It’s funny bc there’s actually been zero important painters for something like four decades
― silby, Friday, 8 May 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
latest post indicates he's earning about $25k/month from his new 15-minute daily podcast
― sean gramophone, Friday, 15 May 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
im banky
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Friday, 15 May 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
banky!!!!! Hello
― silby, Friday, 15 May 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
Ok I checked the numbers they are basically correct.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
(Sorry that first sentence is from a draft post on another thread lol zing)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 May 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
xp a deep love of the work of Stanley Kubrick
― mh, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
Opinions about fonts
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 May 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
cocktail recipes
― silby, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
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?
― mh, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
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.”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
A head-scratcher
― silby, Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
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
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
They’re all stupid sorry
― carin' (map), Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
If I have one article of faith it’s that “people are stupid” and “these people are stupid” are poor explanations for anything
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― carin' (map), Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
“Acting stupid” vs “being stupid” is a useful distinction here that I hadn’t really considered, thanks.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
sure
― carin' (map), Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
That kind of distinction comes up a lot in parenting. Even for compliments.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
yeah lot to chew on there re: acting stupid. been thinking bout this stuff too
― brimstead, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
its all how you act, averaged out
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 July 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
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.
― DJI, Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Wow
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
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!
― irn-scamp (mh), Friday, 4 September 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
maybe the world finally broke grubes
― irn-scamp (mh), Friday, 4 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
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).
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 13 March 2021 06:11 (three years ago) link
You mean like having regular stereo speakers?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
No, this is different.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:36 (three years ago) link
why not go quadraphonic HomePod
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link
homequad
he is such an arsehole https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm
― stet, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
without clicking I'm going to infer he's chiming in for some godawful reason on the Basecamp kerfuffle
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
lol gotta be
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
he was also right about this: "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"
― akm, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
oh but he's wrong about basecamp if in fact he's indicating support for them
― akm, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah it’s Basecamp. And he then got the mildest amount of stick on Twitter and is now on about how Twitter is a hate machine.
― stet, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
zzzzzzz how predictable
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
he is _such_ an arsehole https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm🕸
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
the man is an expert in everything
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
chrrrrist
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-work
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
lmao what a fucking loser
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
real "I pay you so you have to do anything I say" vibes there
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
so much for his "I'm going to read and learn from having my ass handed to me about Basecamp"
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
where did he say that?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
― stet, Monday, June 7, 2021 1:29 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
hes so transparently ignorant with this companies are not democracies shit, meanwhile at actual apple theyre dealing with the simple truth that keeping employees happy is important to their business
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
On Basecamp, I’ve made a few assumptions that have been right, but more that have been wrong. So I feel I’m better off — for now — listening, reading, and learning, not talking, writing, or preaching.— John Gruber (@gruber) May 5, 2021
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
well a month’s enough of that surely
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Wait til he hears about trade unions. The gall of these people
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link