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This is a free, 4.9-star, editor’s choice game that has no in-app purchases and doesn’t collect any personal data. What?? #WereCleaner https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-werecleaner/id6478448519

“Time Enough at Last” always makes it into these #TwilightZone marathons, but I don’t really care for it that much, I think it’s in the B pile for sure.

People who are old enough will remember that if you texted or called people at midnight on New Year’s Eve in the early 2000s, *you might not get through* because the cell networks were so overloaded. Sometimes you’d get an SMS hours after it was sent.

Crazy to me that you can’t send “Happy birthday” or “Congratulations” or “Happy new year” in iMessage without an “effect” being added. This is automatic and there is no way to disable it.

You could turn off iMessage and send these as SMS/RCS messages, I suppose, but that’s a pain in the ass.

The freaky rise of AI horrorcore https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/65760/1/freaky-rise-of-ai-horrorcore-will-smith-root-people-dongcrawlers

Whoa there is a recipe-sharing webapp using #ATProto: https://bsky.app/profile/recipe.exchange/post/3ldmgaozkhk2m

I’m having major Baader-Meinhof with the Fugu fish

Fill in the blank: “______ is like CocoMelon for adults.”

I said to a friend the other day that the hipster was not one thing: there were (very roughly) “cocaine hipsters” (Parliament Lights and LCD Soundsystem) and “pot hipsters” (American Spirits and Devendra Banhart) — and others, I’m sure, that differ from and overlap with these.

But I was always uneasy about the “cocaine hipsters,” myself.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/26/2010s-indie-sleeze-music-culture

What gall to name a song “THE CHRISTMAS SONG.”

I love the bustle of the holidays, and I love seeing my loved ones all month, but I am so glad to be in my own cozy apartment with no long-distance travel in the near future.

Bruce Hornbies and A Range

18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18/

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist a book by Liz Pelly https://bookshop.org/p/books/mood-machine-the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of-the-perfect-playlist-liz-pelly/21580625?ean=9781668083505)

Apple, bring Cover Flow back to iOS, cowards

I can’t overstate how much of an impact it has had on my mental wellbeing to keep a reusable travel packing list on my phone. I check off everything I either don’t need or have packed, and I can know I didn’t forget anything. I’m not running through a mental checklist on the way to the airport.

“Run Rudolph Run” is one of the most well-known songs to contain a lyric about urination

I’ve got to get home

Say, what’s in this comb

Me: “I forgot to mention one little thing: a ring.”

Santa: “Oh you mean like on the phone?? ;P”

Spotify is stuffing their playlists with cheap factory-farm music to avoid paying artists.

Soon people will be listening to AI music without even knowing or caring.

The Ghosts in the Machine