Notices by Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social), page 4

Happy Vision Pro pre-order day to those who celebrate.

#apple #visionpro #startrek

It's almost as if leaf blowers are especially tuned to make the most annoying sound a human can hear.

@thomasfuchs Just be careful about saying it three times fast in a mirror, unless you want to be haunted by a phantom astronomer.

@ryanhoulihan A had this conversation with an insurance company last year:

Them: "If you could fax us that form back, that'd be greaaaat."

"I'm sorry, I can't do that from where I am right now."

"Where are you?"

"2023."

Them: Nobody wants to work anymore.

Me: For *you*. Nobody wants to work for *you* anymore.

Hollywood was obviously in the grips of cocaine psychosis in the 1980s.

Just witness this casting direction, which put a French actor in the role of a Scottish blacksmith, and an unmistakably Scottish actor in the role of an Egyptian immortal who pretends to be a Spanish swordsman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Lv82l6Q6Y

The older I get, the more respect I have for old dogs that just want to sleep and be left alone.

Why is it that we keep blaming our kids' depression and anxiety on social media and smartphones instead of the fact that we've turned the entire planet into a burning dumpster fire for them to deal with

At least part of my initial attraction to Silo on Apple TV+ was purely aesthetic and had to do with the absolutely delicious retrocomputing terminals they created.

That, combined with the brutalist architecture and utilitarian modernist furniture gives the whole thing a very "Stanford Community College Prison Experiment" vibe.

#appletv #scifi #silo #retrocomputing

Today is recycling day ♻️

“Foundation” vs “Dune”

Isaac Asimov: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from using math we haven’t discovered yet

Frank Herbert: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from tripping on drugs we haven’t discovered yet

The whole "liberal elites are using adrenochrome harvested from trafficked children" nonsense spouted by Jim Caviezel and others should immediately set off BLARING KLAXONS for anyone familiar with the concept of blood libel. This is the most vile antisemitic smear repurposed and weaponized by the QAnon fringe.

The Borg queen on #StarTrek implies the existence of a middle class of Borg, the Borgeoisie

wow, these moon photos from the new Samsung phone are incredible

Reading this piece infuriated me. If you followed me from Twitter, you likely won't be surprised: since my podcasting days I've been critical of Paul Thurrott's takes on, well, just about everything.

Thurrott claims that his Mastodon interaction is practically non-existent. If you check his presence here, you'll find he follows barely anyone and hasn't posted much either. Then he wonders why no one cares. Must be that Mastodon is failing, not because he sucks at it.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

I've weaned myself off Twitter except to check periodically for DMs, which is no small feat considering I used the site daily - many times a day - on and off for a decade and a half.

What's been the most remarkable for me is how little I actually miss it. If I'm being honest, Elon Musk taking over just accelerated Twitter's already occurring death spiral and gave me the impetus I needed to excise it out of my life altogether.