David Emery on Caught on video: Elon Musk when Tim Cook wasn't looking - 'I, for one, pay PED to exercise his judgement. Even when I disagree with him, I’m fine reading the stuff he selects and his take on it.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '“[AAPl] Max pain…at $295 (up $15)…” Lots of options losers (and some winners) last week, as the reality of Apple’s undervaluation in today’s world continues to sink in. Basically, a lot of shooting way behind the target.'
on I'm flying to Croatia - 'Steven said “Curious about those numbers. What are you doing in the saddle if not touring?” To clarify, those were 3 days of pure tourism, no bike involved.'
on I'm flying to Croatia - '3days of tourism but 6 days in the saddle? Curious about those numbers. What are you doing in the saddle if not touring?'
on I'm flying to Croatia - 'I did some preliminary research on the area a couple years agi, with the thought of relocating there. It looks wonderful. Lots of British ex-pats. Cost of quality real estate and living are very reasonable, and of course no Trump.'
on Mark Gurman: To protect your privacy, Siri 2.0 may forget what you asked - 'I am finding chatgpt memory very beneficial. I am working on a 3 year project and I am always giving it more info to expand it’s “knowledge base” and the responses are less general in nature and more refined for my product, very particular customer base, market conditions, etc.'
on Errol Brandt: WWDC26 will hinge on Apple's MLX framework (video) - 'Yes, David. There are no guarantees. Apple has been working hard to prepare the company’s AI solutions for release in June. In my view, the company has lost a lot of public confidence in Apple’s ability to deliver on AI. Apple does need to deliver big at WWDC 2026. This is Tim’s last conference as CEO, the first big event for John Ternus as the incoming CEO and with two additional years of development time following the WWDC 2024 AI debacle. Now’s the time to deliver bigly. If Apple does deliver at WWDC 2026 and restores confidence in the company’s ability to deliver on AI, I do expect very good things for the company’s revenue and earnings growth.'
on Caught on video: Elon Musk when Tim Cook wasn't looking - 'PED, remember that you charge for people to read your blog. You may want to let that reality help guide you as to what topics you choose.'
on Mark Gurman: To protect your privacy, Siri 2.0 may forget what you asked - 'I see what you did there! 😀'
on Caught on video: Elon Musk when Tim Cook wasn't looking - 'I love the smell of speed, dominance, provocation, conquest, visible disruption, and cockiness in the morning. There’s no better way to miss a subtle strategic maneuver than to mistake your own contempt for intelligence. So by all means, play the class clown.'
on Apple, TSMC and Taiwan's 'silicon shield' - '“ Now, if he decided to attack Russia in the east, take Vladivostok, and regain all the territory they lost to treaties …” Totally agreed. They could easily take as much of Russia as they want. Whether it’s worth having is another story, though having Moscow on the same Beijing timezone as the rest of China would a perfect punishment for their countless warm crimes. I also agree with many comments re: the Taiwan talk as sabre rattling. I think the most likely outcome for Taiwan is it getting the Hong Kong treatment. It’s so easy to influence/interfere with elections now, that with patience they can install a government that would destroy Taiwan from the inside much like Putin did with Trump. I sincerely hope that does not come to pass.'
on Caught on video: Elon Musk when Tim Cook wasn't looking - 'I place Zuckerberg in the same vein as Musk, notice he was originally invited but declined to attend and sent a different representative in his place. Maybe to oversee the layoffs below: From John Gruber, Daring Fireball, regarding employee morale at META and pending layoffs coming this Wednesday: Wired on the Dark Mood Inside Meta Thu May 14 10:53:10 GMT 2026 Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired (News+ link) https://apple.news/AxiZwPkcEQ8uHIg9tXw5rCQ As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” says an employee who works on Instagram. I’ve never heard of a company bracing for layoffs where the morale was good. But this Wired report — with some all-star bylines — paints a particularly dark picture of the mood in Menlo Park: “I don’t know anyone having a good time,” says a policy staffer. “The vibe is a bit ‘over it’ — lack of connection to the mission, upcoming layoffs, American employees being used to train the AI models that will replace them.” Anyone who can afford to leave is hoping to be laid off and receive the 16 weeks minimum of severance and 18 months of paid health care that come with it, several people say. As the Instagram employee put it, “Everyone is just like, do it now, jesus fucking christ.” Only the individuals with the best pay packages and involved in the core development of AI seem to be thriving, a longtime senior leader at Meta says. Regarding the new employee surveillance tracking software: Opting out is not possible, according to three employees. “Nobody is happy about it,” says a current employee. “And we have no choice.” Some employees claim they have found workarounds to dodge tracking or have managed to delay installation. The software, known as Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, suddenly turned people across the company into privacy zealots, a legal staffer says. When employees protested the rollout in internal messages, including by referencing Meta’s history of user data breaches, chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth “belittled and berated” the dissenters, one veteran employee says and another confirms. “These billionaires can’t even feign empathy,” the first person says. “The social contract is completely shattered at this point.” Unanswered remains my question from earlier this week: is MCI installed on Bosworth’s computer too? (And Zuck’s?) ★ Thursday, 14 May 2026 daringfireball net /linked/2026/05/14/wired-on-meta-morale META, where not only through Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, What’s App, etc.) are YOU, Your data, photos, posts, browsing behavior, algorithms, spending habits, ad engagement, etc. the products for sale to advertisers and anyone else, plus training fodder for META’s AI, but if you are an employee, your whole employment is one great big data collection and surveillance program as well, and when META is done with you, you’re barely thanked and then replaced with the very same AI. All the while META executives are laughing all the way to the bank, confident they are above the fray until Zuck decides they can also be replaced by an AI CIO, CFO, and CTO. Pretty soon Zuck will rule alone in his Metaverse AI, surrounded by avatars and AI sycophants, where no rules except his rules are relevant or accountable to. The end of Meta can’t come soon enough, either through legal, financial, or abandonment by its users and employees.'
