@smokedpixel

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Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing that verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

Tuesday, April 7th. Catie Laffoon speaks absolute truth to the LA City Police Commission about LAPD violence against protestors. 🔥🧨

"You guys better watch out because you are starving an entire fucking city and they have nothing left to lose."

Via @KatanaSpeaks on Twitter.

#LosAngeles #LAPD #CatieLaffoon #LosAngelesPoliceCommission #ICE #ACAB #NoKings #Protest

As an almost 70 year old man, I have some advice for young men.

Please boost this if you think it will help

1. Your voice doesn't NEED to be heard. In fact, realizing that you don’t HAVE to have an opinion on everything and voice opinions or ideas in meetings or social gatherings, is amazingly liberating. You can actually just shut up, and relieve yourself of all that effort and stress. Let Bob utter his embarrassingly dumb idea, let Shirley have a say. You can just let it be for the most part

The instinct to build a pricing menu comes from the same place as the instinct to add features before launch. It ~feels like diligence. I think it's mostly procrastination.

Why solopreneurs need to pick one number:

https://www.selfonomics.com/p/why-solopreneurs-need-to-pick-one

Why solopreneurs need to pick one number

Your pricing table is an illusion

SELFONOMICS
This is your reminder that Chuck Norris was a hateful, racist ghoul.
Apple TV already list “F1” as an Oscar Winner but somehow Grok, X and other apps that create non-consensual porn, even of children, are still on the App Store. Weird!
@smokedpixel I can show you a hundred 1970’s movie clips with shallow depth of field too
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

The most exciting chase scene in cinema this year is a pair of hounds chasing a hare across a snowy plain. https://kottke.org/26/03/a-miraculous-escape
A Miraculous Escape

A pair of hounds chase a hare across a snowy plain — will it get away? In Mario Kart terms, the dogs have the weight and max speed advantage while the hare

kottke.org

A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑

What are we doing here?