What Happens When a Group of 12-Year-Olds Is Left with No Supervision for Five Days?
Jason Kottke: “After a brief attempt at cleaning, the boys completely trash their house, eat mostly sugar, divide into factions, and somehow trash the house even more.”
Who are the most influential and important people in history?
Jesus, Mohammed, the Buddha, Genghis Khan, Augustus Caesar, and Napoleon are 1-6, in that order.
Who else is in the top 12?
People who wear short pants and long sleeve, heavy sweatshirts in chilly weather are monsters.
People who wear short pants and long sleeve, heavy sweatshirts in chilly weather are monsters.
“I can’t go here. It would be too easy for him to pick up if I go here.” — The dog, looking for a place to poop while we’re out walking.
"… the App Store’s financial success is the worst thing that’s happened to Apple this century. It’s a distraction at best, and a profound corruption at worst." — John Gruber @gruber@mastodon.social
Gruber raises a good point here. The App Store, and general locked-down nature of the iPhone, is Apple at its controlling worst. I should have a right to install whatever software I want on my iPhone, repair it or pay someone else to do so, and modify it however I like, or pay someone else to do so. The limits on my ability to control my phone should be the law and public safety. Apple should not be allowed to make the rules here.
And don’t accuse me of going full Elon here. A phone is not a social network.
Mastodon is getting popular enough that it’s going to start attracting litigation and regulation. — Amanda Hoover on Ars Technica