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The Pebble Index 01 is a Throwback to the Age of Weird Tech
This episode of Version History got me looking back at 2012 and realizing what a wonderfully weird time it was for gadge... -
The Fujifilm X half: The Case for Weirdness
As a photography enthusiast, its hard to admit that a new camera, especially from a brand you love, isn’t meant for you.... -
Thoughts on Microsoft, Arm, and Macs
A few thoughts on Microsoft’s recent AI-PC and Surface announcements: It’s weird to describe the new Surfac... -
The lunatics at Lomography made a new 110 camera
Lomography often gets chided by some in the film photography community. The rub is usually something like they make chea... -
Where Did CNET's Search Go?
CNET was one of the foundational sites for me in my early interneting. It had high-volume and high-quality articles acro... -
The Yak Bak Is the Exception to 90s Nostalgia
We’ve reached the point of 90s nostalgia that I’m shocked when there’s something from the era has esca... -
Will Spatial Video Be The Thing?
The spatial video aspects of the Vision Pro have been a big question for me since Apple previewed the headset. John Grub... -
What Am I To Make Of The Humane AI Pin
The Humane AI Pin is genuinely weird. I don’t want to diminish it because of that. In fact, it’s incredible ... -
Polaroid actually made a high-end camera again!
Polaroid just announced the I-2, a high-end instant camera like they haven’t made since the venerable SX-70 or SLR... -
A Single-Issue Phone Buyer
I’ve seen a little bit of Android versus iPhone talk come up lately. MKBHD recently did a video on it, and it&rsqu... -
Starting a New Job
Where I’m Going So I haven’t done a great job of announcing it, but I officially started a new job today! Fo... -
Intel Finally Licenses The NUC
When Intel announced it was discontinuing its diminutive NUC PCs last week, my first thought was why hadn’t Intel ... -
VueScan and Paying For Software
The recent trend to make all software a subscription is irksome. I am sympathetic to the fact that this does make softwa... -
Twitter's Unique Ad-Rev Share
Twitter rolled out ad-revenue sharing and the setup of it is unique: “This means that creators can get a share in... -
Four Black and White Album Covers
Sometimes the internet can still be fun. Recently I saw a thread going around on Bluesky, people sharing their favorite ... -
DNS Rank Vs Traffic
Tanking or declining? This tweet from Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince is making the rounds on social. Twitter traffic ... -
No Dignity in Journalism
I’m assuming Martin Pengelly went to a good school, studied hard, worked his way up through newsrooms to get to be the breaking news editor for The Guardian. Then he found himself writing this:
Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network
Twitter owner Elon Musk has suggested he and Mark Zuckerberg should have “a literal dick-measuring contest” in the latest broadside aimed at his rival billionaire.
In a message inspired by the Meta chief executive’s launch last week of Threads, a Twitter competitor, Musk added a ruler emoji.
Using a slang word for “cuckold”, popular in rightwing circles as a term of derision, he also wrote: “Zuck is a cuck.”
Threads is a legitimately interesting development. Any platform that grows to 100 million users in a week in a gigantic story. But now we get the pabulum always associated with Musk. Somehow this makes him challenging Zuck to a fight quaint in comparison.