Hi, I’m Jay!

Terminal Swirlie is one of my new favorite shows on @wmbr@mastodon.mit.edu, give it a listen Tuesdays at 8 ET! https://wmbr.org

Has Trump blamed the floods on DEI yet

Light fuse and get away.

Pronouncing "patio" like "ratio"

I hope RCS is improved in iOS 26 because right now it's terrible

Nobody opens the shades on airplanes anymore because it causes glare on their screens :\

A playlist of studio/production company logo animations https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIZYAZJ3M878TAbW4Xb89CXfvZHkGCB2

Why haven't I seen a riff on Trump's "sharpie hurricane" photo in analogy to his Iran bombing claims

The best tools make you want to know how to use them well

It's really crazy that the actual title of the F1 movie is "F1 the Movie."

luv 2 concentrate power in single branch of govt, bless

Has anybody built a UI for browsing longform writing over #ActivityPub?

Maddox created a generation of men who wanted to “be funny like Maddox” and we are still suffering the consequences.

Huh, @ Xfinity on Twitter stopped posting in November of 2023. Is this...a statement about Elon? Communications behemoths don't seem like the kind of thing to take a stance like that.

Please make sure your pets are hydrated! They need you!

I think I must be the only one anticipating a new Luigi's Mansion for the Switch, I love that game.

Rock "The Dwayne" Johnson

Hey NBC is broadcasting Jaws right now

Something really rubs me the wrong way about Wes Anderson exploiting his fan base's object fetishism to sell a $1,000 pen that nobody needs. "You know all those dramatic, romantic characters you've been watching in my movies? Now you can be like them!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn59j75Q1Mc

I am a proud bikeshedder, I want all our bikesheds to be nothing short of perfection

#Apple https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-20/don-norman-apple-has-fallen-prey-to-the-most-disastrous-part-of-design-which-thinks-its-about-making-something-beautiful-and-elegant.html

Fantasy writers will always use a five-dollar word where a one-dollar word would suffice

The real scandal here to me isn't what Meta did, it's that *apps on Android can receive requests on localhost*.

Absolutely bonkers stuff. Android is a nightmare for privacy.

https://localmess.github.io

Dan Bongino looks like he has a blood pressure of 300 over 200.

@ivory@tapbots.social used extensively in a demo at #WWDC!!

Ok are all Wes Anderson titles being generated by AI now

This like "AOR" version of the Koopa Troopa Beach theme in Mario Kart World rules https://spectra.video/w/wi4f4RnjKyTyxwn4dtrLQK

Conet Project CDs are going for hundreds of dollars now??

It might be fun, at the beginning of each season, to take a screenshot of my homescreen, add it to an album, then change my wallpaper and my customizable app icons.

I want #RealmsBeyond to be a real podcast #Blippo #Playdate

#Playdate season 2 comes with a linear streaming video service: https://blippo.plus/depg/

I've been a programmer for almost my whole life, I do it for a living and as a hobby. I've spent the last few days giving LLM-assisted coding an earnest shot.

I'm pretty AI-skeptical, but I'm being as unbiased as possible when I say: we have nothing to worry about (yet). Claude 3.7 Sonnet makes baffling choices on even the smallest bits of code.

Then when you say to it, "Why would you write it like that?", it thanks you for correcting it and apologizes.

OMG NATHAN

Maybe if Instapaper had been getting its act together at all for the last ten years, it'd have had a shot at inheriting Pocket's userbase

Here's an idiotic idea that's amusing me: What if we used a "logical language" like Lojban to write prompts for LLMs??

I should listen to more Xiu Xiu

Wow I'm not sure I knew there was a new Dead Meadow record! They're exactly what I want right now.

So excited for this new Stereolab record, I haven't heard a Stereolab song I didn't like

Norm!

Hey remember that thing Google said could call a restaurant and make reservations for you like five years ago, where's that

’Net Flicks

Does anybody know if the Trump "NFT cards" are *actually* NFTs? Or are they just jpegs with a serial number?

(Please do not tell me NFTs are just jpegs with a serial number. They are stupid, but they are not that.)

Only Boston could invent a music festival as lame in every way as Boston Calling

The name "Caroline" means "reminds me of my friend Carol"

I asked a guy on the train where he got his backpack and he said in a (French?) accent "Diesel" -- but I can't find any bag by that brand that remotely resembles it.

Anybody know of any bag brands that *kind of* sound like "Diesel"?

It was like a dark khaki canvas.

Do people still use OwnCloud these days? Or is there something else I should use?

Something frustrating about a digital calendar (iCal/CalDAV) is that everything on it has to have a date and time associated with it. There's no good way to just add a plain text "note" to a day or week.

Unless I'm wrong? Is there a way?

Calling LLMs "artificial intelligence" is like when cell providers started calling their networks "5G" even though no such standard had been adopted

Anybody know of a tool to convert guitar strumming/plucking to MIDI? I'd like to err on the side of inexpensive/simple over advanced; preferably something that doesn't even require power.

Oh hell yeah the Bears are a shoo-in for the Super Bowl now

Support for #Kagi in #iOS19 challenge #WWDC

What's the best bar or bar scene in a movie?

I know we're "not supposed to" use divs but blindly using section instead is probably even worse #webdev #html

There's a new Stereolab on the way! https://www.stereogum.com/2303393/stereolab-announce-first-new-album-in-15-years-instant-holograms-on-metal-film-hear-aerial-troubles/music/ #music

New Sarah Mary Chadwick! https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-out-to-a-bar-what-am-i-gatsby #music

Me while trying to connect my AirPods before the phone call goes to voicemail: "Now THIS is podracing!"

Is there a website with like some data visualization about all the government cuts Trump has made or proposed? Kind of like the Project 2025 tracker, but focused on just eliminating things rather than policy objectives.

New Deerhoof! https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/noble-and-godlike-in-ruin #music

When I was a kid, Xanadu was absolutely the coolest thing in the world to me. Does anybody else remember this? https://houseandhistory.com/xanadu-house/

To find out if a #Ghost blog is federating, you can add /.ghost/activitypub/users/index to the end of the root URL and look for `preferredUsername`

Why did it take so long for somebody to figure this out? Honestly the idea never even occurred to me but it's brilliant. No more "[suspenseful music plays]" when you just can't understand someone's Irish whispering: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/24/netflix-debuts-dialogue-only-subtitles/

The Rehearsal is TRANSCENDENT.

No mention of Hall effect sticks in the #Switch2 specs https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/tech-specs/#joycon2

Vaporwave is psychedelia for millennials

This voidstomper and icysaw stuff on Instagram -- it all absolutely chills me to my core. The most frightening imagery I've ever seen, but I can't stop peeking at it.

I risk sounding really silly and unserious when I say this, but for something like David Brooks's "civil uprising" to happen, there needs to be some kind of "slogan" around which people can rally. Something succinct and punchy that you can put on your website, or in your Instagram bio, or say to friends as you clink glasses at dinner, or put on a bumper sticker. The same thing, everywhere. "DEPOSE TRUMP" for instance, I don't know.

Wow, #50501Movement is using "Mobilizon," an #ActivityPub-federated events platform. I didn't know this existed but it's so cool that it does! https://mobilizon.org

I wonder if the #Switch2 edition of BotW will get the same UX updates that TotK had, like remembering recipes and discarding items while a chest is open, etc.

Wow, the artwork in "Taria & Como" looks amazing #Playdate

Mario Kart World looks *massive*

At this point all the terrible and laughable things about Twitter have eclipsed this -- but it's hilarious to me that the X rebrand is still using the "interim logo" (Elon's words) that some Elon disciple posted in reply to a call for logo ideas almost two years ago.

Is there an API for the handwriting "refining" in #iOS?

As far-fetched as this is, tr

The death of linear TV has destroyed society. This, and this alone, is what's wrong with the world.

The broken YouTube link preview cards on Mastodon is becoming really frustrating

Which app or website has the best UI for looking at *historical* weather data?

#weather #wx

I'm gonna miss Joe Castiglione's voice this year

#Odradek is the original SCP Anomalous Item

What are some more "Cassandra effect" movies? With a character who everyone thinks is crazy but is actually trying to warn them about some huge secret? "12 Monkeys" maybe?

Crap, Terminator 2 just started on TV -- am I about to watch this whole thing?

It's now been more than four years since Burger King (wisely) restored their old logo, but I could probably count on one hand the number of locations I've seen with updated signage. https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_burger_king_by_jones_knowles_ritchie.php

The first popular media property to go whole-hog on completely 100% AI-generated content will without a doubt in my mind be CoComelon

There's something so telling in the way Trump writes, that shows that he's just "playing president." When he signs off a tweet saying like, "Thank you for your attention to this matter!", it's like an "official-sounding" way of concluding a presidential "decree." It's like my older sister being the teacher and playing "school" with us when we were kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF-_Sh9u30Y

I would never claim that I work faster in #Vim than others work in their editor of choice, but at this point I definitely work faster than if I weren't using Vim.

I'd be satisfied if the reason ActivityPub succeeds over ATProto is that it's just way easier to implement.

I only just realized that if you pronounce "GIF" as "JIF," then "Giphy" is pronounced "Jiffy," which makes way more sense.

"The Studio" has allowed me to recognize a subgenre: "walking briskly to hard bop jazz drumming"

Something I don't feel like I hear people talking about is how many cool nature documentary series Apple TV+ has

"Slop" doesn't refer to all AI content, or even "ugly AI content" or "AI content I don't like."

It refers to AI content that was generated without the aim of being good, desirable, or useful, but instead was dumped onto the internet to exploit the systems that reward the mere existence of content.

An article header image that a blogger generated with AI may be bad, but it isn't "slop."

Anita X. Orcist rules #Svengoolie

The #Apple Sports app is over a year old and it doesn't have widgets.

I wish there were a white #Switch2

I think the answer is "No," but is there a Mastodon API for "posts that include this link" for trending links? This feature is in the web UI. #MastoDev #Mastodon

Anybody have the Fediverse addresses of any Ghost blogs that are federating?

Hey you can have two game saves in the #Switch2 editions of #TotK and #BotW! This means you can start from the beginning again without losing your completed game. I'm definitely playing through both of these again with the improved graphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDD7JSfhcE

We should designate an annual "donate to your Fediverse server" day

Anybody have a recommendation for an iOS weather app that has allergen info?

Yo season 2 of The Rehearsal is in like three weeks

Everything is numbered here.

The monster is zero.

Angelynn Grant subbing for John Funke on Backwoods, nobody better suited! @wmbr@mastodon.mit.edu

If things are going to be this terrible can we at least have Get Your War On back please?

What a great thing to watch Catherine O’Hara

Watching "The Studio," was optimistic about it, but it feels kind of heavy-handed?

Gnutella

eDonkey2000

WinMX

Man, listen to some of this stuff #GhostBox #Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQajnq1AGo

And here are some for their FM station, the Killer Bee, B96 #Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqmFzND_Nt8#t=147

Here are some old WBBM 780 jingles / tone logos #Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eb0VGLkpFU

The main thing in Dan Bejar's work is that it's "antagonizing"

Exterior day
Interior night
Fade
Fade
Travel light

Fiver on "Bologna" might also be the best guest vocals on a Destroyer record.

I'm only a few tracks in but this might be the best Destroyer record since Kaputt.

You know, it's like Dan Bejar doesn't know when to end a lyric anymore. At some point it just sounds like he keeps hitting the next suggestion on autocomplete, adding more and more clauses and overloading the imagery. Wrap it up, dude!

See? You can do it with anything, not just Ghibli. ("Max Fleischer's Silver Hammer")

There's nothing unique about Studio Ghibli in OpenAI's new image generator. They didn't "turn on Ghibli" while keeping all other artistic styles off-limits. A spokesperson wrote, "We continue to prevent generations in the style of individual living artists, but we do permit broader studio styles." For instance here's a raccoon in the style of HR Giger.

Again, this doesn't make any of this OK, but this isn't a deliberate, targeted attack against Miyazaki's for his harsh words against AI.

By the way you can access paywalled The Verge content with an Apple News+ subscription.

I still don’t get why nobody understands what a great value that is — the number of paywalled sites this lets you access is huge and constantly surprising me.

Wait I'm confused -- people are making it sound like the new OpenAI image tool has a "Ghibli mode" or a "Ghibli generator." But I think it's just that some people decided to add "Ghibli" to their prompts, and the results went viral, and now a lot of people are doing it?

This doesn't absolve OpenAI, of course, but this isn't as brazen a slap in the face as it was being made to sound, as though there were a big "Ghiblify it!" button in the UI.

Something that could be cool is a website that accepts an upload of an OPML file of RSS feeds, fetches all the posts from those feeds, and shows them to you. No account creation, no subscriptions. Just an ad-hoc, one-time-use-only feed reader.

New PT Anderson! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap-j8e9J5U0

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/metro/its-really-scary-students-residents-react-sudden-arrest-tufts-student/

> A man with a hoodie approaches her, then grabs her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks "Can I call the police?" before being told "We're the police."

Jesus fucking christ

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-26/tufts-international-graduate-student-taken-into-ice-custody

Maybe this is stupid but I'm a little surprised nobody said "Should we maybe not be talking about this on Signal?" Like when that Meta employee said "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right."

Because I ordered the new Destroyer album on CD directly from Merge Records, it just arrived in the mail, two days before it releases on digital platforms.

“I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans.

“I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president.”

(Gift link)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=M8TNkpFVI-W2f9Y_RC8uGaMMhe1moT_voekyz6HItfM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Ell oh fucking ell, get all the way out of here with this kind of shit

This Bro meditates and bullet-journals, and then makes YouTube videos about it.

I like keyboards, but seriously eff this keyboard.

That new astronomically expensive keyboard is called "the Seneca."

There has been a new type of Bro percolating these last couple years: the "Stoicism" Bro.

New logo and graphic identity system for #CambMA https://nimblebot.com/projects/city_of_cambridge

#Boston @universalhub@mastodon.online

The #Severance opening credits are very "Hipgnosis"

What are some people's favorite delivery places in #Boston/#CambMA that do their own delivery, not through Uber Eats etc.?

(Other than pizzerias through the Slice app.)

I feel like I can only read about Trump for five minutes at a time

Feel like pure shit just want her back

"Twisters" was the first disaster movie in 15 years to take in more than $500 million at the box office.

What was the previous one?

This is seriously one of the best pieces of UI I’ve ever seen. The actions and their implications are crystal clear.

What are some "radical" or "counter-culture" books that would have been on the shelves of every Berkeley student in, say, the early- to mid-1970s?

Kabel is having a moment and I'm feeling vindicated #typography

On April 29, the lifetime plan for #Plex is more than doubling in price, increasing from $120 to $250. If you expect to use Plex for more than two years, and you can afford it, now is the time to take that leap.

Going to see Hudson Hawk for the first time, on 35mm

The #rePebble store is up and taking preorders. As an old Pebble devotee, I desperately want one to play with, but I know I wouldn't wear it instead of my Apple Watch. https://store.repebble.com

Analogue Pocket white is back in stock: https://store.analogue.co/products/analogue-pocket-white

A deep dive into Mahmoud Khalil. I don't know why of all the horrors of the past few months, this one hits me the hardest. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.Hbcl.daMtRxdLsRP0&smid=url-share

Ok #Juxtagram really is cute and addictive as hell, and it's on sale: https://play.date/games/juxtagram/

#Playdate

I honestly have no idea what a webmention is, or how it's different from a pingback/trackback, but it sounds complicated to implement.

(I also never understood the difference between a pingback and a trackback.)

Also, thank god for the old stalwart of the blogging days, Pingbacks, through which I found this collection of observations from @mjtsai@mastodon.social: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/03/big-surs-narrow-alerts/

An 2020 analysis from @morrick@appdot.net: https://morrick.me/archives/9025

#macOS #Apple

Good job, Apple, A++, no notes

Trump is not secretly politically savvy, despite what even some of his detractors have said over the years.

He's just willing to do things nobody was willing to do before. His "savvy" is just being completely unscrupulous.

But that's weird, isn't it? Normal people don't care about it; people who actually make tech don't care about it (judging by the vibe on Mastodon). Who then is pushing this narrative that it's an essential feature in every product? Venture capital?

It is absolutely a tech-headed echo chamber belief that things need AI. Normal people do not think it's a defect of the iPhone 15 that it didn't "have AI in it." Nobody is using any of this stuff except talking to ChatGPT. It sucks to watch Apple sink its brand chasing this nonsense.

New Frog Eyes: https://frogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-open-up

#music

The world’s greatest deal-maker: Ask Putin what he wants and then give it to him.

”Nobody else could get it done except me, because they’re stupid and I’m smart.”

From @jonny@neuromatch.social, author of the incoming Mastodon “fetch all replies in thread” PR:

“As an addendum, I would say that this should be considered *expected behavior* for activitypub: the `replies` collection is a public `Collection` that is part of an actor's `outbox` and servers should expect other servers to to paginate through these, and the source servers should implement access controls accordingly.”

Cosmic horror from Flying Lotus?? https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/ash-movie-review-flying-lotus-eiza-gonzalez-aaron-paul-1235103042/

J.D. Vance wears eyeliner? Good for him, straight men should feel no shame in wearing makeup or doing other conventionally "un-masculine" things.

As David Bowie said when asked why he was wearing "a woman's dress": "It's a man's dress."

Sorry I just love Jon Hamm, I can't help it https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2025/03/-apple-tv-unveils-trailer-for-highly-anticipated-jon-hamm-led-drama-your-friends-neighbors-premiering-globally-april-11/

via @parkermolloy@masto.ai (dormant account) https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-media-treated-trumps-tesla-stunt

I wish there were a website or widget for people who don't really follow sports but would just like a vague idea of how their local teams are doing.

I still have no idea what Newsmast is

Twin Peaks (the first two seasons) is on iTunes for $13 right now.

I didn't think Crocs would last, I didn't think they'd become socially acceptable, and I certainly didn't think people would start decorating them with little charms.

First bike ride of the year!

Gang, it’s me. I’m the Fediverse Chick

Name this movie ❤️

Imagine reading this sentence ten years ago.

At first I didn't like playing #MarsAfterMidnight because it wasn't hard. But then I realized it's not supposed to *be* hard, and I began to enjoy it a lot more. #Playdate

Don't the Tubi commercials cause everyone to become unsynced? #Monsterdon

I didn’t know I had this in audiobook format until I went to sync my iPod.

#Severance

I just had a great idea. Closed captioning scrollback. Scroll back through recent closed captions without pausing or rewinding the video.

Haha if anybody did this on Mastodon they would be shot out of a cannon https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3ljqsf3tnr22a

Yeah they screwed up, but I'm glad Apple is erring on the side of *not* releasing something they know is half-baked.

Every newsroom's style guide should insist on formatting it as "the so-called 'Department of Government Efficiency'"

There is an 11,000-line Sass file in Mastodon's source: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/javascript/styles/mastodon/components.scss

Sandra Bernhard??

"The Academy Awards of course reflect what Academy voters like, but they also reveal what kind of story the voters want to tell about themselves."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/movies/sean-baker-oscars-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.yxmu.MUI9NfAE7zat&smid=url-share

#Ivory now has grouped notifications!! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Hey a new Destroyer single #music https://destroyer.bandcamp.com/track/cataract-time

Wow the new iPads Air *still* don't have Face ID. I have a lot of mileage left in my M1, so I'm in no rush to upgrade.

As someone who relies on quarters for laundry and has experienced the difficulty of getting banks to part with them, I want to "rob a bank" for an even exchange.

"ALL RIGHT, FOLKS! HERE'S A HUNDRED DOLLARS! NOW GIVE ME TEN ROLLS OF QUARTERS AND NOBODY GETS HURT"

Hey good for them, for real https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/shopping-addiction-no-buy-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.XSTE.yPhs0AaUKaI0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I have an idea for a new kind of pomodoro method, where you can do whatever you want for 25 minutes, then for five minutes you have to do nothing. Really truly nothing, just sitting quietly and unfocusing your eyes.

Conan is the only good thing we have left in this world

I am aghast -- AGHAST -- at Adrian Brody's behavior tonight

Anybody have any favorite self-hosted bookmark apps? I'm looking into #Linkding for its small footprint and active community.

I recently tried to switch from #Pinboard to #GoodLinks and I'm not super happy with it.

Does anybody else have the same sense I do that “dribs and drabs” only really became commonplace in the last 10-15 or so years? @grammargirl@zirk.us

And speaking of the #iPod Nano, this is really fun to rewatch. He refers to "the iTunes phone" here, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GRv-kv5XEg

There's an "Alien 7-Film Collection" on sale for $40 right now on iTunes

https://tv.apple.com/us/movie-bundle/alien-7-film-collection/umc.cmr.its.bun.1xhzblt676kvkyh70jads9377

Is there a book about, like, how to communicate in a remote team? How to write emails and email subjects, how to write documentation, how to effectively use group chat. I feel like we all just do these things with absolutely no guides or best practices. Something friendly, approachable, broad, and non-technical.

Do people remember that thing where Corey Feldman said he would friend you on MySpace if you sent him like $500 or something? I can't find anything about that but I swear it happened!

Sorry but there is no "Bluesky exodus" coming. Nobody cares.

I kinda hope #Slack never comes back online

Is there a Mac app that can display the width/height/dimensions of a window as I'm resizing it?

I'd love to know more about that watch, too.

Somewhat bizarrely, that single-page microsite from Last Week Tonight is running on WordPress. This could have been a single index.html with like 30 lines of CSS.

https://johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

I can't be the first one to want to talk about the similarities between #Severance and the game Portal, can I?

I really just mean like tonally and a bit thematically, not anything to do with the story.

Please enjoy this extremely groovy -- albeit musically gangly and awkward -- gem of a musical number hidden in "War of the Gargantuas" https://vimeo.com/1059572385

I don't remember where or when I ever shared this, and I apologize in advance for it https://vimeo.com/838757968

A god damn theremin, of course!

Is this Kier song written by Fief? #DungeonSynth #Severance

I haven't seen the movie in many years but I still get this song stuck in my head at times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=TfC2OatW4sQ

Do you ever find yourself writing some complex flex or grid code, only to realize, "Wait, I think...I think this might just be what `float` exists for." #CSS

Is there no way to get the timestamps of the events in a notification group in the new Mastodon grouped notifications? #MastoDev

For sale: Humane pin, never worn :'(

This is exactly what happens https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302906/cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign-terminated

Bob Balaban and Alia Shawkat??

If you're on macOS, slightly techy, and want a very easy way to download all your Amazon #Kindle books, I can strongly recommend this tool by @treetrum@mastodon.social. Uses #BunJS, super fast, even shows progress bars for the downloads!!

https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader/

We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep-beep

The idea that because they are “open,” things like Mastodon and Pixelfed do not stand to benefit from addiction to their products, and are therefore not incentivized to make their products addictive, is not tenable.

Where do people buy new DVDs/Blu-rays? I wanted a copy of American Movie so I bought it at Amoeba -- any other independent places like that with a big catalog?

With great skepticism I put on "Hundreds of Beavers" to see what all the fuss was about.

At a theater I would have absolutely walked out on this before ten minutes were up.

Maybe something like this?: https://web.archive.org/web/19961128083436/http://www8.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Information_and_Documentation/Tutorials__Demos__Talks/

Anybody recall any specific "guides to the World Wide Web"-type websites that were popular in the mid-to-late-90s?

Paul Giamatti as Art Bell in new biopic?? https://deadline.com/2025/02/radio-silence-paul-giamatti-art-bell-biopic-1236284844/

Check out this new Akzidenz-like grotesque from Latinotype: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/yankee-font-latinotype #typography

In a nearby parallel universe, #RSS readers are commonplace and as natural a part of a mobile OS's default suite of apps as a browser or email client.

An "add to reader" button in a browser, and a reader app that shows you content from websites you've added in reverse chronological order.

This was so close to being a reality for non-tech people!!

It depends on your library I guess, but Kanopy has so much great stuff on it that you could probably get away with it being your only streaming service.

Are there any good cheap boxes for long-term vinyl storage someone can recommend?

When quote-posts become baked into #Mastodon and available via the API, I hope clients stop fetching quoted posts on their own.

Part of Mastodon's implementation will be the ability for people to prevent quote-posting of their content, and to "withdraw" their posts from anywhere they were quoted.

"Faking" quote-posts by merely fetching the post object from within the client will not respect these preferences and intentions of the quoted user.

A while ago, I think it was on here that I saw it, someone posted some black-and-white profile picture/avatar illustrations they were commissioning. Does anybody remember who that was? They were kind of like "Notion-style" black outline drawings on white.

Robert Eggers is doing a Labyrinth sequel??? https://deadline.com/2025/01/robert-eggers-labyrinth-sequel-sony-1236265010/

I have an idea for getting rid of the camera bump:

Make it the entire back of the phone.

Has anybody talked about the possibility that it's easier to get trapped in a cycle of checking things on your phone because the screen is so small?

On a large desktop monitor it's easier to feel like you've seen everything and it's all taken care of. Nearly everything important can be visible at once. "Yep, there's my mail, there's my social media, there's the project I've been working on. That's it!"

Let me try out this analogy on you:

A font is to a typeface as a CD is to an album.

If someone said "Oh, I love this CD!", they might then say, "Well, I guess what I mean is that I love the *album*; the CD is just how we're listening to it."

I keep seeing Content about the SNL 50th anniversary show and at this point it always makes me go "you mean it hasn't happened by now?"

What is a "safdie brother," and how do I know if that's what I found in my yard

Mastodon should allow filters to be applied to trending news, too.

Grouped notifications in Ivory TestFlight!!

(To the tune of "Owner of a Lonely Heart")

🎶 Killing of a sacred deer

Has any artist/photographer tried re-creating AI images, like, "in-camera"?

Put heavy make-up on someone, dress them in a shirt that just looks cut a little wrong, prosthetically mold a false sixth finger onto their wrist, use a tiny depth of field...

Nobody has ever felt as invincible as Trump does right now.

Multiple-choice polls on Mastodon shouldn't give results as percentages of all checkmarks, with all options adding up to 100%; it should give results as the percentage of respondents who checked each option.

So if there is a poll between A and B; half the respondents pick both; and the other half pick only B; the results should be A: 100%, B: 50%.

When I was young, the commercials were the only thing I liked about the Super Bowl. Now they may be the thing I like the least.

Holy shit somebody did it -- they made a Flying Toasters screensaver clone that works on modern #macOS: https://github.com/robertventurini/FlyingToasters

Can we have an acronym for "that was an autocorrect but it was funny so I'm deciding to keep it"?

The only alternative to dying is living forever, which honestly sounds way way WAY worse.

This is a great overview of everything that's been going on the last week or so. At some point every sentence is more terrifying than the last. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.xhE4.ck6UnxiB2l4_&smid=url-share

Nobody ever made a CD player that scrobbles over WiFi, did they? I think WiFi was becoming ubiquitous just as CD players were being universally discarded.

Would be so cool, though! I'd almost be less surprised to find a *turntable* that scrobbles, these days.

"has Oliver Platt in it" is a genre

It's always a little goofy when a science fiction show/movie tries to have a punk band railing in earnest against some fictional sci-fi villain.

I know I heard this last year but somehow forgot to keep listening to it. This is great stuff. https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/album/messages-to-god

“While you frame this as a conflict about ambition, I hear you wrestling with a profound question: What defines a life well lived?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/well/mind/ask-the-therapist-gottlieb-hard-work.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU4.EkDA.eIercIQvrsA6&smid=url-share

As much as I've read about BotW and TotK, I've never really seen anybody talk much about the style of their art. They eschew the polygons-and-textures look for these painterly, comic-like swaths of color. And while I don't play a lot of video games, I haven't even really seen it imitated.

I need to read an article whose title is "An art expert talks about the paintings in 'Severance'"

You're allowed to complain about something that defies credulity in a sci-fi story if the question you're asking isn't "How did they do that?", but "Why did they do that?"

I bought a CD on eBay. It just arrived in an Amazon box, with a gift receipt, along with six metal rings -- evidently for horse bridles -- also with gift receipts.

The only possible explanation is that the eBay seller didn't even possess the CD. They sent it as a gift to me from Amazon, and added the 75¢ rings to hit the free shipping minimum.

And I paid way more on eBay than I would have on Amazon.

HTML and CSS mostly use American spellings (`color` vs `colour` for instance), which is partly why `aria-labelledby` -- whose double "l" is "rest of the English-speaking world"-ian -- always confuses me. I'm always writing `aria-labeledby`.

Sometimes Meg Baird comes on unexpectedly and I remember how much I absolutely adore her https://megbaird.bandcamp.com/album/cross-bay

Almost went to the theater to see The Substance again on a big screen tonight, having already seen it in September, it's that good.

[normal person, posting to Mastodon] "I just discovered XYZ, it's so great!”

[all of Mastodon, in a single resounding chorus] “Oh, you shouldn't be using XYZ.”

ABBA are so fucking good

Is there any Mastodon-like ActivityPub software that auto-fetches replies from unfollowed accounts? I'd love to just host my own instance, but I hate that it means you don't see so much content. Does #GoToSocial do this?

Drop Amazon, drop Meta (gift link): https://wapo.st/3PMU1xT

New Mogwai day: https://mogwai.bandcamp.com/album/the-bad-fire

Another huge recommend, maybe I'm out of touch for not knowing about this already https://soundcloud.com/mothercain/perverts?in=mothercain/sets/perverts-2

You can rely on my meaning it when I say: Check this shit out! https://importantrecords.com/products/agartha-personal-meditation-music

"eBay" is such a great name because it's like a bay, but electronic

I might buy a Steam Deck JUST so I can play Portal again. Unless anybody knows how to get it running on a Mac.

I had no idea the "Goonies™ 'R' Good Enough" music video was a whole-ass movie -- with a part 2! https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=VhPujiA9BRY

OMG #switch2 #nintendo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ

For sale: baby shoes, feet included

There appears to be a viral copypasta going around Discord saying that Discord's email has been compromised and that phishing emails are being sent from their real email servers, signed with DKIM and SPF etc.

I'm really skeptical that this is true; I don't see any news stories about this. Anybody know anything about this?

There are few thrills like finding an un-Shazamable song

Just want to re-recommend this amazing Mac app, Music MiniPlayer, which recreates the old brushed-metal iTunes floating miniplayer. Such a delight, it's free but I'm gonna "Buy him a coffee" now because I just opened it and smiled. https://marioaguzman.github.io/musicminiplayer/

#RSS feeds often have categories and tags in their XML. Are there any feed readers that use this info? Why not let me browse all my downloaded content by tags?

I did not expect to watch all 45 minutes of this, but I did and I loved it. It takes you on a journey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMZPlIufA0

"Vespertine" still just puts me in a headspace that no other album does

I like to be an early adopter, because often an opt-in feature is where things are headed anyway and it's fun to toy around with new ideas.

But the "group by sender" feature in iOS Mail categories needs a lot of work.

In the film adaptation of "Cats," instead of using CGI that will look dated in two weeks, couldn't they have just used...I don't know... COSTUMES??

just absolutely blasting some bill callahan over here

Anybody have a mnemonic for remembering how to spell "hors d'oeurves"? That "oeu" gets me every time.

I've played BotW and TotK for over 400 combined hours now.

I still think possibly my favorite thing about it is the deconstructed Legend of Zelda theme reprise when riding your horse. When the violin comes in with that nearly 30-year-old melody at half the tempo it just blows my mind.

"Image Playground" is truly one of the dopiest things Apple has released in recent years.

The color grading on "Carol" is just bonkers

There's a Miller commercial where a guy is playing "Deck the Halls" by striking a series of beer bottles that emit specific pitches.

The note from the last bottle is flat, so he drinks from it, and the pitch *rises*.

This is not difficult to get right!!

There's a lot wrong with the Cybertruck, but one thing I never hear people asking about it is, what the hell is "cyber" about it??

The Hyrule of BotW and TotK is roughly 31 square miles, about the size of Miami.

Pulled my copy of "Here Come the Warm Jets" off the shelf and the CD case is empty, I hate it when that happens

#RowbotRally is just about a perfect #Playdate game -- true pixel art; a novel, clever, and meaningful use of the crank; pick-up-and-playable; in-game leaderboards. It's masterful. It's not cheap as Playdate games go, but I really recommend it: https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/

"The Gremlins Duology"

Few people make me wish I *were* them as much as Cate Blanchett does

Because the Switch 2 will play Switch 1 games, will that mean the quality will be improved on those games? The waving banners in TotK flutter at like 2fps.

Anybody have any recent favorite point-and-click games?

This is a free, 4.9-star, editor's choice game that has no in-app purchases and doesn't collect any personal data. What?? #WereCleaner https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-werecleaner/id6478448519

"Time Enough at Last" always makes it into these #TwilightZone marathons, but I don't really care for it that much, I think it's in the B pile for sure.

People who are old enough will remember that if you texted or called people at midnight on New Year's Eve in the early 2000s, *you might not get through* because the cell networks were so overloaded. Sometimes you'd get an SMS hours after it was sent.

Crazy to me that you can't send "Happy birthday" or "Congratulations" or "Happy new year" in iMessage without an "effect" being added. This is automatic and there is no way to disable it.

You could turn off iMessage and send these as SMS/RCS messages, I suppose, but that's a pain in the ass.

The freaky rise of AI horrorcore https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/65760/1/freaky-rise-of-ai-horrorcore-will-smith-root-people-dongcrawlers

Whoa there is a recipe-sharing webapp using #ATProto: https://bsky.app/profile/recipe.exchange/post/3ldmgaozkhk2m

I'm having major Baader-Meinhof with the Fugu fish

Fill in the blank: "______ is like CocoMelon for adults."

I said to a friend the other day that the hipster was not one thing: there were (very roughly) "cocaine hipsters" (Parliament Lights and LCD Soundsystem) and "pot hipsters" (American Spirits and Devendra Banhart) -- and others, I'm sure, that differ from and overlap with these.

But I was always uneasy about the "cocaine hipsters," myself.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/26/2010s-indie-sleeze-music-culture

What gall to name a song "THE CHRISTMAS SONG."

I love the bustle of the holidays, and I love seeing my loved ones all month, but I am so glad to be in my own cozy apartment with no long-distance travel in the near future.

Bruce Hornbies and A Range

18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18/

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist a book by Liz Pelly https://bookshop.org/p/books/mood-machine-the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of-the-perfect-playlist-liz-pelly/21580625?ean=9781668083505)

Apple, bring Cover Flow back to iOS, cowards

I can't overstate how much of an impact it has had on my mental wellbeing to keep a reusable travel packing list on my phone. I check off everything I either don't need or have packed, and I can know I didn't forget anything. I'm not running through a mental checklist on the way to the airport.

"Run Rudolph Run" is one of the most well-known songs to contain a lyric about urination

I've got to get home

Say, what's in this comb

Me: "I forgot to mention one little thing: a ring."

Santa: "Oh you mean like on the phone?? ;P"

Spotify is stuffing their playlists with cheap factory-farm music to avoid paying artists.

Soon people will be listening to AI music without even knowing or caring.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

Wow I had totally forgotten about the whole #DaShareZ0ne debacle. What ever came of that? Did we ever learn exactly what happened?

Back in the 1960s, You Bought Your Christmas Music at the Tire Store https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42257785/goodyear-firestone-tire-christmas-record/

If you're looking for a wildly different Christmas record this year: Dick Hyman and the Organ Orchestra - That Happy Christmas Feeling (1959)

https://open.spotify.com/album/77XZ5RZpbDvfQq6ayuw67M

#music

Wow people made quick work of knocking me out of the top spot on Short Circuit on #RowbotRally #Playdate https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/

I can't believe I'm saying this

But I might rewatch Gilmore Girls

I challenge you to do a "three-finger swipe undo" in Mail without also selecting a message.

Even four-finger swipe app switching on iPadOS seems to register taps for me.

Wow The Soft Bulletin just turned 25.

I'm delighted that The Substance has five Golden Globe nominations, including best picture: https://goldenglobes.com/film/the-substance/

There's a #WordPress plugin for changing all YouTube embeds to "youtube-nocookie" embeds: https://github.com/wpexplorer/wp-youtube-nocookie/blob/main/wp-youtube-nocookie.php

Civilization VI is on sale on Steam for $2.99 right now.

Why is there so much teal and orange in AI imagery?

Christmas will always make me miss Brian O’Donovan now #Boston #GBH @gbhnews@mastodon.social

Wow Portishead's "Dummy" turned 30 this August.

What's the difference between Ghost Box and Belbury Music?

Anywhere here's a new thing from them: https://belburymusic.greedbag.com/buy/prismatics/

#music

Corporate training modules are like:

You find a USB drive on the floor by the elevator. What should you do?

A. Mount it to your work laptop to see if there is any Bitcoin on it.
B. Throw it away. It probably isn't important anyway.
C. Give it to someone in IT and explain where you found it.
D. Promptly swallow it while nobody is looking.

"Only Murders in the Building" just makes me so happy that Steve Martin and Martin Short got to do one last relevant thing that people like in the last quarter of their lives.

I wish there were still someplace that did a "Cool Site of the Day" like Yahoo used to

Has anyone confirmed that this "AI poopoo peepee podcast" actually was created with AI? The voices sound so natural, with all the inhales and inflections, and the dialog is so perfect.

The only giveaway for me is that they mispronounce (?) "dadaism" as "daydayism."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4BP4V1R8?

"Fedified" was always so vicariously embarrassing to me. Like it's the ultimate desperation for a check mark to just get someone else to put the link on their meaningless domain.

If you loved Espers or Josephine Foster & the Supposed, you absolutely need to hear this record: https://nighttimes.bandcamp.com/album/keeper-is-the-heart

#music

In Regis Philbin's 2005 rendition of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," he starts losing it and introduces Rudolph to Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees.

(Also a certain vile president-elect makes an appearance, so listen with caution.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8YivKZrOno?

When GitHub is down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wbL88f4gI

Haven't listened to this in an eternity, god damn. Just think about this record. https://fatcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finally-we-are-no-one

Am I crazy? A Topre keyboard for ~$150? I thought you had to spend at least $200 to get these switches. I've been dying to try Topres forever. https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/topre-realforce-r3s-tkl-wired

This is incredible work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBNYalWEZU

I'm an insufferable purist but I have to admit I enjoy this cover. It modernizes the song while retaining its spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-n3s6SD2U?

Hallmark rom-coms reuse so many of the same actors, is there an online shipping community that thinks up as-yet unrealized pairings and argues about them?

Who's that comic who plays a coach in those new Geico commercials

The most unbelievable thing about Home Alone is that Kevin kept dressing himself up in cute little sweater ensembles.

> And don’t tell me about enshittification, that is a thought-terminating cliche that does not actually perform useful or interesting analysis and is little more than the new “just use linux” of annoying Fediverse reply guys.

https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity

@phire@phire.place via @kissane@mas.to

Can iOS apps choose to lower the iPhone display's refresh rate? Could Libby for instance run at 1Hz when not turning pages?

Don't forget there are a lot of great magazine subscription deals on Black Friday, too.

What's the easiest way to play Q*bert in 2024?

Red Line Now Slow Zone-Free for the First Time in At Least 20 Years #Boston #CambridgeMA #MBTA https://www.mbta.com/news/2024-11-25/red-line-now-slow-zone-free-the-first-time-least-20-years

I can't believe those NFL coaches let the football boys play with their iPads so much. It's a beautiful day! They should be on the field playing with their friends.

I'm thinking I might want to hear sounds from my Raspberry Pi occasionally -- just like beeps or something, not music -- and I'm wondering what is the absolute dirt-cheapest dinky 3.5mm speaker I can get?

They're playing Cocteau Twins at this Shake Shack

If I were a woman I would go on at least one blind date with a green ribbon tied around my neck

Bluesky is fine but one thing it lacks is Algorithmic Fanfares

Don't sleep on this https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/rain-on-the-road

One of my favorite lines in any movie is when Marge Gunderson says, "There's more to life than a little money, y'know." And after a long pause, she says: "Don't you know that?"

Still the absolute GOAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nkpkg_sL8?

The first new Fief in five years #music #DungeonSynth https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/vi

lol holy shit the Spatial Audio version of Magnolia Electric Co. sounds like shit

Whoa, listen to this https://geologist.bandcamp.com/album/a-shaw-deal

#WBUR appears to have a new logo but I can't find any articles about it. Anybody know anything about this? #Boston #BostonUniversity

I love this so much: https://ben-mini.github.io/2024/img-0416

TIL this is the mouse John Gruber uses: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyboards-and-mice/mice/4y50x88822

It's very cute how all these new people on Bluesky think they're not just going right back to Twitter as soon as they stop feeling mad

Oh my god it's a god damn Shaggs for the 21st century https://numerogroup.com/products/summer-2000-y2k-25th-anniversary-edition

I made a UserScripts stylesheet that will blur and grayscale photos of Trump (false positives and negatives likely): https://gist.github.com/jsit/a47aae03d7f4781d3c464b6db25a0faa

I spent a bunch of time this afternoon writing a theme / style for the macOS #IRC app #Textual: https://github.com/jsit/California #TextualIRC

Guild Builds: Games for you to play while we are on strike https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/

Gosh, which newspaper was it that was constantly uncovering Trump's misdeeds during his first term? I wonder if now would be a good time to consider financially supporting that work. Just can't remember who it was...

There really could not have been a better time for this new Mount Eerie record #Music https://www.pwelverumandsun.com/products/night-palace-by-mount-eerie-2xlp

Let’s not forget to be glad that there hasn’t been any violence

Spilled Mushrooms is a beautifully designed #Playdate game. Took me a while to wrap my head around, as I don’t usually play “deck building” games, but it’s so pretty to look at and listen to that I had to teach myself.

Everybody drink water and go to bed early tonight

I decided I wanted a familiar, escapist movie tonight — was gonna go with Vertigo but that led me to To Catch a Thief instead.

Remember that scene in "Ghost World" when Enid says, "Oh my god -- he just ordered a giant glass of milk!!"

That's what people sound like when they say Trump fellated a mic stand.

Whoa the #MBTA is getting an official iOS app! Currently available in TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/R2ZghSuQ

#Boston #CambridgeMA

If you're looking to take your mind off things this weekend and you have an iPad, Calvin and Hobbes books are just $10 on Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book-series/calvin-and-hobbes/id1120871492

Lack of compute power / ray tracing is not the reason the Apple TV isn't a viable gaming console. It's the damn games. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-11-03/apple-finally-finds-its-game-console-rival-with-the-new-m4-and-m4-pro-mac-minis-m31na57p

Harris will be the first female president but less remarked upon is that Walz will be the first golden retriever vice president

I had my first real-life encounter with gen z slang on Halloween when a trick-or-treater said to me -- and I am not making this up -- "skibidi toilet to your brother"

I'm willing myself into the mindset that Harris will win decisively.

If she loses, Tuesday will suck anyway, so I might as well be happy till then.

Friday the 13th Part III is the rare sequel that takes place *the day after* the previous movie ended.

#Playdate Season 2!!!

If you could recommend just *one* domain for someone to block, for reducing surveillance -- what would it be? doubleclick? fbcdn?

I'm on the Substack mobile website and I have no idea how to see what I subscribe to.

Which Mastodon apps use the new grouped notifications API?

Not an app that rolls its own grouped notifications, but one that uses the actual Mastodon 4.3 API.

In some ways I'm more afraid of a narrow Harris victory than a decisive Trump victory.

It's truly a miracle that Obsidian hasn't sold out

can someone with #genmoji access please make a "thinking jack-o-lantern" face for me, thanks

"The clipboard" is one of the oddest computing metaphors. "You store a copy of a piece of data to be used elsewhere -- you know, like the way you use a clipboard!"

I'm 5 days away from surpassing my best Wordle streak of 186 days.

I think maybe if I ever hit 365 days I'll stop playing daily.

Holy crap I haven't thought of this song in 25 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfZyzukKh8

There's no cauldron emoji?

Anybody know if there's an API for third-party apps to use #SmartScript on #iPadOS18?

#iPad #iOS18

I think I must be the only one who remembers "Right Network," the extremely short-lived far right streaming network promoted by Kelsey Grammer, and its standup comedy show "Right 2 Laugh": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMl-CztpnA

Recently, #Threads made it so that you can see replies "from the Fediverse" on a Threads post.

But I think "unlisted"/"quiet public" replies might not show up there?

I'm not cool enough to have one of those massive, noisy group texts going, but I have to imagine the summaries in Messages is going to be so great for people who do.

The new iMacs still can't be used as an external display?

crazy that our descent into authoritarianism didn't start with ideology, but with vanity

Going to a midnight showing of Frankenhooker tonight, my first time seeing it!

Still the best #Halloween song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH-Q59geylw #music

I really need to start listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees

I think you have to start out as a weirdo to want billions of dollars (at the expense of other things that make a fulfilling life), but I also suspect that having billions of dollars makes you way, way more weird.

Can't believe there's only one more Halloween before the election

Maybe I'm naive, but I take the Washington Post at their word in their reasons for not endorsing. I don't think they are doing this to get Trump elected or to evade the ire of his supporters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New Soccer Mommy *and* new Anna McClellan today #music

Why can't Google make these "Google Doodle" games into progressive web apps?

This is not really my style of music but I am fascinated by the phenomenon of "Lofi Girl". Anyhway they are doing a Halloween stream these days: https://www.youtube.com/live/z_d13tqggP4

I just realized I wish I had a Siri shortcut for "turn JavaScript off for five minutes." That's not possible, is it?

Should I seriously start using passkeys? They kinda freak me out.

The Apple TV watchlist maxes out at 100 items? I've definitely lost a lot of stuff.

Re: Trump's "exhaustion" -- I wonder if he's just got COVID. When he got it as president he couldn't really hide that fact, but now as a private citizen he could very easily just be walking around with it.

Software and websites are just getting too complex and brittle. Everything is cracking at the seams, you can feel it.

Ok it’s time for Train to Busan tonight, I’m tired of being disappointed

A movie immediately drops in my estimation if a ghost smiles and cocks its head

'Cause I'm the Tears of Kingdom Linking

It's really kind of disappointing that, the way the digital media renting/ownership balance worked out, you can't currently just buy a bundle of Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes on iTunes.

You'd have to figure out which streaming service it's currently on, then manually scroll through entire seasons of episodes till you find them.

This seems like a step backwards from what we had two decades ago.

I think I'm gonna watch Oculus tonight. I don't know why, but I've always gotten this feeling that I'll just be lukewarm on it.

I know there's no shortage of "watch this person play a video game theme on an instrument" videos, but this remains one of my favorite things on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9IkpUYlOx8

Think I'm gonna watch Tenebrae for the first time tonight

One of my favorite radio shows, celebrating 40 years on #WMBR https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/10/18/for-your-pleasure-rene-marchando-wmbr

Think I might watch this tonight https://letterboxd.com/film/the-outwaters/

Can I get a "why is my phone hot" app

This is so minor, but something I haven't heard pointed out is how weird it is the way Trump thinks of theses "levels" of psychiatric hospitals:

"Many are coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums. That’s like, you know, step above, right? Insane asylum."

He commonly does this; he'll make a point of saying that people are coming from *both* "mental institutions" *and* "insane asylums," and *then he will add* that the latter is "worse."

It's so bizarre!

Does a link become trending on #Mastodon if only *one* account posts it, but hundreds of others boost it?

Mastodon 4.3 has changed the mobile search/explore icon from a hash mark/octothorpe to a compass. Still awful.

Stop trying to cram search and "explore" into the same thing. Search should be represented by a magnifying glass, I don't make the rules.

Baffling to me that the #plushtodon is pale yellow instead of indigo

Drama aside, “Secure Custom Fields” is a terrible name. It implies the native custom fields aren’t secure and that this plugin’s main purpose is making them secure. #WordPress

A movie I don't hear people talk about enough is Deerskin https://letterboxd.com/film/deerskin/

"Body horror" is when the body *itself* is frightening, not what is being done to it

Is there an app that lets me browse my Apple Music library by record label?

(Not interested in non-Apple Music-based solutions.)

Me, owning both fake plants and real plants: "He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us."

I watched both Terrifier and Oddity today so if I don't have scary dreams then I don't know what to say

When is the last time any person listened to Hot Hot Heat

I think secretly every man thinks it would be cool if he were good at chess

Are you ever reading a particular book and you think "this is exactly the size and shape a book should be"

Here's a different way I'd love for someone to ask Vance this question:

Why are you afraid to say Donald Trump won the 2020 election if that's so clearly what you believe?

My recommendation for a spooky movie this season is "A Dark Song." I loved it and don't think I ever really hear anybody talking about it.

The URL path for #Playdate's spooky games selection is /boo

https://play.date/games/boo

Hey #Letterboxd now has a public API! I'd love to hook up #WordPress custom post types to log movie viewings and ratings -- someone should do the same with #11ty. https://api-docs.letterboxd.com

Does #Bandcamp Daily really not have any #RSS feeds?

It's a good sign for Mastodon that posts can go so viral that they needed to build grouped notifications into their new release.

I don't know if it's because I subscribe to too many podcasts or what, but the Podcasts app on #iOS18 is *so slow*.

(Do not talk to me about Overcast.)

You may have noticed SMS messages and a kind of "auto-sign-in" on sites that use Link and Shop(ify), even sites you haven't shopped at before.

This feels weirdly insidious to me, and I'm not entirely sure how they acquire your information in the first place, but you can delete your data from both services.

https://support.link.com/how-to-delete-your-saved-payment-information

https://help.shop.app/hc/en-us/articles/360058842072-Delete-your-Shop-account

I just heard "Mr. Jones" on the radio, and I was remembering what an inescapable monster hit that was when it came out.

I looked it up and it was on the Billboard radio chart for 47 weeks, making 1994 almost an entire year of "Mr. Jones."

"A QR code will appear onscreen for long stretches of the CBS telecast. Viewers who scan the code will be directed to the CBS News website, where a squad of about 20 CBS journalists will post fact-checks of the candidates’ remarks in real time."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/business/media/cbs-vice-presidential-debate-fact-check-qr.html

Trump: "It's raining cats and dogs out there!"

The frothing commentariat: "Our Trump lie counter has ticked up yet again after his bizarre and unhinged claim that animals are falling from the sky. FACT CHECK: Rain is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, with trace mineral content."

I'm watching "Get a Life" for the first time (available only on DVD, not streaming anywhere), and I'm enjoying it more than I expected.

I would love to see "no talking, please" screenings of The Room and Rocky Horror. Otherwise I will never see these in a theater.

This new Zelda game is already so stinking cute. And it's so refreshing not to have to worry about my sword breaking.

You can now get four free #COVID tests again from covidtests.gov

I enjoy that, unlike the Joker, #ThePenguin isn't quite so much an "antihero." He's a simpering, insecure weasel.

Omg this purple Maserati #ThePenguin

I don't like that sharing links in Messages in #iOS18 doesn't retain their URL string, because I often modify it to remove tracking strings.

There's a pizza place now occupying that corner location next to the Harvard Coop, open till THREE AM. This is a much needed addition to Harvard Square. #CambridgeMA

This "Vehicle Motion Cues" thing in #iOS18 is cool, but if motion sickness is the ONE thing that can keep me from looking at my damn phone, maybe I should embrace that.

Seriously two of the new "Text Effects" in #iOS18 should be "Serif" and "Script".

Do you think aliens probably invented all the same knots we did?

What are the chances X gets sold within the next five years, to some inexplicable legacy Silicon Valley company like Yahoo or Oracle or Amazon, gets renamed back to Twitter, and then dies a slow, ignoble death? Maybe interrupted once in 2029 by a Hail Mary rebrand/retooling à la Myspace in 2012.

New White Poppy: https://whitepoppy.bandcamp.com/album/ataraxia

#Music

Parking lots should require one tree for every twenty parking spaces.

Maybe the presidency shouldn't be so powerful that both parties think someone from the other party will be able to destroy the country with it.

I remember catching Killer Klowns while flipping through channels one afternoon at like age 10, and it scared the living hell out of me.

I wasn't familiar with "camp," so its whole weird goofy aesthetic made it absolutely chilling.

Harris is right to want the mics on at all times, because just imagine how the public would react if, in an unfiltered moment, Trump said something offensive or crazy!

Free Halloween costume idea: Beatlejuice

I'm really not fond of this two-step login form that's popular now, where the password field isn't exposed until you've submitted your email address. What is that about?

Andrew Huberman: showing that men will only accept mental health advice from someone who looks like a UFC fighter.

There are adult YouTube celebrities who are younger than YouTube, who have never known a world without YouTube.

In the truest sense of the word, #dungeonSynth is folk music

Just played the #RowbotRally demo on #Playdate -- very cute, very well-excuted. Can't wait for the full release!

https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/

Open source stuff is just so *tacky* sometimes.

People don't think Trump himself made those Taylor Swift images, do they??

I'm just relieved we can all stop having to wonder what Steve Kerr thinks

I'm glad Shepard Fairey made an official Harris poster so we no longer have to be subjected to the Obama-like posters people have been making for fifteen years with crummy online posterize filters and Arial Black text.

I finally found a place you can watch #Raygun's full #Olympics performance, if you have a Canadian IP (or a VPN, or yt-dlp): https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6453011

It's very good and smart that the Olympic Committee aggressively DMCAs uploaded videos but also provides no other way to watch viral Olympic moments. Just a brilliant marketing strategy: "Please don't watch us."