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BiL Castine Jun 7

steve mookie kong Jun 6

The current state of business.

#business #ai #advertising #advertisement

BiL Castine Jun 6

MacSparky Jun 3

My New Podcast: Intentional AI with Chris Bailey: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/06/my-new-podcast-intentional-ai-with-chris-bailey/

I’m proud to announce I just released a new podcast, and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it for months. It’s called Intentional AI, and it’s a show about using AI to actually get your work done. Not the doom. Not the hype. The practical, useful stuff that gives you your time back. The origin... Continue reading →

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BiL Castine May 30

This was a very enlightening read. No way would I spend over $1000 for a display (personally) since I don’t do graphics work anymore, but I do want crisp text on a HiDPI display. RetinaDesk helped me realize what I’d been doing wrong and how to get a clearer picture without buying a new display. Spoiler alert: it was the cable

https://retinadesk.com/tools/cable-bandwidth-calculator/

Mac Cable Bandwidth Calculator

Check if your USB-C, HDMI 2.0/2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, or Thunderbolt 3/4/5 cable can actually drive 4K 120Hz, 5K 60Hz, or 6K on your M1, M2, M3, M4, or M5 Mac. Stop getting stuck at 4K 30Hz.

RetinaDesk

BiL Castine May 16

Dan Sturm May 15

This is my son’s new favorite song(s). He’s been playing it on a near-constant loop for 3 days now and I can’t blame him.

BiL Castine Apr 25

Andrea Junker

Apr 24

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

BiL Castine Apr 25

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Dec 1, 2025

This last week, on a trip, while talking with several extended family members, I noticed that I was hearing the same tone in a lot of the conversations.

It was very 🤷🤦🙎🙅😡😤😩...

My partner and I also took psychic chip-damage from unintentional/passive transphobia and sexism throughout the trip.

In response, I decided that it's time to double down...on being kind.

Sure, I'll still loudly call out bullshit when I see it, but I decided that I need to redouble—neigh 🐴—retriple my efforts to be kind and helpful and wholesome(-ish) to everyone.

Because being kind to someone when they need it most is worth more to the community than me yelling at conservatives (but still, fuck those guys).

*this toot may have also been inspired by watching K-Pop Demon Hunters for the third time.

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

BiL Castine Mar 22