In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.
oh, ha, interesting!
Also it's a public holiday in the city and so some people have the day off en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot...
I believe the original idea was something like: Sox start at 11am, the marathon at 12pm, and when the game finished about 2pm, fans could go right outside and watch the marathoners. It had a certain logic to it.
A few years ago they moved the race to 9am but I guess the Sox didn't want to change
the penne opticon
Happy Patriots' Day (marathon day) to all who celebrate!
Why do you hate freedom?
Reuters investigates Tesla's tax avoidance. Excellent records analysis & by Tom Bergin and Chris Kirkham -- www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
Jenna Bush Hager sits down with former Presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Four photos, each showing Jenna Bush Hager with a former US president: Obama, Bush, Biden and Clinton.
Eat your heart out, Andy Warhol
New @nbcnews.com poll:
33% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Iran war.
67% disapprove.
A majority “strongly disapprove.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.
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Alternate spelling of “Aya Toll Booth” courtesy of @admiralstav.bsky.social here: www.thedailybeast.com/us-admiral-t...
Will the term "Ayatollahbooth" catch on?
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
Woe unto those who broke BlueSky today.
Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"
Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."
oh man that Succession-style theme song...
... the same Linda Yaccarino who is maybe going to be interviewed by French authorities next week re her decisions at X? www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... (near the end)
brought to you by the CEO of eMed ... Linda Yaccarino.
allbirdsgpt: you're abshoelutely correct
Screenshot from NBC News story: “Apple reviewed the next submissions made by the developers, and determined that X had substantially resolved its violations, but the Grok app remained out of compliance. As a result, we rejected the Grok submission and notified the developer that additional changes to remedy the violation would be required, or the app could be removed from the App Store,” Apple wrote.
SCOOP at @nbcnews.com: Back in January, Apple privately threatened to remove the Grok app from the App Store.
"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations." @davidingram.bsky.social keeping tabs:
Scoop from @davidingram.bsky.social -- Apple threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over sexualized deepfakes before xAI restricted some of its features
In a letter viewed by NBC News, Apple said it found both X and Grok in violation of its guidelines
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Screenshot from NBC News story: “Apple reviewed the next submissions made by the developers, and determined that X had substantially resolved its violations, but the Grok app remained out of compliance. As a result, we rejected the Grok submission and notified the developer that additional changes to remedy the violation would be required, or the app could be removed from the App Store,” Apple wrote.
SCOOP at @nbcnews.com: Back in January, Apple privately threatened to remove the Grok app from the App Store.
