Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’
In the world of “1984,” not only are statistics invented, they are continually reinvented to serve the needs of Big Brother’s regime at any given moment: “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
Short update to my Now Page.
Fascinating post on the merger of Apple + NeXT.
MacRumors reporting Apple Seeds First Betas of iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 to Developers. Tempting to just wait for 26.3 if that’s going to fix OS usability.
My voice has shifted from a low murmur to a wheezy croak. Don’t think I’ll be doing karaoke any time soon.
And all the day after downloading Wavelength.
Nice idea for a scrapbook of social media
Social media is fragile, and it can disappear quickly. Sites get sold, shut down or blocked. People close their accounts or flee the Internet. Posts get deleted, censored or lost by platforms that don’t care about permanence. We live in an era of abundant technology and storage, but the everyday record of our lives is disappearing before our eyes.
I don’t trust the Internet to remember for me, so I’ve built my own scrapbook of social media. It’s a place where I can save the posts that shaped me, delighted me, or just stuck in my mind.
Still not any better. I really need this cold to shift.
First test of a podcast on the blog. Using the Hollyland M2S microphone.
Never came across anything with such incredibly bad taste as a musical about a tragedy that killed 1500 people.
None of this should be,
bursting with nostalgia, non-stop laughs
incredibly callous and inhuman.
Had to make different plans today which is a shame. I really wish this damn cold would go away.
Trialling wispr flow for voice dictation. Which is ironic considering I don’t have much of a voice at the moment.
Mark German sharing on Bloomberg that Johny Srouji is seriously considering retiring from Apple.
90’s bond movies have really dated. Watching The World is Not Enough and the script is dreadful.
Better Saturday? Nope. Still feel dreadful.
However that’s the tree decorated, so that’s done. But more importantly she’s happy, which is let’s face it is all that really matters.
Trust Emmerdale, unjustly seen as 3rd class UK soap, to run a story on modern slavery, drugs and prostitution. And it’s not over yet…
Experimenting with speech to text using a Hollyland MS2 microphone. I’ve briefly tried using whisper AI transcription apps but the preference for the AI to process my speech rather than transcribe it is beyond frustrating.
Perfect take from John Gruber on Alan Dye’s departing statement from Apple.
9to5 Mac reporting that Alan Dye departing for Meta. Will there be anyone sad to see him leave?
Really looking forward to the LLM bubble bursting. Like many people, I’m old enough to recognise a bubble when I see it. It’s just tiresome to see literally every software product, website and it seems every technology news story have an AI component or be the entire story.
Maybe she’s contagious. But it’s that time of year. Grin and bear it.
Technically 2 words, but I take their point.
‘Rage bait’ named Oxford word of the year 2025
From BBC News.
Really enjoying the excellent drama All Her Fault. Highly recommended.
Today is literally vanishing before our eyes. Blink and it will be tomorrow.
i am still moving between an iPad Mini 6, iPad Pro M4 and M3 MacBook Pro without really focusing on one device more than the other. That I am not really taxing any one of them says a lot more about me than it does about those devices.
BBC News :
Google boss warns ‘no company is going to be immune’ if AI bubble bursts
When. Not If, When.