Federico Viticci 
I just tried Apple Vision Pro. It's been the most mind-blowing moment of my career. I'm speechless.
More thoughts soon.
Janak J Parekh
@janakj
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Equal parts unabashed intellectual, fine arts connoisseur, technology geek and sports enthusiast. Lifelong New Yorker transplanted to California.
The 2023 WWDC keynote was the first one where I watched *all* the reactions on Mastodon, not Twitter. Didn’t even feel the need to open Twitter at all. The Apple community has really moved over.
So @MonaApp is out today and immediately takes the crown for most customizable Mastodon client to date. Multiple columns on Mac and iPad, split-screen on iPhone (!), and TONS of settings you can tweak. Insta-purchase for me, with no subscription.
Mona: A Unique Mix of Customization Options and Features You Won’t Find in Any Other Mastodon App
Mona is a brand new, highly customizable Mastodon client from Junyu Kuang, the developer of Spring, which is one of the few remaining third-party Twitter clients that still works and pioneered many of the features found in Mona. Mona, which is available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is a power-user app through and through.
Ross SchulmanHonestly, some real talk, y'all: referring to Elon Musk as "Elmo" has got to stop. It isnt fair and it is dragging a good person's name through the mud.
Elmo clearly is a caring, curious, diligent, and thoughtful Muppet. It doesn't deserve to be compared to the manchild running Twitter.
Mike Masnick ✅I wrote about why Mehdi Hasan's takedown of Matt Taibbi actually destroys the entire foundation of the story Taibbi is trying to tell about the Twitter files. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It
So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): H…
Heidi Li FeldmanSignificant detail regarding #ClarenceThomas failure to disclose multiple gifts of travel from Harlan Crow over the years. In 2004, the LA Times reported on gifts Thomas disclosed he had received from Crow. After this reporting, Thomas didn’t stop accepting gifts from Crow; he just stopped disclosing them. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-04-06/the-times-reported-about-justice-thomas-gifts-20-years-ago-after-he-just-stopped-disclosing-them #JudicialEthics
George LakoffWhen you repeat a lie, even to debunk it, you help to strengthen and spread the lie. When you negate a frame, you evoke the frame.
Remember this when someone provokes you with an absurd lie. Are you falling into a trap?
Remember this when someone provokes you with an absurd lie. Are you falling into a trap?
Casey NewtonI had hoped by now that the media would have begun to divorce Twitter. Instead, some journalists are doubling down.
Some thoughts on why:
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter
Alex StamosI owe Mr. Musk an apology. It turns out that publishing the source code of "The Algorithm" at Twitter *was* actually instructive.