After last night's murders in Colorado Springz, I want to encourage you to BE the family member who "ruined Thanksgiving for everybody." (1/?) BE the one at the family get-together who called a racist uncle "a total bag of ****."

BE the one who interrupted your sister's rant about "the agenda against the traditional family" to say "There's no such thing, and you're a ****ing moron for even thinking there is." (2/?)

A few details from my Q&A with Apple about the iPhone 14 and Pro yesterday: (1/?)

1) Satellite Emergency SOS works at any battery level where you'd expect regular messaging to work. There's no special minimum required. And yes, communications with emergency services is two-way. 2) Dynamic Island: there's no always-on outline of black pixels around the camera cutout to sell the effect. When it expands, special antialiasing makes the border of the UI element look as crisp as the physical cutout's edges. (2/?)

Updated my MacBook and iPad Pro for Universal Control tonight. I'm liking it so much that I'm forcing myself to leave my desk and go to bed. I'm too excited about doing an actual work session with this setup and I _probably_ shouldn't stay up until 7 AM on a weeknight. But: (1/?) 1) Very impressed with how much "it just works." Though I've only tried it with a vanilla-as-hell setup. I'll bring the pain tomorrow.

2) Setup is easy and then it's easy to connect/disconnect. UI treats it as just another element of Display settings, even through menubar. (2/?)

I'm very pleased and optimistic about Apple's acquisition of Primephonic. Classical music is idiosyncratic and absolutely requires a bespoke streaming experience. Apple acquires the whole catalog and promises a custom app and experience for classical.

apple.com/newsroom/2021/… Mainstream platforms are usually disappointing. "We've _loads_ of opera...we've got 'Nessun Dorma' by the Three Tenors _and_ that little girl from 'America's Got Talent'! Here's some 70s soft-rock that our algorithm thinks people who search for opera would rather listen to..."

Pitch for a reality show:

Cast 12 bakers for a knockoff of "Great British Bake-Off." They enter the tent for the first time and discover that they'll _actually_ be competing in a knockoff of "Great Pottery Throw-Down." Across town,12 potters encounter similar confusion. Each baker-potter has been paired with a potter-baker. They never meet, BUT they're allowed to Facetime each other from their respective sets to ask for advice on how the _hell_ to complete this week's challenge.

A few things helped to cure me of my bad attitude towards comic book creative runs I don't like:

1) Accepting that the writer isn't obligated to please _me,_ specifically

2) Learning to be happy for the many many other fans who seem to be enjoying it

but mostly

3) Turning 15. To clarify: I still insist that the way [A-list writer] handled [B-list character] was so inept and unprofessional that any writer would be justified to retcon every bit of it, and [recent-ish event] is objectively among the worst comics in history. But overall? *shrug*

To the world: thank you for your concern and support. Please know that the people you're seeing storming Congress aren't protesters. This isn't a country at war with itself. What you're seeing is the United States under attack by a terror group. (1/) One of our ruling parties glibly thought of this group as Useful Idiots, easily manipulated and _controlled._ Thinking solely of how the group's anger could further the party's goals, they didn't recognize the group as wild dogs whose sole master is its own irrational rage. (2/)

Signal-boosting John Roderick's blog post about the legume father thing. I've only met him once -- VERY briefly -- but he's the friend of more than one person whom I respect and trust. So I was sort of anticipating this explanation and accountability. johnroderick.com/an-apology "Cancel culture" _is_ a thing, and it's a problem. BUT at the same time, people with large sustained audiences (like me) are responsible for the words that wind up in other people's faces. A JR fan sees sarcastic self-deprecation; strangers are only reminded of their own abuse.

Just finished the episode of @AmazingRaceCBS that decided the three teams in the final. I think this is the first time ever that I've _hated_ the outcome of an episode. If there are more like this, it could be my "jump the shark" moment for the show. Since 2001, the unspoken message of @AmazingRaceCBS has been "The world is going to throw _all_ kinds of unanticipated setbacks at you. You've got to deal with it and keep trying to move forward." The theme of this episode -- season? -- was the opposite:

First Tweet from Lilith 14! M1 MacBook Pro with 16 gigs of RAM and a 512 gig SSD. I always set up a new Mac cold. Instead of restoring or cloning, I install fresh copies of apps, one at a time, and only when I first need to use them. This guarantees that the only stuff on the SSD is the stuff I actually use day to day.

My weekly Hi-Tech Hi-Dee-Ho on @BosPublicRadio was a slice, as always! Here's the stuff I recommended, in case you're hitting my Twitter later on for something you couldn't write down: My favorite password managers are @1Password and @LastPass -- and once again, each of these companies has sponsored a podcast of mine at some point, so let that be known. @WIRED has a terrific roundup of others. wired.com/story/best-pas…

My "Hackers" 25th Anniversary story: I saw it in a studio big-city screening room with professional movie critics, as the guest of a friend. I had some...um..."practical experience"...with the subject and culture. So I struggled to stifle laughter and MST3K-style comments. (1/?) But I was JUST old and mature enough to recognize that this was a professional environment and any misbehavior would reflect poorly on my friend. So I was silent. We grabbed lunch right afterward. That's when I opened the floodgates. (2/?)