Even when you buy the product. In this case, Apple owners. Apple has been listening and sharing data with third parties (selling). Get in line, you can get up to $100 when they get things set up. From Ars Technica.
Category: Opinion
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Facebook or Fakebook?
Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to populate Facebook and Instagram with AI-created “members”. Oh joy. From Rolling Stone. (4 clicks to get through the ads.)
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Nolan is Doing The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan is teaming up with Homer on the best action story of the last 3,000 years. Read about it at Kottke. (Illustration mine).
Christopher Nolan is known for directing some of our most important films like Tenet, Inception, Interstellar, Oppenheimer and a bunch of Batmans. I couldn’t hink of a better match. Out mid-2026.
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Words of Culture, Culture of Words
Nowhere better can you find the nuances of culture than in the words that are used. Nancy Friedman tracks those at Fritinancy. This year we get a bonus, wordS, not just word.
My favorite: The Fall of the Broman Empire, on the X-odus of people from Musk’s vanity website. Others include 4B (from Korea), Debank, social tonic (laced with THC), Pretendians. I have a couple of young HENRYs in my family tree. And there is the Hawk Tuah girl.
I can tell Nancy has been around a while at this game because she is writing on TypePad, a platform that had its heyday many years ago.
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Rotating Sandwiches
At least 6, and maybe 8, of these Rotating Sandwiches are not sandwiches. But controversy aside, this is a great resource for language teaching. Besides our yes/no, we can compare, we can guess the prices, we can list ingredients, we can make recipes. I’m sure there is more. Thanks to Kottke for the link.
