| Location | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Profession | Environmental Planner |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
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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.
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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.
“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
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.”
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
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
“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
iOS 27 fixes three of the most annoying Messages bugs
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/15/ios-27-fixes-three-of-the-most-annoying-messages-bugs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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