Is there any company more out of touch with creatives right now than Apple?

It feels incredibly weird to say this, but it sadly is true. Asking for 30% from Patreon subscriptions – in this climate – is garbage.

Read the room.

https://wavelengths.online/posts/thirty-percent

Since it’s come up again - if you use new Outlook and Mail in Windows 11, it automatically syncs all your email and contacts into Microsoft’s cloud - even if you use a third party mail provider.

There’s no option to decline.

Pretty obviously, consider the risk.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/sync-your-account-in-outlook-to-the-microsoft-cloud-985f9e19-d308-4e85-9d1d-0c6f32f8e981

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”