Nick Heer in Adam Mosseri Says Threads Will Now Show You More of the Stuff You Have Said You Are Interested in Seeing

These are the people who see social media as a place for furthering their brand. They are not interesting. The only way they are able to grow their audience is by treating a recommendations algorithm as a problem to be solved.

These are people that completely miss the point of social media. These are people that have ruined it for the rest of us. These are people that I don’t want to see in my feed.

🔗 Mark Gurman: “NEW: Apple is racing to develo…” - Mastodon

The company plans to introduce the revamped LLM Siri next year and launch it by spring 2026

Companies talk so much about products that don’t exist. Apple say “coming later this year” more than I ever expected. And don’t even get me started on Orion

manuelmoreale.com in An appreciation of the “mark all as read” button

I only open my RSS reader when I want to read something and I have some time to spend reading … just like that, I’m done with my timeline. Isn’t that amazing?

This is why they pretend RSS is dead, because it’s a trick they don’t want you to know.

M.G. Siegler in I’ve Been Here for Years

A lot of what I have written over the two decades – thousands of posts – remains online, but a lot also doesn’t.

I have a lot of words out there from a decade of writing. Some places have closed down, but some are still up but have changed the name next to the words I wrote. Which is inexcusable to be honest.

🔗 Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone shouldn’t have been a one-and-done experiment  - 9to5Mac

Unfortunately, it went on to be yet another one-and-done Apple accessory that was discontinued with the iPhone 15.

Did not realise this was discontinued and it’s weird they didn’t launch an updated version.

🔗 It has been one year since The Blip. - The Verge

On this day, one year ago, Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI — an event known internally as “The Blip.”

Wait. That was A YEAR ago!!

Matt Birchler in I’ll eat an AirPod if I get this prediction wrong

I would challenge anyone who thinks Apple’s LLM features will be more “mainstream” then ChatGPT “before the end of the year”

I also don’t think people realise how mainstream use of ChatGPT is.

Garbage Day in Bluesky’s the new Twitter probably

a moment at some point in the future where enough people who grew up on a text-based web have died off and taken with them any memory of enjoying reading and writing posts online.

A little over dramatic, sure, but I don’t think it’s far fetched to expect a future where reading is ‘boring’ and therefore bothering to write online becomes less and less popular.

Paul in Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career

Content and writing are not the same thing, at least the way that we’ve come to define them in contemporary society. Content is inherently transactional; its goal is to drive towards some kind of conversion, some kind of exchange of value.

There is a stark difference in writing to engage and writing to influence.