Favorites June 18 2021
@marcoarment @nickheer I humbly propose that whichever executive is ultimately (if not proximally) responsible for these “hidden UI” travesties has their profile on apple.com moved to a page that’s only reachable via a tiny, low-contrast “ellipsis” menu.
A bunch more interface elements are going to be hidden within "..." overflows in the upcoming versions of iOS and MacOS. Most notably, they’re hiding the refresh button. Here's a short article about it if you're interested.
Please don’t pretend to be a nazi to show how much you support the First Amendment. You have the right to do it, of course, but it still makes you look like a fucking nazi.
As Kurt Vonnegut said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Or, more colorfully, there's Popehat's rule of goats.
“I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself,” writes @MsAlmagor, a public charter school teacher in Washington, D.C.
If the pandemic had turned out to have different characteristics, maybe our actions would have made sense. But our handling of schooling was clearly a mistake.
It is not as fun to yell about as history curriculum choices but the stakes in the phonics debate seem a lot a higher.
I had never heard of the 3 queuing system, what a disaster. There's a podcast version of this same article as well. Highly recommended
The batman sex drama continues, if that’s your thing.