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I guess I truly am middle-aged because the most exciting part of the WWDC keynote for me was the improved ScreenTime features. Those look great.
Apple shipped Siri AI on iOS 27 but not in the EU, blaming the Digital Markets Act, while giving EU users the same assistant on the Mac. The line tracks which platforms the law designates, not any real difference in risk.
Visited Iwate Ginga Plaza, the antenna shop for Iwate prefecture near Ginza/YurakuchoI heard they were going to stop production of those çava (saba/mackerel) cans but learned that they now have been able to fish more saba, so have begun...
I’ve never been much of a video creator. I’ve always said that I’d stick to blogging, mostly because that’s where my strengths lie and what I’m most comfortable doing. Despite all that, I launched my first real YouTube channel yesterday...
Today’s live stream was a little over an hour long — the shortest presentation since 2005 — but, if this big list of refinements captured by Jonathan Reed, of MacStories, is representative of what will be shipping in September, I am not...
There are some very striking images and strongly expressed scenes in Safa Khatib’s A Dress of Locusts (including the image that gives the title!), and I’m kind of sad I […]
Apple works to make good on Apple Intelligence with Siri AI
This will be a series of graduate lectures at Peking University, two lectures per week beginning mid-June and proceeding into July. Topics. We shall aim to cover the central results in the modal logic of forcing, including an exploration...
Okay yay I’m finally not sick anymore!!!!! On Monday I went to go see Obsession with a bunch of pinball people, great movie! Very spooky, pretty well done, after a point it does kinda feel like a “youtube university” project as Will...
I'll make this brief; I'm no longer using GoDaddy as my web hosting servicer, and am cancelling frompyrgos.com in that iteration. Rather than go on a long ramble about my problems with them, I'll make it as short and sweet as possible....
This abstract detail of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth highlights architect Tadao Ando’s hallmark use of concrete and glass—crafting a space that’s both serene and striking, thoughtfully rooted in its cultural context and seamlessly...
Our world consists of many coupled evolving systems, including systems of competing species, nations, political parties, firms, cultures, charities, and even academics.