What’s “tragic” is that Abbott keeps getting re-elected. (And Cruz. And Patrick. And Paxton.)

I wonder if he’s buying it in bulk to drive up his ranking? It’s been known to happen.

https://www.thewordling.com/2308-authors-who-bought-nyt-bestseller-list/

Hire her to erase all of your important data.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database

This sounds like total bullshit. Money runs the world. There’s plenty of “they” with money.

Maybe if you would bring back your classic models and ship them in North America you wouldn’t be having these problems.

But no, it’s multiple models of SUVs that look like everyone else’s that we need to build more of. I’m sure those will sell like gangbusters with gas at $6 per gallon.

See also the privacy-invading aggressiveness of most platforms, and the political ads and propaganda inundating people’s feeds. If social media had just remained a way to keep in touch with friends and post pictures, it would probably have remained popular.

Somewhere in the distance, you can hear Sarah Palin yelling “Drill baby drill!”

“Adorable” Finder guy completely misunderstands the meaning of the Finder icon. It’s like there’s no one left at Apple who understands or cares about any of the history or design of Apple products at this point.

The Finder icon is a classic Mac OS user icon, in profile, placed in front of a “Happy Mac” startup symbol that you would see when booting the original Mac. It’s not one person’s face. It’s a representation of the intersection of the user and their Macintosh.

So is this making “spring forward” permanent, or “fall back” permanent?

Do they actually enforce driving laws in DFW?

Last year Windows 11 was estimated at 400 million “devices”. Thats 16-17 million possible copilot users.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/it-took-almost-4-years-but-windows-11-finally-overtakes-windows-10

Surprising.

There’s some interesting commentary by his family that the “church” manipulated him into quitting after he had suffered a stroke.

https://people.com/isaac-hayes-son-claims-why-the-singer-really-left-south-park-11775955

And then opens 6000 job positions for AI salesmen. What a mismanaged hellhole.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-commits-2point5-billion-6000-employees-ai-implementation-unit.html

Will the 4800 Xbox employees that Microsoft just laid off be rehired into these positions?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/microsoft-cuts-2point1percent-of-employees-as-xbox-unit-plans-to-spin-studios.html

This is like those people who bought Meta glasses and then acted surprised when they got screwed. Did you really not expect something like this from Musk?

Pandora might already have similar infrastructure in place, if it’s still used. It’s just not exposed to the public. Once upon a time, actual human beings used to import CDs into the service and tag the songs with different descriptors. This was to help the recommendation engine build playlists around similar music. You could see some of these tags when you chose “why this song” during playback.

https://community.pandora.com/t5/My-Collection/quot-Specific-musical-qualities-quot-when-clicking-on-Why-This/td-p/190293

One thing I wish the recommendation engines took into account was the record producer. Usually when you find a song/artist you like — you’ll find similar music by looking at other albums the same producer was involved in.

Just like in Uvalde. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/05/uvalde-sheriff-constable-primary/

“earned.”

On DDG, You can send feedback about each result. I dunno if it actually does any good.

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