The Repubs are coming uncloaked. Their slogan might as well be Revenge. It’s the one thing everyone who votes for Trump wants more than anything. They hate their lives, and are looking for someone to release their rage on.
A level-headed evaluation of decisions and policies made during the pandemic is helpful and needed, but that’s not at all what happened here. Instead, there were empty, unhelpful questions lacking nuance and depth, and at worst, unhinged harassment of public servants.
— Katelyn Jetelina, “Your Neighborhood Epidemiologist,” on the Fauci Congressional hearings
Did we really need the most screen time given to the Math Notes feature of the all-new and astonishing Calculator app for iPad? Probably not.
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”—Aldous Huxley
In a secret recording, Justice Alito’s wife vowed revenge for the flag controversy.
“You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you,” Martha-Ann Alito said in the recording of a private conversation at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3.
“There will be a way, it doesn’t have to be now, but there will be a way they know,” she added.
The Alitos claim to be devout Christians. Where in the Bible did Jesus say, “You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you”?
A study found that a quarter of bosses hoped return-to-office mandates would make employees quit
A study claims to have proof of what some have suspected: return to office mandates are just back-channel layoffs and post-COVID work culture is making everyone miserable.
To do the study, HR software firm BambooHR surveyed more than 1500 employees, 1/3 of whom worked in HR.
According to the report, most employees working remotely and in-person both feel the need to demonstrate productivity, which for more than a third of employees means being seen socializing and moving around the office.
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Away from the office, employees feel the need to demonstrate presence by being hyper-available and never going offline - the so-called “green status effect,” the data suggests.
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22 percent of HR professionals who responded to the survey admitted that, despite going the RTO route, they had no metrics in place to measure success.
In other words, companies have been hasty with RTO plans, some have no way to gauge whether it’s been positive, and meanwhile employees are miserable (even those who work remotely) because of an increase in workplace surveillance culture.
Random thoughts about today's Apple news
AI? I guess it’s cool, but none of the demos I’ve heard about look all that interesting. If Siri is better able to understand what I tell it to do, that would be a breakthrough. If I say, “remind me to… “ Siri should know that I want it to add a reminder to Omnifocus, not Reminders. I don’t use Reminders.
AirPods are getting the ability to respond to Siri shaking your head. That sounds useful. I wonder whether my four-year-old Airpods Pro will support that.
Apple is bringing automatic window tiling to Sequoia. I’ve been happy with Raycast for that but we’ll see what Apple does with it.
Standalone Passwords app? Yes please. We’ve never been able to get 1Password family sharing working right.
New photo search and magic eraser look interesting. Yes, I know Android has had those things for a while.
The ability to mirror the iPhone on the Mac seems great, but I wonder whether I would ever use that.
The iPadOS update is disappointing. I’m far from the first person to point out that the iPad is Maserati-class hardware paired with a 1968 Volkswagen operating system.
The customizable control center on the iPhone looks nice. Voice memos app including transcriptions, and the ability to record calls and transcribe them can be extremely useful in my line of work; I currently rely on pricey third-party services for that kind of thing.
Justice Alito was caught on tape “discussing the difficulty of living ‘peacefully’ with ideological opponents in the face of ‘fundamental’ differences that ‘can’t be compromised.’ He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to ‘return our country to a place of godliness.’ And Alito offered a blunt assessment of how America’s polarization will ultimately be resolved: One side or the other is going to win.’”
Alito swore an oath to the God he claims to worship that he would uphold the Constitution. But that oath was a lie.