This WWDC is FASCINATING.
- Tim Cook starting in front of the rainbow arches with the matching Pride Band and Watch Face
- Going all in with the stoners naming MacOS bit.
- Starting with tackling a bunch of random daily annoyances.
- Going all in on child safety concerns.
Only THEN do they say AI

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already:

If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder.

It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO.

/1

If stop 1 on your “prove you’re not a Nazi” PR tour is a far right rally in Germany where you say people shouldn’t feel too bad about the Holocaust, you might be a Nazi

Pretty much exactly 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the richest man in the world uses the Nazi salute at the inauguration of his close ally as US president. What should rationally not be surprising is still so deeply shocking and simply difficult to comprehend.

2011 Me: Harry Potter is a cute story but its world building leaves a lot to be desired. Why would a society keep all these barely-repentant Nazis in good standing and give them their own club? It was super predictable when the Big Bad came back and they all eagerly rejoined.

2025 Me: Oh.

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.

I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

@benbrode.bsky.social latest appearance on Commander at Home immediately gifted me two new iMessage stickers in the first 5 minutes.

Investigating people for polls you don't like doesn't seem particularly free speechy.

it was an anti-elite backlash, you see

2017 qanon guys: obama. 5 letters. 5 sides to the Pentagon. a shape children learn. children. theyre trafficking children for occult sacrifice. its in plain sight. theyre laughing at us

trump to literally any magazine in the 90s: boy i sure love my horny best friend jeff epstein

I say this all the time: the only useful framework to analyze white people’s self-perception of racism:
1) Racists are Bad People
2) I am a Good Person
3) Good People cannot be Bad People, therefore:
4) I cannot be a Racist, QED

I understand protest votes and I'm not sure they've ever been more important or appropriate but I will also never be able to wrap my mind around the notion that a Trump win will teach the Democrats a lesson and at the expense of... everyone?