indefensible: john gruber

the. whole. you-know-what.

*waggles eyebrows* jerking off in front of his coworkers

jesus christ

Came here hoping the grubes thread would have an update. Was not disappointed.

found a new new gruber-like guy to read. has elaborate stories about his ipad docking setup. casually mentions his $2k sony headphones

twitter.com/on3ness?

indefensible

Huh he’s deleted it

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/17/sincerely-louis-ck- he added an “update”

twitter.com/on3ness?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, April 18, 2020 2:57 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow ok

what did the update say? It's still 404 here

here (trailing hyphen missed by the hyperlink regex)

Originally he posted it without acknowledging it at all, no you know what phrase.

One sentence too long

Thread title otm

Without question, in my mind, Banksy is the most important painter of our time.

lmfbo

It’s funny bc there’s actually been zero important painters for something like four decades

latest post indicates he's earning about $25k/month from his new 15-minute daily podcast

im banky

banky!!!!! Hello

Ok I checked the numbers they are basically correct.

latest post indicates he's earning about $25k/month from his new 15-minute daily podcast

(Sorry that first sentence is from a draft post on another thread lol zing)

xp a deep love of the work of Stanley Kubrick

Opinions about fonts

cocktail recipes

looked at the podcast post and it's amazing how he managed to make a bulleted list of changes into a series of short essays

the podcast is likely no less concise, eh?

He’s just fucking with us as this point

“Among his many memorable roles, a favorite of mine was Shelby Forthright, the CEO of Buy-N-Large in WALL-E.”

A head-scratcher

Saw he ended a post about some anti-mask agitators in Utah with the judgment that they’re all “stupid” which is just phenomenal on his part, not eugenicist at all

They’re all stupid sorry

If I have one article of faith it’s that “people are stupid” and “these people are stupid” are poor explanations for anything

i hear you, i've been thinking a lot about it lately. i want to not believe in the concept of stupidity but i find it pretty difficult. like i think it's obviously meant to be belittling so that part of it is .. stupid lol .. and not really insightful if the goal is to understand someone's behavior. in the case of john gruber it says more about him than the subject. on the other hand i think that people definitely get some sort of validation from performing stupidity. my experience with this group of utah valley mormons is that there is a certain faction that functions and bonds together through performances of stupidity.. i.e. ignoring and rejecting behaviors that are outside the bounds of their magical thinking belief systems. it reinforces group identity and the local hierarchy. even if these people are smart in other ways - they obviously possess some kind of native intelligence and range of cognitive skills if they're existing day to day - they are being stupid here: performing stupidity. i'm sorry but that's absolutely what they're doing and ultimately i think it's disingenuous and condescending not to be forthright about what their behavior is. it's being stupid. they love it and get off on it, it performs a function for them.

“Acting stupid” vs “being stupid” is a useful distinction here that I hadn’t really considered, thanks.

sure

That kind of distinction comes up a lot in parenting. Even for compliments.

yeah lot to chew on there re: acting stupid. been thinking bout this stuff too

its all how you act, averaged out

Very OTM in this rant:

Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. They talk in circles but their argument boils down to entitlement: they think our privacy is theirs for the taking because they’ve been getting away with taking it without our knowledge, and it is valuable. No action Apple can take against the tracking industry is too strong.

Wow

if Apple added some new api for delivering ads he’d be like “well I don’t like ads, but Apple is ensuring quality ads”

he’s otm in this post, though!

saw a post a couple weeks ago where he said working at facebook was like working for nazis or something, credit where credits due grubers on a roll

maybe the world finally broke grubes

I love my HomePods, but clearly the market deemed them too expensive. I think part of the problem is that the real HomePod experience is having two of them paired — they sound more than twice as good as a single HomePod. So to get the real HomePod experience, it’s $600 (and used to be $700).

You mean like having regular stereo speakers?

No, this is different.

why not go quadraphonic HomePod

homequad

he is such an arsehole
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm

without clicking I'm going to infer he's chiming in for some godawful reason on the Basecamp kerfuffle