I despise the way Meta is washing their hands of content moderation—and have to think they love that it’s “Meta” in the headlines, not “Facebook” or “Instagram”—but I like that a site like MacStories can choose to stop using them as a result.
These cold call emails with a “private video looking at your website” where it’s so obviously a mashed up quick screen recording of someone at my website with generic sales pitch video are why I hate sales and don’t trust anybody. 😆
From my archives (way back in… 2020?) - I still get a kick out of seeing someone watch / hear U2 for the first time.
And that she picked a concert video filmed in Ireland, at Slane Castle, a few days after Bono’s dad passed away just adds to energy of the crowd and band.
It feels so bizarre to look out my window and see a white, frozen arctic tundra landscape while I also read and see the devastation being caused by wildfires in California. Hope friends out west stay safe and are able to evacuate if needed, with minimal damage to homes.
New blog post: My Social Media Timeline. It’s nothing particularly new in thought, just my annual(ish) reflection on time spent in the social media waters.
I was listening to The Daily’s episode on Justin Trudeau stepping down and they ended by implying that progressive politics is on the way out… which felt like a weird way to frame a world still reverberating from the effects of a global pandemic we haven’t dealt with.
Aside from a search engine of some sort, what’s a website or two that you still visit directly in the browser? i.e. you don’t search for it, don’t read it via RSS or social media link - you type or have a bookmark to go directly to it?
I haven’t been getting proper notifications from lots of apps on my iPhone for a while now… other than text messages, everything else is a crap shoot of reliability.
Is wiping and reinstalling still a good option to try and reset an iPhone or is this just the state of iOS apps in 2025?