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“Twisters” was the first disaster movie in 15 years to take in more than $500 million at the box office.

What was the previous one?

This is seriously one of the best pieces of UI I’ve ever seen. The actions and their implications are crystal clear.

What are some “radical” or “counter-culture” books that would have been on the shelves of every Berkeley student in, say, the early- to mid-1970s?

Kabel is having a moment and I’m feeling vindicated #typography

On April 29, the lifetime plan for #Plex is more than doubling in price, increasing from $120 to $250. If you expect to use Plex for more than two years, and you can afford it, now is the time to take that leap.

Going to see Hudson Hawk for the first time, on 35mm

The #rePebble store is up and taking preorders. As an old Pebble devotee, I desperately want one to play with, but I know I wouldn’t wear it instead of my Apple Watch. https://store.repebble.com

Analogue Pocket white is back in stock: https://store.analogue.co/products/analogue-pocket-white

A deep dive into Mahmoud Khalil. I don’t know why of all the horrors of the past few months, this one hits me the hardest. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.Hbcl.daMtRxdLsRP0&smid=url-share

Ok #Juxtagram really is cute and addictive as hell, and it’s on sale: https://play.date/games/juxtagram/

#Playdate

I honestly have no idea what a webmention is, or how it’s different from a pingback/trackback, but it sounds complicated to implement.

(I also never understood the difference between a pingback and a trackback.)

Also, thank god for the old stalwart of the blogging days, Pingbacks, through which I found this collection of observations from @mjtsai: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/03/big-surs-narrow-alerts/

An 2020 analysis from @morrick: https://morrick.me/archives/9025

#macOS #Apple

Good job, Apple, A++, no notes

Trump is not secretly politically savvy, despite what even some of his detractors have said over the years.

He’s just willing to do things nobody was willing to do before. His “savvy” is just being completely unscrupulous.

But that’s weird, isn’t it? Normal people don’t care about it; people who actually make tech don’t care about it (judging by the vibe on Mastodon). Who then is pushing this narrative that it’s an essential feature in every product? Venture capital?

It is absolutely a tech-headed echo chamber belief that things need AI. Normal people do not think it’s a defect of the iPhone 15 that it didn’t “have AI in it.” Nobody is using any of this stuff except talking to ChatGPT. It sucks to watch Apple sink its brand chasing this nonsense.

New Frog Eyes: https://frogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-open-up

#music

The world’s greatest deal-maker: Ask Putin what he wants and then give it to him.

”Nobody else could get it done except me, because they’re stupid and I’m smart.”

From @jonny, author of the incoming Mastodon “fetch all replies in thread” PR:

“As an addendum, I would say that this should be considered *expected behavior* for activitypub: the `replies` collection is a public `Collection` that is part of an actor’s `outbox` and servers should expect other servers to to paginate through these, and the source servers should implement access controls accordingly.”