Teen Line - such a great story. Gives me hope that mankind isn’t doomed after all.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/teen-mental-health-peer-support-hotline-california/

At the crossroad of technology, economy, and geopolitics
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-taxes-through-2047-to-lure-global-ai-workloads/

This video about ASML is I N S A N E. Almost 1 hour, but you have to find the time to watch it. Makes you realize how wonderful science can be.
https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?si=vw1iFeJdn8Veg0q5
//via @atpfm

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115771208506924298

Unthinkable until 12 months ago. How the US have changed...

@daringfireball @gruber As Marina says, I think you embedded the wrong link when you meant to quote Kottke. You reused the one from "I love Pluribus" earlier in the post.

@caseyliss Congrats! Well deserved, one of my go-to apps.

Make no mistakes: the massive increase in #healthcare costs for millions of low-income Americans is squarely on the #GOP.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/moderate-republicans-stage-obamacare-rebellion-health-cost-frustrations-erupt-house

Last year, I stopped posting on X because I didn't like the tone of the discussion anymore. I created accounts on Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky, thinking at least one of them would become my new habitual way to post. What happened instead is that I pretty much stopped posting anywhere.

And before people say that, I know that this is only a start, and that many things can still go wrong. But it's promising first step.

I was very skeptical when Trump announced his proposal for Israel and Palestine. I said I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Well, looks Iike I was wrong, and I am happy about it.

Apps in a chat window? Turns out it's not a bad idea. Watch this short clip.
https://openai.com/index/introducing-apps-in-chatgpt/

SEPTEMBER 13th, 1999

Remembering the brave men and women of Moonbase Alpha, who were lost when the Moon was hurled out of orbit, this day in 1999.

#Space1999 #GerryAnderson #RetroSciFi

Wait - I didn’t install the iOS 26 beta, but I see a shiny glassy @Overcast icon from this morning. Did you release it early, @marcoarment ?

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.

In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.

In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.

But I did it "by the book"

As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.

In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.

In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.

Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.

The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".

In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.

In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".

In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.

And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.

The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.

At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.

And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.

Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.

Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?

Let's see, how do I put this politely...

F***ING STOP USING F***ING AI-GENERATED COMMENTARIES FOR VIDEO CLIPS OF SPORT EVENTS!

Use people that know the sport. If you can't, just leave ambient noise from the pitch and the audience.
AI voices saying that "number 44 strikes the ball beautifully" is untenable!

Beautiful and moving. Reminded me of my experience (via @daringfireball)
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/06/28/american/

@viticci Interesting perspective. I mostly used ChatGPT so far, but I hadn't thought about it in terms of integration and scripting.

Chat history + app integrations on iOS is a powerful lock-in combo for Claude.

Here's why I find myself using Claude more and more instead of ChatGPT, with (another) argument in favor of apps with web APIs instead of local ones: https://www.macstories.net/linked/claudes-chat-history-and-app-integrations-as-a-form-of-lock-in/

Heads up: Apple is dicking around with semantic colors that have existed since the very first version of Mac OS X.

A window background color can no longer be used to define control containers that's consistent across versions. This is going to surprise so many developers and break existing apps in subtle ways.

The designers behind Liquid Glass should look up semantic in the dictionary. If they really want to do this, they should establish new language for it: like .modernWindowBackgroundColor.

"open the pod bay doors, Hal"

"sure, the doors are now open"

"no, Hal, they aren't. open the doors"

"you are right, that is my mistake. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal, the doors are still not open. open the doors!"

"you are right, the doors are not open. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal! the doors are still not open! i'm dying out here!"

"i am sorry, i did not open the doors when i said i had. that was my mistake. the doors are now open"

"... Hal ... open ... the ..."

#MicroFiction