10:28@rotational@mastodon.socialThe end of the mechanical in modern tech is such a terrible loss, even if that’s where VCRs, floppy drives, Walkmen all tended to go wrong. Here’s a profoundly satisfying supercut of anime “retro tech” www.youtube.com 10:28@eniko@peoplemaking.gamesI feel like too many words are spent explaining why "AI" search is a terrible idea when we could just be like "Large language models can’t do that hope that helps" 11:58@danielnazer@mastodon.socialI wrote a fairly mundane post on Reddit that led to me getting an AI-prompted message with suicide prevention resources. I was completely mystified but then I realized it was probably because I included the phrase: I find it hard to manage (in a context like I find it hard to manage the crabgrass in my garden ... ).This is the future isnt it? AI pestering us with context-free misunderstood nonsense. I guess I should just count myself lucky that the AI didnt institutionalize me. 14:22Je suis dans un mon ère Sondheim aujourd’hui, et je suis retombé sur cette master class de comédie musicale d’il y a quatre ans, que j’avais postée à l’époque sur l’oiseau mort. www.youtube.com 16:24@waldoj@mastodon.socialOK Apples new Vehicle Motion Cues is super cool. They reduce motion sickness while using an iPhone or iPad in the car by having little dots move around on the screen in tandem with the vehicles movement, to align visual cues with your inner ears sense of movement (the lack of which causes motion sickness). www.apple.com 17:44Ah mais la Foire du trône s’est terminée vachement tôt cette année ?! Normalement j’évite le quartier pendant tout le début de l’été, du coup je viens seulement de m’en apercevoir. Un rare avantage des JO ? 19:48Hey McDonald’s quand on est la destination numéro 1 des neurodivergents qui ont un rapport complexe à la nourriture (pléonasme), on ne piège pas son menu en rajoutant du Spicy aux McNuggets du jour au lendemain sans mettre DE GROS AVERTISSEMENTS PARTOUT.(C’est pas mauvais mais c’est pas ce que je voulais manger 😒) 20:49@stephaniewalter@front-end.socialTeranoptia a typeface without letters that lets you imagine chimeric creatures by typing letters. Love it, I’m having way too much fun with this!!(via @cassidoo ’s newsletter) www.tunera.xyz 22:41Franchement surpris que la France n’y soit pas déjà mastodon.social 23:59@b3ll@mastodon.socialWhoever worked on the 3D dynamic shadows cast by the virtual pen tool with Apple Pencil and the new iPad Pro… kudos. It’s so damn cool. Makes me wish I worked there twitter.com