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Google has revealed the Pixel 9 Pro following a series of leaks that revealed the phone in great detail, including hands-on videos and comparisons to other recent devices.
I’ve been a fan of the Pixel’s camera bar design for years, but this just looks all wrong. Weird proportions, and it really should be a round-rect.
On the plus side, if Google’s design looks this bad now, I think it opens the door for Apple to do a better version without it being a rip-off. 🙏
🔗 Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites) — Sara Joy
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your site. The most interesting websites don’t even have an introduction, never mind any blog posts. Some of the most interesting web sites I enjoy just are.
What fun! Sara’s excellent blog post is further enhanced by Robb’s and Keenan’s video/voiceover shenanigans. Love it. 🧡
🆕📝 Jeff Perry: ‘It is time to slow down’
For the biggest news event in a while, my old habits had been broken without me even realizing.
A couple of injuries have set me back this summer, and have served as a cruel reminder about how dependent my line of work is on me being strong and healthy. It’s got me bummin’.
📺 As far as sci-fi “what if” series go, Dark Matter is way up there with Severence in my opinion. I’m a couple episodes from the end and simply riveted.
I don’t mention it often, but I do have some fun (I think, you decide) t-shirts for sale. You can get free shipping on them today with code HBDCB11! heydingus.net/store
A Wi-Fi network I saw at work yesterday. 😂
I’ve never seen this data detector before. On iOS 17 it recognized I was being asked for a photo, so clicking on “picture” opens the photo picker. Nice!
🍿 Just watched: Flora and Son on Apple TV+
🍿 Just watched: Sharper on Apple TV+
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Do your imperfect best every day to learn about other people’s struggles. Listen to your friends who are POC or LGBT. Listen to your mom, wife, daughter and female co-workers. Try to put yourself in spaces where you can grow your understanding. Making a better world starts with you because it is an inside job.
Clever title; important message.
You know that sinking feeling you get when you know something bad is about to happen?
Supreme Court Rules That Presidents Have Absolute Immunity for “Core Constitutional Powers”
From Justice Sotomayor’s dissent:
Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.
Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
Gulp
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I need to shower, start laundry, do chores, start work, get the day moving forward. Where is the pause button? I’m competent and I can do so much but I don’t want so much to do. I want to sit here longer, to move unhurried, to glide, to breathe, to be ordered but not scheduled, to release into reverie, to let my mind wander, my shoulders loosen, my being melt and flow with curiosity, delight, warmth, ease.
Preach it, Annie.
This is fun!
A return to your regularly-scheduled links. 🙂
Apple chose all my favorite iPhone models for their repair timeline!
Whoop whoop! Some notable improvements coming for the Meta Ray-Bans. 3x longer videos (1 minute was just too short), and smoother conversations with the AI about what it can see. 😎
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #560: ‘I Don’t Like It When I’m Disappointed’
Jumping into Clockwise, "the tech podcast that uses half an hourglass for timekeeping", with my own answers and opinions that no one asked for.
I love release notes that make me chuckle. 🤭
If this whole gross spectrum of behavior seems familiar to you, it’s probably because AI shares a certain DNA with crypto, NFTs, and the blockchain in that they are all trendy, usually touted by people you wouldn’t want to be stuck in an elevator with and, in a weird coincidence, all happen to drive up both Nvidia’s stock price and worldwide temperature averages. The Macalope doesn’t consider himself someone prone to conspiracy theories, but he would not be surprised to find out years from now that Nvidia has been running a powerful psychological ops campaign that dreams up technologies that require its boards to run and then convince venture capital firms to invest in them.
Great writing. 🤣
🔗 AI is a mess and Apple is here to clean it up // The Macalope // macworld.com
📺 Finished watching: Sugar (2024) on Apple TV+
Goodness, Colin Farrell nailed his role here. Enthralling from start to end. And the twists kept things interesting. Great addition to the ATV+ lineup, and I’m hoping for a second season.
Half-drunk now. AMA 😉
I’d recognize that corner radius anywhere. IYKYK
Where do you fall on the spectrum from Over-sharing to Under-sharing? For me, the amount I want share seems to depend entirely on (1) How comfy I feel in my current “situation”, and (2) If I’m in that sweet spot of buzzed-but-not-quite-drunk-yet. Guess which ones I’m at now.
I’m a sucker for any live performer who includes “Valerie” in their set list. 👌