Jarrod Blundy
Ever since I started doing these live shows from WWDC, I’ve kept the guest(s) secret, until showtime. I’m still doing that this year. But in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.
I’m so curious if Apple had declined before or after Gruber wrote ‘Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino’. Either way, rotten indeed.
I had the pleasure of guiding Bill and Bev up Mt. Marcy for them to reach the top of New York State for their high point journey! We lucked out with incredible weather with spectacular views clear across to Vermont. Bill regaled us with tales of their climbs across the world. He and Bev are so impressive and dedicated, showing us how it’s done into their 70s. I can’t wait to hear about their next adventures, including Mont Blanc this fall. Wow!
@rockandriver_official
Tom and I nabbed the rest of the Dix Range (Dix and Hough) yesterday to tick his 27th and 28th high peaks! The weather was glorious, though the black flies are officially out in full force. But even those little buggers couldn’t keep the smiles off our faces as we traversed that gorgeous range. We summited via the Beckhorn trail and then went down Lillian Brook for a 12.5 mile day in just about 11 hours.
Big thanks to Curt, a volunteer herd path maintainer who we met on top of Hough and who was continuing to clear the significant blowdown in the range!
@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide
Looks like Mac Virtual Display uses Sidecar tech from the iPad. You can’t connect to both the Vision Pro and iPhone Mirroring at the same time.
Tom and I only planned on hiking Macomb, but it was so nice that we went out to South Dix and Grace Peaks as well! He’s well on his way to becoming a #46er with these being 24-26/46 summits for him. Great way to spend the 133rd anniversary of the Adirondack Park. 👌
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I’d love to see an org chart of how people and responsibilities flow between OpenAI, Lovefrom, and io. Sounds like some folks are heading directly to OpenAI via io (Hankey, Tan, Cannon), while Ive remains independent yet oversees all design at OpenAI’s via LoveFrom. It’d make an excellent Decoder.
🔗 Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year:
Accessibility Reader is a new systemwide reading mode designed to make text easier to read for users with a wide range of disabilities, such as dyslexia or low vision. Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, Accessibility Reader gives users new ways to customize text and focus on content they want to read, with extensive options for font, color, and spacing, as well as support for Spoken Content.
I have high hopes that this will be a big upgrade to the ‘Speak Screen’ and ‘Speech Controller’ features.
Finished reading: Brian’s Hunt by Gary Paulsen 📚
Thus ends the Hatchet Adventure series. They sure do make you want to escape to the woods.
Om Malik blogs about censorship being a core goal in Chinese AI development:
Pete’s assessment suggests that Chinese authorities have shifted their focus from simply blocking information to creating sophisticated models that provide alternative narratives. You can’t filter these models, for they have finessed and developed evasion techniques and thus will be offering alternative sanitized versions of history that align with government narratives. This represents a fundamental shift from previous censorship approaches.
The sinking feeling in my gut tells me it won’t only be that government.
What a pleasure it was to help Shane review technical skills ahead of his Single Pitch Instructor exam! I should have taken more pics, but we were too busy practicing belayed rappels, knots and hitches, rescue techniques from above and below, creative anchors with limited gear, and much more.
I love hearing from climbers that it’s mastering the skills that they value most. That they want to feel more confident and competent when cragging with their friends, even if they never formally instruct with their certification. Climbers looking out for one another — this community rocks. 🤘
Thanks, Shane, for a great day and smiling through the rain!
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I had the pleasure of guiding Tom up his 22nd and 23rd High Peaks this past week. That’s makes that 19 we’ve summited together! The weather wasn’t certain it was going to give us great views, but it smiled upon us in the end.
And the mountain gifted us with some rare trailside wildlife sightings — a fox and a snake! These mountains give and give.
@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide
Finished reading: Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen 📚
Finished reading: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 📚
I’m enjoying going back through books I loved as a kid. This is one that shaped me.
Jason Kottke shared another platform-agnostic music linking service with a catchy name, but my favorite is album.link. It’s more full-featured, and has a great URL. (And does songs and podcasts too.)
🔗 Trump illegally fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission:
On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly removed the three sitting Democrat appointees on the five-person U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission – the independent watchdog agency that issues recalls and regulates everyday products, including consumer electronics. With no apparent cause for removal, the firings violate existing Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1935, as did Trump’s removals of the Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) back in March.
It feels hopeless when nothing comes of it.
My short but wild ride reading this @matt@isfeeling.social article:
“Nice, Matt’s found a new font!”
“Wait. No, he likes a new game.”
“Wait. No. He likes a new show that sounds like a game!”
“Oh wait, he did find a new font.” 🤣
John Siracusa makes another Apple stalwart critiquing how it’s lost its way, and he’s calling for new leadership:
The best leaders can change their minds in response to new information. The best leaders can be persuaded. But we’ve had decades of strife, lawsuits, and regulations, and Apple has stubbornly dug in its heels even further at every turn. It seems clear that there’s only one way to get a different result.
In every healthy entity, whether it’s an organization, an institution, or an organism, the old is replaced by the new: CEOs, sovereigns, or cells. It’s time for new leadership at Apple.
