Joe Biden and those in Congress that continue to support arming Israel are supporting war crimes and genocide. They are war criminals. Biden Administration Goes Full Genocide Denial For Israel - YouTube | Continue reading
After WWDC 2022 Federico Viticci was very loud in his advocacy that Stage Manager should be optimized to run on older iPads many of which had only 4 to 6GB of memory. In his recent post about Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right - MacStories he’s complaining that Stage M … | Continue reading
Life in the woods: I’m sitting on my futon writing when I hear a sound in the cabin. Rosie (my feline friend) jumps up. It’s a bird that has flown through the open screen door. It circles and lands. Takes flight again and finds its way out the door. Yay! Crisis averted. I sit bac … | Continue reading
Middle class Americans don’t care much about the future inhabitability of the planet but they love their homes and possessions, this may get their attention. Yes, the climate emergency is coming for you too. The New York Times on the collapse of the US home insurance system: Acro … | Continue reading
Today is Nakba Day - Wikipedia . Nakba Day ( ‘Memory of the Catastrophe’) is the day of commemoration for the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majorit … | Continue reading
The Majority Report discussion of a clip of Zbigniew Brzezinski discussing American policy in the Middle East 22 years ago in the run up to the Iraq War. Just a glimpse of the long running violence and the policy failures leading to the violence of the current moment. …the Israel … | Continue reading
What This Jewish Professor At Columbia Wants You To Know - YouTube For over seven months, a dominant conversation in the U.S. news media has been about alleged and increased antisemitism on American campuses - culminating in the coverage around student encampments… In this interv … | Continue reading
A few observations and thoughts on the dynamics of the Apple enthusiast community in the narrative of the past 8 years evolution of the iPad and Mac as Apple platforms. A bit of attention paid to the role of podcasters/publishers in how the narrative was created and how it evolve … | Continue reading
I rearranged and refreshed the hugelculture beds in my garden a few days ago and found these under a half rotted log. Not sure about the white ones but the other is Sarcoscypha coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet elf cup, or the scarlet cup. | Continue reading
It’s been clear for months that Israel is carrying out genocide in Palestine. And yet I still see Americans suggest it’s not happening, not genocide. Just two days ago a blogger citing the New York Times to suggest that the problem is confirmation bias and TikTok having undue inf … | Continue reading
Army Major and Pentagon Officer Resigns Over US Support of Gaza Genocide | Truthout Another Biden administration official has resigned over the U.S.’s unconditional support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza — this time a senior officer in the U.S. Army who also served as an intelligen … | Continue reading
This comment from a thread at MacRumors about Joanna Stern’s iPad Pro review explains a point I’ve been trying to make for awhile: It can be frustrating to repeatedly highlight that many tech reviewers overlook that their use of a computer is not the only use of computers. Apart … | Continue reading
Democracy Now! Interview with Pulitzer Winning author and journalist Nathan Thrall on Israel’s “System of Domination” and Biden Pausing Bomb Shipment - YouTube We speak to Thrall about… Israel’s intensified crackdown in the West Bank, how criticism of Israel is conflated with ant … | Continue reading
USA & Israel Defy World in Vote To Make Palestine Full UN Member - ZNetwork 143 countries, representing the vast majority of the world, voted at the UN General Assembly to support giving Palestine full membership. They were opposed by the US, Israel, and seven other small states, … | Continue reading
“We Are Going to Rally an Army”: Christian Zionists and Far-Right Zealots Are Actually Trying to Take Over Colleges - In These Times As the Gaza solidarity encampments disrupt business as usual at U.S. universities, Christian Zionists and many far-Right groups are trying to seize … | Continue reading
UN Officials Describe “Absolutely Catastrophic” Conditions in Gaza – Mother Jones A senior UNICEF official for Gaza, Hamish Young, issued a statement on Saturday warning that “families lack proper sanitation facilities, drinking water and shelter,” and that “people are making imp … | Continue reading
How Zionism became a synonym for violence and oppression | The Guardian For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zi … | Continue reading
Canada continues to burn Canada wildfire: Thousands evacuate in British Columbia, winds push smoke into Alberta | AP News The blaze, which started Friday, almost doubled in size the following day, reaching about 17 square kilometers (4,200 acres). BC Wildfire Service maps showed … | Continue reading
More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation | The Guardian … following attacks by counter-protesters on pro-Palestinian student demonstrators and a violent police raid of the Gaza solidarity encampment on campus last week. More than a hundred profess … | Continue reading
Discussing Apple’s recent iPad marketing on his website Tedium, Ernie Smith discusses what’s wrong with Apple’s marketing to creatives in 2024, particularly the marketing of the iPad to creatives. He and I had had a conversation on Mastodon the day before and he mentions me in th … | Continue reading
Currently Apple’s iPad playlist on YouTube has 4 videos. Let me say that again. Apple’s YouTube playlist for iPad has FOUR videos and one of those is for the “all-new iPad Mini” from two years ago. THAT. IS. RIDICULOUS. Apple, make an effort to demonstrate how an iPad can be a us … | Continue reading
Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing – The Marginalian “The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more bittersweet than in the creature whose body is the oldest unchanged musical instru … | Continue reading
An important step forward for the Palestinians. UNGA votes in favour of expanding Palestine’s rights | Al Jazeera Newsfeed - YouTube With overwhelming support, Palestine has been granted expanded rights and privileges in its status at the UN. 143 nations voted in favour, with 9 a … | Continue reading
Doc Rock on the May 7th episode of MacBreak Weekly is the first podcaster I’ve heard to clearly call-out the ridiculous iPad hot takes so common these days, especially in regard to the iPad Pro. “It’s funny when a lot of the conversation around the pro or the not pro is always ab … | Continue reading
Buckle in, this is a longer post based on a couple of very interesting iPad-related conversations I’ve had recently. It begins with an email from Justin Harter, who is a graphic designer, teacher and writer. We had an enjoyable exchange largely focused on our workflows for image … | Continue reading
Mehdi Hasan on the Majority Report last week on the media presentation of the student protests as violent: They get attacked by pro-Israel counter protesters on Sunday and Wednesday night. Jewish professors like David Myers, distinguished history professor at UCLA, Dov Waxman, ch … | Continue reading
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target | The Guardian Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agree … | Continue reading
Not surprising. We continue to move in the wrong direction. Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere | The Guardian The largest ever recorded leap in the amount of carbon dioxide laden in the world’s atmosphere has just occurred, according to researchers who m … | Continue reading
Student Journalists Face Storm of Campus Protest Disinformation | WIRED As campus protests reached new peaks last week, student newspapers like the Columbia Spectator at Columbia University were not only tasked with covering their peers but also the false and alarming narratives … | Continue reading
The US is propping up gas while the world moves to renewable energy - The Verge “The decline of power sector emissions is now inevitable. 2023 was likely the pivot point – a major turning point in the history of energy. But the pace … depends on how fast the renewables revolution … | Continue reading
In the latest Upgrade Jason Snell’s just a broken record repeating his own nonsense at this point. His big storyline is the M4 iPad Pro is too expensive, too powerful for iPadOS. He wants to know what its use case is, who is it for? But, now, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Thirteen mont … | Continue reading
FULL BLOWN FAMINE in northern Gaza Senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in ‘full-blown famine’ : NPR A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli re … | Continue reading
It’s frustrating (though not surprising) to see the distorted media presentation of violence at the Pro-Palestinian protests on campuses last week. Most notably the UCLA protest where police did nothing as masked Pro-Israel counter “protestors” attacked the student encampment Tue … | Continue reading
The scene around my tiny house in the woods yesterday was one of flowers sparkling in raindrops. | Continue reading
Fascinating. A Clockwork Orange, White Supremacy, and Palestine by Politically Depressed A Clockwork Orange is not about human nature, it’s about European fascism. This is at least my reading of it. I’ve been thinking a lot about it as we’re seeing the European centre shift drast … | Continue reading
Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Bernie Sanders is excellent and worth a listen. Sanders on the US media allowing Netanyahu to define anti-Semitism. “What he has done is deflect attention, and the American media by and large has fallen for it, to say any protest against Israe … | Continue reading
Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza - YouTube Democracy Now! speaks with Hala Rharrit, the first State Department diplomat to publicly resign over the Biden administration’s policies backing Israel’s assault and siege of the Gaza Strip. Rharrit is an 18-year … | Continue reading
A speckled king snake cozied up in a rotting log in a hugelculture bed in my garden. | Continue reading
Divesting from an apartheid state actively engaged in land theft, war crimes and genocide is not controversial. We have become so completely corrupted that investing in genocide is now accepted. Calls to Divest From Israel Put Students and Donors on Collision Course - The New Yor … | Continue reading
Mass die-offs and constant crisis will define the brutality of our future as we attempt and fail to adapt to a completely destabilized climate. Mass fish die-off in Vietnam as heat wave roasts Southeast Asia Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietn … | Continue reading
A War Against Humanity Itself | Common Dreams Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s “voracious death machine,” its leaders now openly vow “total and utter destruction” by what they still grotesquely call “one of the m … | Continue reading
It has begun! I found this year's cicadas in my garden this morning. Magicicada septendecim, sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada or the 17-year locust, is native to Canada and the United States and is the largest and most northern species of periodical cicada with a 17-year lifec … | Continue reading
Salt Marsh Caterpillar found in my garden this morning. | Continue reading
Violence AGAINST Anti-War Student Protesters Escalates Across The US - YouTube Sam parses through yesterday’s mass escalation of violence against anti-war student protesters on college campuses across the US, with the NYPD sending a SWAT team to infiltrate the Student occupation … | Continue reading
U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can’t Prosecute Israel for War Crimes - Democracy Now The Biden administration is claiming the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction to charge Israeli officials for war crimes. This comes after rumors that the ICC may … | Continue reading
The Preacher and the Slave - Wikipedia “The Preacher and the Slave” is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911. It was written as a parody of the Christian hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By”. Copying or using the musical style of the hymn was also a way to capture the emotional resonance o … | Continue reading