Notices by Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com), page 2

The territory has been reclaimed…

We have a second bunny now, the 3rd grade bunny, for the summer.

She’s a lot wilder than our blind bunny Cowboy, so the cats find that fascinating, but keep their distance. Until this very moment…

“Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I…”

a world-class icon

these premises monitored by old-timey newsreel photographer

@thomasfuchs I’ll check it out!! is it anything like visicalc????

Frst two top-of-mind thoughts about Apple Intelligence:

• I really wish they would have addressed the environmental story. That would help me personally accept these features more. But I know they can’t… because the story isn’t good.

• I actually think a lot of it looks quite nice, feels Apple-esque, and the UI they’re doing is really cool, but I remain viscerally repulsed by any AI generated art. (In their Notes demo, the sketch looked better!!)

True absolute star of the keynote: Math Notes

@benjedwards thanks a lot buddy now i own a faxview. i guess i better buy your book asap

@reesericci @benjedwards i just made a little video about this but the mastodon video file size limit is BRUTAL 😭

@davidga I always assumed media was copied from server to server — hence the tight filesize restrictions — but I could be totally wrong!!!

I tried Copilot, and, credit where credit is due, this is a legendary autocomplete suggestion

I just really hope Apple is preparing a metric hectare of reassurances if (big if!) they’re about to announce a deep partnership with OpenAI.

Like, reassurances about the environmental impact (all that work down the drain?), about the training data sources, about general ethics, about the cringy move-fast-and-break-things startup-bro vibes that they will then inherit onto their brand, etc…

🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.

Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

@Cdespinosa @pixel The plot thickens. “I bought this item at a charity auction during my trip to Munic at Christmas 2001. As you can see, the invoice is expressed in the old German currency, before the entry of the EURO.”

I think there’s a chance this story might be true — and this is a bamboozlee, not the original bamboozler.

Calling all Germans! @map

(But then again: if this person enjoys forging documents, this would be a fun one to forge.)

@samwho I like this a lot! Bonus idea: teach people the Mac shortcuts here, too, so they can become more independent over time!

For example, these are permanently hardwired into my brain: Option-2 for ™, Option-R for ®, Option-G for ©, Option-. for …, and Option-8 for •

Is it extremely petty to set a calendar reminder for one year out, just to prove that you were right about a crypto-based domain name system being useless grift?

Yes.

Did I still do it?

Y… yes

Exactly the kind of mystery I love — a (very wide!) ride vehicle spotted on its way to Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park!

Project 905 is the Wizarding World area, but what ride system is it?! https://www.simtec.de/en/entertainment

(Via @ lexifl on TikTok)

Apologies to this random house, but I had no idea that when you ask Apple Maps not to include your house in Look Around, they convert your house into Minecraft.

https://maps.apple.com/?address=5630%20SE%20Yamhill%20St,%20Portland,%20OR%20%2097215,%20United%20States&ll=45.515903,-122.605135&q=5630%20SE%20Yamhill%20St&_mvs=CjYJ7wK6nQ3CRkAR/z+P07WmXsAZAACFY6BZUUAhi4shlDDmX0Ap5Qm1QI5u9b8xAAAAAAAAAAASMAobU0UgNTd0aCBBdmUgJiBTRSBZYW1oaWxsIFN0EgdCZWxtb250GghQb3J0bGFuZA%3D%3D

(unfortunately I am now 500× more curious about this house)

It is so, so incredibly cool that I can open a web browser and instantly play with the first Mac app that Steve and I ever made.

Thanks you so much, InfiniteMac. https://infinitemac.org/1999/Mac%20OS%209.0

I’m profoundly compelled and drawn to this drawing of Batman, as seen on a deck of Japanese playing cards via Y! Auctions.

Who is making the t-shirt

The shirt has been made. https://mastodon.social/@joshcalvetti/112010839541902093 Great work @joshcalvetti

i need to shave