…instead, stupid people in charge of the government and military.

Who needs a $400 million “palace in the sky” when you can have two or three dolls and a couple of pencils instead.

Somewhere along the way, The Verge stopped being a great tech news site and became one of America's most important news outlets, full stop.

“A.I. Adent” … maybe she meant “A.1. Agent”

+1 for pi-hole

Done and done.

Just quality search results. Customizable. No ads. No tracking. No hallucinations. But does have AI/LLMs available if you want them. Fast. Clean. What a search engine is supposed to be.

Another stable genius

Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today:
www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...

Most Accurate Headline of the Day 🏆

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

Stop with the gist.ai posts, please.

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s Husband of Nearly 60 Years, Dies at 82 Mr. Dean was known to shy away from the spotlight as his wife rose to fame.

Carl Dean, an asphalt paver who met his future wife, Dolly Parton, outside a Nashville laundromat more than six decades ago and quietly championed her as she rose to superstardom, died on Monday. He was 82.

Facebook messenger notification. Mark Zuckerberg invited you to their channel: Meta channel.

Ummm. Hard pass.

He would also say he won the 2020 election, so…. Maybe, he lies as easily as he breathes.

What could go wrong?

Hey Apple (yeah you aren’t here, or anywhere really, I get it), let’s at least make this #ux #design choice a good one. 3 dots, really? Maybe a down arrow/carrot as a clue this would expand to some additional UI…? No? It’s super unintuitive.

Idiocracy

Walgreens To Begin Keeping Most Valuable Employees Behind Glass

Walgreens To Begin Keeping Most Valuable Employees Behind Glass

Big news: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is stepping down. The new app debacle has led to his exit after eight months of unrelenting customer complaints.

Board member Tom Conrad is interim CEO and faces the challenge of getting Sonos back on track in 2025.

Full details: www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24...

Sonos CEO Leaving After Botched App Revamp Led to Customer Revolt Sonos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick Spence is leaving after eight years in the job, a move that follows a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth.

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving after eight years in the job, a move that follows a botched app revamp that upset customers and hindered growth

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You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill There’s no such thing as an easy weeknight meal.

You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill. “It’s not just the cooking that wears me down, but the meal planning and the grocery shopping and the soon-to-be-rotting produce sitting in my fridge.” Everything after the “but” is my daily nemesis. [theatlantic.com]

Yep understood and thank you for sharing! Just passing on the info. I’ll give it a shot later.

I tried that… no luck. Hmm

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Makes sense. @adamkinzinger.bsky.social is brilliant

Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social This might be the first great fediverse app.

I have been waiting for like two years for the app that explains the fediverse — the one that's like, "here's why decentralizing all these closed platforms is actually cool and awesome." I think Surf is going to be that app