Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Two things happened to Siri this week that have nothing to do with each other on paper and everything to do with each other in practice. Siri AI — the "new" Siri that shipped with iOS 27 — is rolling out wider, still labeled beta, still gated behind a waitlist. And this same week, notices started going out for the $250 million settlement over the Apple Intelligence promises made back in June 2024. Apple is now simultaneously shipping the thing…

It's taken a while to get around to it, but I've finally painted this 1:144 scale Fokker Eindekker.Now it's ready to go out and shoot down that BE12. Or maybe get shot down by it. It could happen. It's FDM printed on my Ender 3, and the undercarriage needed substantial post-printing repairs.

David Pogue runs Siri through 125 tests: Also, this is ethical AI: It deceives nobody, puts nobody out of work, and draws 100% of its power from renewable sources. To which John Gruber writes: I keep doing things manually, then thinking “Hey, I should have tried that with Siri…”, trying it again with Siri after the fact, and realizing only then that Siri accomplished the thing. I stopped using Siri so long ago I forgot it exists. My iPhone 13 mini doesn’t support Siri AI and I’m sure I won’t…

Set up a proper bookshelf today, so all our books – including my photo books – finally moved out of the closet and into the open.

Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/solitaire-alone-together

So I've been kind of numbed out lately. Mostly unconscious, living in my head type nonsense, but some of it has been intentional because the 'going back to work' of it all has poked a few holes in my calm and cool exterior. I haven't blown a gasket, but Nan has been pretty pissed under the surface. I'm still enjoying myself, but some people need to get it together, with love. But other than those few moments of rage, it's been mostly numbness and that's always just so lovely. I love that so…

Figure 1. Reproduction of Arizona Republican article from September 21, 1926, page 8.¹ September, 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Arizona’s admission into the federal birth and death registration areas. The last step needed for admission was a survey that, according to the Census Bureau, demonstrated that Arizona’s system of collecting vital statistics captured at least 90 percent of the state’s births and deaths (see FIgure 1). But did the survey really demonstrate that level of…

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For the second time in a week, The New York Times set everyone chattering with an education article. First, it was the dubious idea that California should turn its elite colleges into diploma mills. Someone actually wrote, in the paper of record, “Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates.” Here’s Kelsey Piper on that. This time it was a reflective article from Nikole Hannah-Jones revisiting, and questioning, the school…

I bought one of those fancy new iPhones last weekend. Not the Duo those are too expensive and I really don't like foldable smartphones. I upgraded my 14 pro to an 18 pro and I am very pleased with it so far. The battery life was what I mostly wanted it for and it excels in that front. The fast charging is amazing and it really just lasts!! I'm a heavy phone user I'll admit and my 14 pro just wasn't up to the task. The new cameras I haven't messed with too much yet but the zoom lens is really…

In 2025, I read the The Secret History of the Five Eyes, about how the US, UK, Australian, Canadian & New Zealand spy agencies came to work together on intelligence gathering. Fascinating to me were the stories of William Stephenson, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster and Camp X, a WW2 paramilitary / covert agent training facility just outside of Toronto. Looking at a map, the former Camp X facility is on Lake Ontario, not too far from the Oshawa GO train station. And…

Disney have decided to end Daredevil: Born Again after its third season airs in early 2027. The show completed shooting several months ago.Daredevil, starring Charlie Cox as the titular Man Without Fear and Vincent D'Onofrio as his arch-nemesis, Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, originally aired three seasons on Netflix in 2015, 2016 and 2018, with the character also playing a key role in The Defenders in 2017. With the Netflix-Marvel deal ending in 2020, it was assumed that was it. However, the character…

Today I am sharing a few photos I have taken in the Superstition and Four Peaks Wilderness areas (near Phoenix, Arizona). While the desert frequently displays vibrant colors, sometimes I feel like black and white photos provide an appropriate gravity to the landscape. Hope you enjoy! cc all photos by Jeff Delp On the trail to Massacre Ridge, Superstition Wilderness. Saguaro and cholla with Four Peaks in the distance. Two saguaros, battered by heat and fire, keep watch in the Four Peaks…

🗺️ My maps have broken on my site and I need to fix them. Truth is, it didn't just happen this week. But blockage was inconsistent enough where I wasn't sure if it was actually broken or a transient error. The mapping code hasn't changed in years, so will be a good one for me to dive into and upgrade while I'm there. ☔️ A typhoon came and went. It skirted along Tokyo and dumped 2.5x the usual monthly totals of rain in 24 hours. While we were fine, this amount of rain isn't normal. Naturally it…

Okay, we are back from town, and were done with the truck way earlier than expected. As we pulled into the parking lot at the garage, we saw a truck pulling out and leaving. Then we found the doors locked! It turned out we had just watched the owner leaving to drop someone off. Which … Continue reading Good news… mostly?

Cybertron, the metallic homeworld of the peace-loving Autobots for untold millennia. A brutal civil war is unleashed when the maniacal Megatron forms an army of power-hungry Decepticons and tries to convert Cybertron into a mobile battle station to conquer the galaxy. Although he is stopped, Cybertron is shaken loose from its orbit and sent hurtling through space. A thousand years later, the planet is threatened with destruction in an asteroid field. The Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, leads a…

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I just noticed Restack in Amp. This is a pattern I have been using quite a bit, but more manually.I have found that every once in a while, a feature working with agents can “get away from you,” and you end up with far more commits and churn than you would expect.My workflow has been to create a new branch and tell the agents to re-implement this more cleanly. It looks like Amp just made this a button.

Tinycast is a nice, minimal alternative to Raycast - https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast (hat thip @nateberkopec)I never took full advantage of everything Raycast offered and V2’s additions were not for me.Installed Tinycast on Friday and it has been great.

Have children Teach someone how to read Visit Dubrovnik Fly in a helicopter Visit the Scottish Highlands Visit the Glenfinnan Viaduct Visit Dublin Visit New York September 2026 Ride in an NYC Cab September 2026 Visit Peru Host a national radio show Be an extra in a TV show Visit Venice Make mozzarella from scratch Have dinner with someone famous Fly in a two person plane Have work displayed in a gallery Own a small design studio April 2012 Own a house October 2012 Start a family June 2013 Have…

Got a directory that you want to tidy up bloat from? Whether you’re trying to find bad build artifacts in your work repository or clear out old cat videos from your home directory, Zsh’s (OL) glob qualifier can help you find the largest files. Using the Django source repository as an example, here’s how we can show the size of the five largest files: $ du -h **/*(.OL[1,5]) 696K tests/gis_tests/data/rasters/raster.numpy.txt 492K…

copyright to the photographer He took a knee for his People … Colin Kaepernick receives the ​Muhammad Ali Center's Humanitarian of the Year award. Asé Peace & Blessings,"Guided by the Ancestors"

Winnie Lim: It takes spiritual energy to create, maintain and produce personal projects. At the core, these projects exists because there is a belief in some sense of shared humanity. I write because I believe someone out there resonates with my experiences. But when everything starts to be about speed, utility and power, life becomes a dehumanising experience. It’s always disconcerting to read these sorts of posts, all the more so when they’re written by someone who’s been around for a long…

I wrote my last post at a cafe on my laptop. As I was writing the post and testing the Spaces-switching shortcuts to try to justify my rant, I was thinking, you know, this isn’t that bad. Why have I been so bothered by it? Later, after posting, I saw this: Just wait until you notice that it’s inexplicably slower on 120hz monitors and that your input devices remain focused on the previous space until the animation fully completes! Aha, that’s why! Back at my desk, I’m running at 240Hz with my…

The Googlebook is available for pre-order today. I gave the product page a look out of curiosity spawned from the hand-wavy announcement at Google I/O earlier this year. Seems like the final product is just as meaningless as the announcement was. There are three key points Google decided to focus on: Hardware: Crafted for performance Intelligence: Designed for Gemini Intelligence Better together: Synced effortlessly with your Android phone. It all strikes me as taking a Chromebook then taking…

Here's Sally wondering if using AI is ruining her brain. Her main point is that the more we outsource to the machines, the less we'll be capable of doing in the future. It's sad but true. There's a little nugget in this post that I think about every day. Sally enjoys knitting, and this part hits home: I like using my brain and my hands and figuring out solutions to problems. It feels amazing to respond to “I like your sweater” with “THANKS I MADE IT ALL BY MYSELF”. So! Much! This! Putting in…

Finished reading: Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 📚 Clear-eyed and constructive. I zipped through this on a few flights and felt enriched by my reading for the first time in a while.