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Darren Cohen on moving back to Gmail: Going back to Gmail wasn't about giving up my principles; it was about accepting that interoperability is itself a feature, and right now, Gmail is where most of the tools I care about live. I'm currently using an Android

Salvador Vilalta on the future of AI content: A study by Amazon Web Services estimates that 57% of online content is already generated or translated by artificial intelligence. And the boldest prediction comes from experts such as Nina Schick and Europol: by 2026, up to 90% of content on the

Nick Heer writing about Meta prevailing in the U.S. antitrust case: Meta is now fully an entertainment company There is a lot to dig into regarding the legal ruling, but this single line struck me as the perfect summary of where we are. The facade is gone. Meta isn&

Steph Ango on Mastodon: oops I missed the outage, I was too busy writing in Obsidian The internet broke again. Cloudflare had a wobble, taking down a massive chunk of the web, and everyone panicked. Unless you were working locally. Then you probably didn't even notice until you

Lee Peterson on iPhone photography. With an iPhone I have a choice of lenses, it’s blends in more, I have filters I can use in real time and I can edit on the device itself if I want to edit there and then. I completely agree with this. The

One of my favourite writers, Craig Mod in his Ridgeline Newsletter: The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’

Serial EU moaner John Gruber, responding to a measured approach from Nick Heer: I suspect there are going to be a lot of Europeans who buy a new M5 MacBook Pro and wind up charging it with inexpensive low-watt power adapters meant for things like phones, and wind up with

Nick Hilton commenting on Steven Bartlet and posted to LinkedIn: Content being interesting and provocative is more valuable, to creators, than it being accurate or instructional. We’ve known for a long time, stupid headlines get clicks, and this is an extension of that for the video centric world we

Curtis McHale in Productivity as a Fetish edition of their newsletter 3 Threads: Many of the people touting their system actually have a team behind them getting most of the work done. Their only job is to show you the productivity system, not sit in the morass of expectations that

Social platforms, ones that allow people to communicate, share ideas and find common ground, can be a net benefit — but its the platform part thats the issue