David Emery on Will Apple's glasses be less creepy than Meta's? - 'Well. It would be hard to be MORE creepy. George, you’re not thinking hard enough! Imagine: “Hi, we’ll identify that face for you, but first you have to watch this ad for condoms, since this is someone you or a close friend has had sex with previously.”)'
on Will Apple's glasses be less creepy than Meta's? - 'Meta’s glasses were designed based on those used in the Roddy “Rowdy” Piper Sci Fi move: “They Live.” A very “Creepy” movie. That’s how I’m going to refer to Meta’s glasses: Meta’s “They Live” Glasses. I remember in the movie they found these glasses in boxes inside or next to large dumpsters. In one scene Roddy had to go inside a garbage truck to find some glasses. A “B” rated Sci Fi movie but not a bad watch.'
on Will Apple's glasses be less creepy than Meta's? - 'Summary of today’s posts: Just creepy More creepy New creep Count me out.'
on Will Apple's glasses be less creepy than Meta's? - 'They will always be with us. As Shakespeare said: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow – Creeps.”'
on Saturday Apple video: Elon Musk on Steve Jobs - 'At the end, Elon states: “I think Steve Jobs is way cooler than I am.” It’s nice to see I have at least one point of agreement with him.'
on Will Apple's glasses be less creepy than Meta's? - 'It’s one thing for government’s and police forces to be able to access private video records, which always requires a warrant and everything is above-board and transparent to the legal person who owns that camera and/or data. It’s an entirely different thing for FB to gain automatic access to and ownership over all video and associated data from people wearing its smart glasses, to be used solely for its own purposes, financial and otherwise. Count me out from intentionally engaging in any of this, and especially by paying Mark Zuckerberg to allow me to do it for him.'
on Saturday Apple video: Elon Musk on Steve Jobs - 'Isn’t history replete with examples of human beings working out their self-esteem issues in public? When we’re lucky, they do so in a socially constructive way, and when we’re not, boom, you get Springtime for Men with Unique Grooming Habits. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'
on Saturday Apple video: Elon Musk on Steve Jobs - 'I sometimes wonder about the extent to which our dystopian politics are now driven by insecure little rich men who have felt disrespected – or in the case of Trump, humiliated – by their betters. Anybody remember Obama’s roast of The Donald at the 2011 correspondents’ dinner? (Video below.) Trump was in the audience, seemingly seething at jokes made at his expense. He had been a leading proponent of the false claim that Obama was a foreign-born Muslim who had fabricated his birth certificate, and as such was an illegitimate president. Obama just rhetorically slaughters him in the speech, in one of the better correspondents’ dinner speeches ever delivered by a president. Nobody likes to be publicly embarrassed. But it is easy to imagine that the narcissistic injury to Trump in 2011 was truly outsized. Here we have a popular U.S. president of a lineage related to what Trump believes to be a “shithole country,” exposing Trump’s “birther conspiracy” lies gently, with class and humor, in a forum in which Trump had no ability to respond. Obama speech here: https://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4?si=jlAPadBZO8J2flsN'
on Saturday Apple video: Elon Musk on Steve Jobs - 'What happened to that Elon? When did he board the nuts train?'
on What's the one Apple Service nearly everybody ponies up for? - 'Just picked up Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo for $4.99 from the Apple TV store… when I see a Hitchcock for $4.99 there, I snap it up. And then I download it to the Mac so it will never go away.'
on Can Tim Cook claw back the $3.3 billion Apple paid on Trump's tariffs? - 'You may think he wasn’t groveling, but this is the video I received when I asked Gemini for a video of Cook groveling to Trump. https://youtu.be/bMryT5OzEpM?si=S8O7keQhRARBGYqf'
on Can Tim Cook claw back the $3.3 billion Apple paid on Trump's tariffs? - 'If Apple is owed billions paid in now unconstitutionally accessed tariffs paid to US Customs, and if Trump now only has limited tariff powers, seems to this very likely simpleton that the balance of power just shifted toward Cook and other business leaders and gives them a bit more freedom. If so, this could get entertaining.'
on Apple sued for 'child pornography' by W. Virginia's Republican Attorney General - 'I don’t think Vance has any chance'
on Can Tim Cook claw back the $3.3 billion Apple paid on Trump's tariffs? - '@Steven & @Rodney – Upvoted you both. Thanks for pushing back on descriptions of Tim Cook’s actions as “groveling” when he was merely doing what was necessary under the present, unpleasant circumstances. He’s a C.E.O. who understands his responsiblity to his company and its shareholders.'
