to US states where World Cup games are played.
mistersquid
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> But linimal aesthetic is different, especially as has recently become popular.

Your articulation of a liminal aesthetic hits upon the tension inherit in the word “liminal”.

By definition “liminal” signals “in between” which connotes an unsettledness or indeterminacy, or what in other realms is called the uncanny. This liminal aesthetic, at its core, is shot through with a sense of the uncanny, and empty devoid spaces where normally there is a lot of traffic convey this aesthetic clearly and succinctly.

Thank you for drawing this distinction.

My intent when referring to the denotation of “liminal” was to remind that even familiar places, such as bustling train stations and busy airport terminals, are also liminal spaces even if they don’t conform to current representations of the liminal _aesthetic_. By preserving the denotation of the word “liminal”, we can defamiliarize such spaces and recover (or emphasize) their liminality.

All of which is the message of art like Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports”. Who doesn’t appreciate the defamiliarization of our “mundane” traversals of the realms we inhabit?
mistersquid
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> I'm currently in Paris so I've seen a ton of metro stations recently and really, unless you arrived in the dead of night so that you could snap an empty photo like the one in the article, there's nothing much liminal about them.

Liminal does not mean minimal. It means in-between, neither here nor there but in the interstices, transitional.

Dictionary.app in macOS Sequoia defines (with example usage) "liminal" as

  > 1 occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold: I was in the liminal space between past and present | the paintings in this exhibition are the result of recent investigation into liminal states.

  > 2 relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process: that liminal period when a child is old enough to begin following basic rules but is still too young to do so consistently.
By definition, metro stations are liminal spaces, as are airports, airlocks, highways, and most every transit station.
mistersquid
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue?

A: Linux
mistersquid
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> 100x is achieving something in two days, what it took an entire year before.

Reduce your scale: "100x achieves in 1 hour what used to take 1 week."

One year of work could require levels of complexity and human judgement that can't be accelerated past a certain point.

1 week of work can be reduced to an hour and some change.
mistersquid
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> The contemporaneous iPod _was_ technically and acoustically inferior to the Nomad.

You're cherry-picking your "technicals". The click wheel hardware and software implementation (especially the UI response time) was (and still is) revolutionary.

iPod won on the technical merits; just not the ones you're focusing.
mistersquid
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> Your concerns are completely nonsensical.

With all due respect, my concerns are not nonsensical but borne of my daily use with Apple Vision Pro and my awareness of the limitations of dwell control.

Iterating on this idea with a device lighter than Apple Vision Pro and improvements to dwell control would likely be required before this could ship to larger populations of disabled users, but that is not what is depicted in the video.

My sense is that the possibility of an accessibility affordance with people who are severely disabled is driving opinions in this case more than the reality of what’s available.

To my mind, much of these AX announcements are reminiscent of the circumstance that led John Gruber to author “Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino”, which is that these are not shipping features but ones slated for “some time later this year”.

I’m a huge AX fan and work directly in the domain space, but something about that video in particular coupled with my near-daily use of Apple Vision Pro doesn’t feel right.
mistersquid
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> A new power wheelchair control feature leverages the precision eye-tracking system on Apple Vision Pro to offer a responsive input method for compatible alternative drive systems. [0]

The above caption for Apple Vision Pro is for a video that to me, as an Apple Vision Pro user, is discomforting.

More questions are raised than are answered by the short video: Is the user able to fit the Apple Vision Pro by him/herself? What happens when dwelling on a directional control misregisters? Can the user recalibrate the "Eyes and Hands" setting? Dwelling on a control displaces focus and there may be impeding objects in the path of the power wheelchair. Is this really a good idea?

To my sensibility, the video is unsettling (at best), especially given how cumbersome Apple Vision Pro is.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-acc...
mistersquid
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Consider the field of comparative mythology described by Joseph Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". [0] As a side quest, check out James Frazer's "The Golden Bough". [1]

On a more critical note: separating a story (diegesis) from the telling (narrative structure) is like reducing animals to skeletons, disregarding the sinews, fascia, nerves, flesh, and fluids that make up an animal.

For example, describing Alain Robbe-Grillet's "La Jalousie" as a story about a man who suspects his lover of adultery is reductive to the point of atrocity. That particular novel tells the story using pioneering metafictive techniques and reducing it to its narrative types would yield very little insight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough
mistersquid
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> > Also, those that claimed this article is ironically a casualty of it’s own complaint are 100% right, Kudos.

> Why would the article be a casualty of its own complaint?

The "Disclaimer" section was added after the initial publication according to the Wayback Machine.[0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20260506162056/https://nooneshap...
mistersquid
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> What a wild take. I guess that explains the massive and growing popularity of iOS over that same time period.

Wild take, indeed.

I seem to recall something about Apple releasing a sub-$600 laptop so popular that weeks after it was announced it's backordered for more than 30 days.

Something something MacBook Neue or other…
mistersquid
·3 месяца назад·discuss
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mistersquid
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Old guy, here.

This ranking is fun and the as-of-now results mostly track.

1. Original iPhone

2. M1 Chip

3. Original iPod

4. Original Macintosh

5. Mac OS X

Though I’d put them in a different order.
mistersquid
·4 месяца назад·discuss
> not that long ago, many still saw the "metaverse" vision as inevitable; a clear trajectory for the future of the internet.

> And the failure isn't Zuckerberg's alone. Microsoft, Apple, and a good many others all crashed into the same wall.

This is revisionary. Mark Zuckerberg's Meta was the only company to go all-in on the "metaverse". Microsoft has barely even dabbled in an adjacent area with the Hololens.

Apple has essentially zero exposure to anything like the "metaverse". Apple's Spatial Computing and its use of Personas and SharePlay is not like the "metaverse", despite the comparison between Meta's and Apple's efforts being perhaps inevitable.

The metaverse, as Meta pursued it, was a social media virtual reality space, and only one of the three companies you mention touted and offered a product for users in this space.
mistersquid
·4 месяца назад·discuss
The good news: macOS can unlock FDE over SSH.

The bad news: `The capability to unlock the data volume over SSH appeared in macOS 26 Tahoe.`
mistersquid
·4 месяца назад·discuss
> Also the non-XDR is only a small upgrade otherwise, no 120Hz, no HDR, only Thunderbolt 5 and a new camera. Finally a downstream Thunderbolt port though.

The camera is still 12MP but offers Desk View. Maybe this is a feature unlocked by the improved onboard A-series chip (A19?).

I wouldn't sniff too hard about Thunderbolt 5. Thunderbolt 5 doubles throughput to 80 Gbps from 40.

Would have loved refresh above 60Hz but then who's gonna get the XDR?
mistersquid
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
> Not sure if anyone has heard his interview on the Hard Fork podcast...

Made the same mistake. Pete Steinberger created Clawdbot > Moltbot > OpenClaw.

The creator of Moltbook is Matt Schlicht and his Hard Fork interview exposes Schlict as security-negligent. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9vRCYtzYD8&t=2673s