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Matt Martin
@voxmatt.bsky.social
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A good dose of perspective for those of us who are feeling incredibly lost in this political moment
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/y...
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In case you weren't already awake, the alarm's ringing.
September 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What if the iPhone Air is an investment in pushing the iPhone down market?

Like in the iPad line, the Air could come down in price over time to occupy the spot of the current iPhone, which then pushes the iPhone down to the "e" line.

I know, unlikely, but maybe?
September 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This. This. This. This. This.

If there were ever a time to fight, let me tell you, it's right fucking now.
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
What a beautiful article. kieranhealy.org/blog/archives...

"That built in to the heart of the United States is the republican ideal not just that anyone can become an American, but that this possibility is what makes the country what it is."
American
In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an inhumanly hot and intolerably humid day, I arrived at Newark Airport to live in the United States. I was twenty two years old and about to start as a graduate student at Princeton. I have been here more or less the whole time since. I spent six years on an F-1 Visa while getting my PhD. After that, I lived and worked in Tucson for seven years. My conception of what counts as an inhumanly hot day changed. During that time I was on an H1-B Visa sponsored by my employer, the University of Arizona. Subsequently, I was granted Permanent Residency—a Green Card—through marriage. In 2009 I moved to North Carolina. My conception of what counts as an intolerably humid day changed. I am an immigrant to this country. I have made my life here. My two children are Americans. And now, as of yesterday, so am I.
kieranhealy.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is just incredibly delightful.
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
aresluna.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm down with Liquid Glass.

Sure, it needs a lot of tweaking, but it's mostly fine. And it's just an incredible amount of fun.

BUT the sidebar is a train wreck.
June 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I'm going to experiment with posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads simultaneously with Croissant.

I'm sure my 5 followers across those services will appreciate the uptick in posts.
‎Croissant - Cross-Posting
‎It's a social network explosion! And you can now post to all of them in one app. Croissant solves that oh-so-2024 problem of wanting to post to all these great new social networks — Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon. Now you can, in one shot. Croissant makes cross-posting buttery smooth. Features: * Se…
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June 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Melissa and her husband were killed. It’s difficult to overstate her centrality to the MN DFL. Former Speaker of the House, current Rep, and a recruiter of our best and brightest.

It’s an unimaginable loss.

I’m hoping Hoffman and his wife come out of surgery okay.
June 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
@avindman.bsky.social I just want to say that you’re an inspiration. Thanks for all of it.

Now let me grab a flag and get marching.
June 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Oh, and try dropping an app into a folder on the springboard; the animation is just about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
June 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Quick reactions after installing iPadOS 26: liquid glass is mostly fun but needs to be dialed in; windowing really is a game-changer; but the added complexity is a lot and makes it feel closer to macOS than iOS (not a bad thing depending on your needs!); and the beta is buggy
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Can we talk about how amazingly good of a buy the 1st Gen 11 in iPad Pro when it was released?

The GOAT.
June 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
@davidpierce.xyz I’m sure you’re drowning in recommendations at this point, but I randomly picked this up and it’s amazing. A tight, griping, story about 80s Soviet/USA spies. Great. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Redefector
Documentary Podcast · Weekly Series · It was 1985, the so-called “Year of the Spy”. The CIA had been losing Soviet assets left and right; the first loss seemed like bad luck, but four in a row? That w...
podcasts.apple.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@gruber.foo I'm sure someone else already mentioned this to you, but I vaguely recalled you *did* mention the SJ compliment on DF by putting "very insightful and not negative" in the masthead (a la "I ♥︎ Amy Jane")
May 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I don't know who needs to be reminded of this, but this album is a masterpiece. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound, a wild symphony of the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece. No music has ever sounded quite like it.
pitchfork.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Living here in America right now feels like that time.

"Stuck riding shotgun in a car with a drunk driver."

terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
What It Feels Like, Right Now
When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …
terribleminds.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It’s too bad the one engineer that works on iOS voicemail has been on vacation for a decade.
December 2, 2024 at 5:51 PM
I have found the darkest of dark patterns. Is this even legal?

Truly "Super."
November 22, 2024 at 4:17 PM
It’s truly disturbing how quietly pervasive Trump support has become in the tech industry.

I guess @karaswisher.bsky.social warned us.
November 20, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Wake me up when Apple Intelligence can accurately tag which twin is which in photos
November 17, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Btw, if you haven’t watched this yet, you’re missing out.
@defunctland.bsky.social ps: thanks for everything you do, and… forgive this painfully shameless self-promotion… but you of all people might really really enjoy this talk i recently did! it’s short! youtu.be/Df_K7pIsfvg?...
Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024)
YouTube video by XOXO Festival
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November 16, 2024 at 10:48 PM
The vibes have shifted.
November 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM