A Guy Named Brian (he/him)

@GuyNamedBrian
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Introverted environmental planner in the Mile-High City | Lay Anglican of the TEC variety | Cathedral verger, one mile up | Mainly just trying to be a decent husband & father | All views are mine! Mine I say! 😀
LocationDenver, Colorado, USA
ProfessionEnvironmental Planner
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As with many people (I suspect) I can not help thinking that the great Reflecting Pool debacle simply mirrors the debasement of the US by Trump and his supporters.

#Trump #USA #USPol #ReflectingPool #Corruption #Stench

⚡ NEWS

Israeli strike kills Lebanese turtle ecologist Mona Khalil

Lebanese marine activist and ecologist Mona Khalil, 76, died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike. Khalil was a beloved figure known for running the Orange House Project, a turtle sanctuary near Tyre where she protected nesting sites and hosted volunteers.

📰 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/mona-khalil-turtle-ecologist-lebanon-killed-israeli-attack

#Israel #Military #Geopolitics #GeoWire

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

The Guardian
What a day to watch the beautiful game ☀️⚽️

“The iPhone began as a slab of glass that could become anything through software. But AI systems push that logic much further. If the interface can already rearrange itself dynamically, why stop at buttons? Why stop at apps? Why even stop at screens? Once software became flexible enough to replace physical controls, the next logical step was software flexible enough to replace apps themselves.”

#ArtificialIntelligence #SiriAI #AppleIntelligence #FutureOfComputing

https://apple.news/A2NtjyWbCQqi3-_TC-_iw5g

One more thing: Why future Apple devices may see physical interactions and even apps disappear — MacLife

> One more thing

New features incoming for Mastodon!

“After many months of design, development, gathering feedback, and testing, today we’re releasing a big update with Mastodon 4.6. The headliner of this release is Collections, a way to create and share curated collections of profiles.”

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Collections #SocialMedia

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Mastodon 4.6

In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibility issues.

Mastodon Blog

How incompetent does one need to be to lose a war that one started? 🙄

“It looks as if Trump’s war on Iran has cost the U.S. the lives of thirteen service members, injuries to 400 more, and at least $132 billion so far in immediate costs, lost income, and higher consumer costs, only to leave the U.S. in a significantly worse place with regard to Iran than before Trump started bombing.”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsALoser #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #IranWar #IranMOU

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-17-2026

June 17, 2026

A senior U.S.

Letters from an American
A question for anyone running the #iPadOS27Beta1: Has Slide Over been restored to its full multi-app glory? Or is it still relegated to being a one-app-at-a-time afterthought? I’m assuming the latter since I haven’t heard anything about it, but I might have lost the news amidst all the hullabaloo over #SiriAI and other #WWDC announcements. It would be great to have #SlideOver back to its full functionality once again!

Grift and corruption is all he knows: “We are about to see if Trump’s focus on cheating the system for his own ends and distracting from his actions with spectacle will work over something as huge as the Iran war and Americans’ constitutional rights.” 🤬

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #IranWar #IranWarCosts #TrumpCircus #TrumpIsAGrifter #TrumpCorruption #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-15-2026

June 15, 2026

President Donald J.

Letters from an American

“We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution. ... At the same time, droughts, megafires, floods and heatwaves remind us that our economies are pushing the planet beyond its limits.

These are not separate crises. They are symptoms of an economic model that has reached the end of the road.”

#ClimateCrisis #Poverty #EconomicGrowth #Economics #NewEconomicModel

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/economists-maths-growth-doomed-strategy-un-agencies-political-leaders

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

The Guardian
iOS 27 fixes three of the most annoying Messages bugs - 9to5Mac

iOS 27 focuses heavily on bug fixes and performance improvements across apps like Safari, Mail, Calendar, and more. In the...

9to5Mac