Notices by Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)

Update: it was, in fact, a different Tim Cook who donated to Biden's inaugural fund[1]. 😌 I wonder how Tim would answer the question: “why are you donating to this one, but didn’t donate to the last one?”. That’d be fascinating to see.

(Also: I really, truly empathize with anyone who can’t just up and leave a job for purely ethical reasons — money is complicated and life situations even more so. There are no easy answers in life.)

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=&cycle=2020&employ=&jurisdiction=&name=Tim+Cook&occupation=&state=MI&type=&zip= — via @daniel

(Re: Tim Cook donating to Biden’s inaugural committee, I tried to do some digging. He's not mentioned in any articles I could find[1], but he is present on the donor list[2], although they say he’s from Michigan? Is it a different Tim Cook?)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/politics/technology-companies-biden-inaugural-donors.html

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210128073802/https://bideninaugural.org/brqrthk6dhdn94xx/

• If you work at Apple, can you really keep working there in good conscience after Tim Cook’s $1M payola to Trump?
• Or do you just tell yourself it’s not your problem, and just the cost of doing business in America? Which, maybe it is?
• But… is it? Or is it the cost of running a business as big as Apple is… with a president as self-serving as Trump?
• Should a business even *be* as big as Apple?
• How much did Tim Cook donate to Biden’s inaugural fund?

I’m left with lots of questions.

We bought a “Mini Brands Retro” toy capsule and I am absolutely delighted by this tiny tiny tiny 3M floppy disk

@ernie don’t forget the rest of the statement which really helped clear the air

as i replaced an old light bulb in my old van, i had to take a moment to appreciate this killer retro Toshiba logo

*extremely suspicious squint*

STOP // YOU MAY NEED THIS TODAY // HALT

Here's a 55 second clip of my wife Nicole feeding an apple peel to our pet rabbit, Cowboy

did somebody say “extend to 60 minutes”??

VERY EXCITING 2 ME https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nintendo-music/id6466376604

Bluesky: i love this game!!!! so i drew some fanart for it (kinda nsfw)

Mastodon: [Spoiler Warning/Opinion] I love this game! So I wrote an updated graphics driver to deliver better realtime lighting on levels 4 through 8

Threads: Our worst fears have come true. Noah left us. Yes, in the afternoon

anyone impressed by tesla’s optimus robot is going to LOSE THEIR MINDS when they visit innoventions at disneyland in 1998

from a portland police report on a recovered stolen vehicle — you kind of have to respect it

there’s a lot of confirmation fatigue in ios / macos now. but i do think the new design of this dialog is rather smart.

by showing the number of bluetooth devices nearby (50! i was walking home) and some of their names, it gave me a far more concrete sense of what can be revealed to the app if i granted access to bluetooth.

i was watching an icelandic crime drama on the airplane, and it was driving me nuts that every time they pulled out this piece of evidence, the word was drawn slightly differently!!!

this amazing observation was all well and good until i realized my seat mate was growing increasingly concerned with me pausing the movie and taking these pictures

in the grocery store, people were nodding and smiling at me, weirdly.

then i realized i never took off my badge from working the booth today… and i think maybe they thought i was the co-founder… of safeway

scan the QR cod………… SCAN THE QR COD!!

pdx: if you lost your guitar — or you need a new album cover — it’s in the middle of hawthorne blvd

please enjoy my realtime experience trying a pizza vending machine

I had two wins this weekend I want to remember.

① My son Joby found a janky script that could automate his Forza auctions (lol). We downloaded it, and tried it, but it didn’t quite work — it’d hit the wrong button.

Joby found the piece of the code he thought it might be (I was proud!), and then Dad showed up to fix some Python!!! I’ve never, ever touched Python!!! I immediately mixed tabs and spaces, whoops!!!

But I fixed it. (And wrote a comment explaining my fix!) He was so happy.