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🇭🇹 Founding editor at IT Brew. Formerly TIME, Gizmodo, Consumer Reports. Nobody touches my peppers. itbrew.com patbits.com
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Saw this banner again today. This time... with an Israeli flag.

I find it appalling that you’re stabbing me with a knife right now. Abhorrent behavior. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, sir. Have you no decency? Your blade pierces tender sinew and muscle at great personal detriment to me personally, and yet, you persist.

Wrote a column about why it’s a great time to move from PCs to Macs. And I’m saying this as a PC desktop builder. For laptops you just get much better hardware and software, unless you need PC games www.engadget.com/computing/as...

Just running things on vibes and Neuralink

It cannot be overstated by journalists that the U.S. no longer has any functional federal consumer protection standards

My thoughts on F1 the Movie: Turn your brain off a bit and it rips www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

you know what would help this is a blanket ten year moratorium on ALL state and federal AI oversight for the next decade, proposed by some of the most corrupt, shittiest assholes imaginable

wrote about the state of anime in 2025 for @vulture.com and @tvmojoe.bsky.social's Buffering newsletter

If 20 people broke the law then 20 people need to be removed. This argument is so weird to me. What principles are worth standing for? Why make their argument for them?

employees and readers of this website should be laughed out of polite society and pelted with rotten gourds until unconscious

I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going! No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

They should do one summer event during the Winter Olympics to be fun, like “breakfast for dinner.”

Space stuff always cheers me up. This article is fascinating and so exciting www.wired.com/story/openin...

OpenAI went to the trouble of hiring Jony Ive to make their flagship AI device and the whole time planned to just steal a product from another company (IVO) they pretended to be interested in while spying on them. also they were going to use almost the same name (Io). laziness just off the charts

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Reading the legal complaint, Iyo Products’ claims are extremely damning - they allege both Jon Ive, along with Sam Altman and his associated entities (like his VC firm Apollo Projects) have been intentionally pretending to invest in Iyo’s Products as a means of getting technical info *SINCE 2022*.

There is nothing more NYC than being like "oh wait, I can walk there in just a few hours, let's do it"

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

Florida congresswoman was denied care for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy because of the state’s strict and vague anti-abortion law, which she herself supported. Her response is to blame the left for “fearmongering.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“In fact, there's a municipality in São Paulo called Americana, established in 1875 and still in existence. Americana has a population of more than 230,000 and hosts an annual festival celebrating Confederate culture, which is primarily centered on the plow and owning slaves.”

It’s so crazy how people are talking to AI like it’s their best friend and trying to convince people it’s normal, I thought we solved this in the 90s when Geordi fell in love with hologram Leah Brahms? HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING?

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GET IT TOGETHER

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

STORY TIME: ICE rolled up. The city of Bell, California said, “Not today!”

A white nationalist student at the U of Florida won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

Give Amtrak DoD's budget

No no what did you want to say that you can't anymore? Be real specific

A message from Bernie as we head into the final weekend before the election.

Good evening from Inwood Hill Park, the very top of Manhattan. For the first time in a long time, I’m wearing my sneakers because tonight we’re walking the whole island. See you in the streets.

I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS AGAIN

something low key racist about “black people in new york will obviously give a shit about an endorsement from an elderly south carolinian with no connection to the city or its politics”

I’m calling it “The Tuvix.”