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Is “a Japanese” really the proper way to say “a Japanese person” in English? It sounds so wrong to me, as in de-humanising somehow. I’d never call someone or a hypothetical someone “an English” or “a French”. Though, now I think of it, I would use “a German” or “an Austrian”. The hell is going on with the English language here?

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Matt Wilcox 10h ago

- OSX ever worse each year
- Apple Intelligence: failed to deliver most promised features
- Apple Intelligence "delivered": Not what anyone wants
- Donated a million to Trump
- Contempt of EU orders ongoing
- Contempt of US Judges ongoing
- Contempt of developers exposed in legal proceedings
- Utter inability to see their own hubris and arrogance
- Scared to face questions by non-Apple people

Matt Wilcox 11h ago

"in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined."

Apple are so on the back foot in _every_ area of external perception that they're even avoiding the ever-soft-ball "practically got Tim's hand puppeteering him" Gruber.

Pathetic, Apple. Weak. Incredibly weak.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/29/the-talk-show-live-tickets-2025

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025: Tuesday June 10

Link to: https://ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2025

Daring Fireball

Matt Wilcox 15h ago

More of this from more and larger artists please.

Use your power of influence, in the methods you already influence with. Not just as small statements in other mediums.

Kudos Kate Nash, baller move.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2MoQJP-PhA

Kate Nash - GERM (Official Lyric Video)

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Matt Wilcox 22h ago

Matt Gray 1d ago

Politicians and pundits pit us against each other over bathroom signs, while CEOs get richer and we struggle to make ends meet.

Scapegoating trans women for bathroom “dangers” deflects our anger from their profit while we fear, and distracts from the real threat to women: predatory men who assault and abuse

Matt Wilcox 1d ago

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Nice to see that such a well managed, focussed, and in-tune-with-their-users corporation as Mozilla is now, of course, open sourcing the "we somehow failed to monetise our acquisitions" parts of its business.

A shame, but they must, of course, instead chase that AI and other buzzword stuff their audience so desires...

/sarcasm

Investing in what moves the internet forward | The Mozilla Blog

Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu

Matt Wilcox 1d ago

JA Westenberg 2d ago

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

Matt Wilcox 1d ago

Ok, I'm going to try Darkroom again but this time toss out all of my concepts about photo editing I've used for decades, and just read the manual.

Superficial similarities seem to be misleading - it's not using the same concepts as other software.

(Though I wish they didn't assume you want the database in the default location... tell me how to move the database to external storage! I do not want it on my local machine!)

Matt Wilcox 1d ago

azteclady 2d ago

#PSA: if you are in the UK...

This is not a drill: Sir Ian McKellen will open an all-trans, non-binary production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"!!!

July 25, 2025, in London--and it's a fundraiser for a trans charity!

Get thee there!

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-ian-mckellen-to-open-historic-all-trans-and-nonbinary-production-of-twelfth-night-484397/

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

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