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@fox the big tell is that the AI companies themselves aren’t doing any layoffs
@mattro I bet they are overwhelmed. I saw a chart showing the number of App Store submissions has sky rocketed over the past year
As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

@tylerhall Apple didn’t follow their own advice, but the guidelines recommend only adding icons where it makes sense

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/menus#Icons

Menus | Apple Developer Documentation

A menu reveals its options when people interact with it, making it a space-efficient way to present commands in your app or game.

Apple Developer Documentation

@siracusa imagine the signups Apple Arcade would get if they just threw truckloads of money at this. What a missed opportunity

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/bluey-video-game-halfbrick-studios-brisbane/106113906

As it is, it’s a one time payment of $18, which of course I will pay

Halfbrick Studios CEO Shainiel Deo on creating the first Bluey video game made in Brisbane

Halfbrick Studios, the company behind Fruit Ninja, has created the first ever Bluey video game made in Australia.

ABC News
Facebook has the opportunity to do something right for a change and poach Alan Dye. Cmon zuck, make it happen
@daringfireball @gruber how do you feel about the robot personalities in murderbot?
@caseyliss @lexfri this has a “code smell” but for LLM
@mattro is that a beta version? It’s showing up differently for me

@siracusa In case no-one else has said anything yet, sub-vocalisation is apparently a real thing. Reading about this fun research is how I first learned about it

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131011093829.htm

Popcorn at the movies: Oral interference sabotages advertising effects

Advertising uses repetition to increase consumers’ preference for brands. Initially, novel brands gain in popularity due to repetition, which increases the likelihood that consumers later buy the brands. Particularly for novel brands, excessive exposure and repetition is necessary to establish the brand name in the first place.

ScienceDaily