Received my 4th #covid shot today.
Adding HomeKit to my garage door has been one of the most useful HomeKit additions to my house.
Multiverse Saga
Marvel Studios welcomes you to the Multiverse Saga. pic.twitter.com/9L9ZnOFbQS
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) July 24, 2022
Webb deep space picture
It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.
— NASA (@NASA) July 11, 2022
Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I pic.twitter.com/zAr7YoFZ8C
Rogers outage: Telecom says it’s ‘fully engaged’ to fix issues; Fido, Interac customers also impacted by network outages
Isaac Phan Nay writing for The Toronto Star
Many Rogers customers across Canada reported losing mobile and internet services early Friday morning, with the provider eventually confirming the issue hours later. Rogers has not yet released an update on the cause of Friday’s outage.
This is a pretty huge outage, coast to coast, even impacting 9-1-1 service.
iOS audio settings 🔈
iOS, but teenage engineering took over all the audio settings pic.twitter.com/zkQHFPfL91
— George Kedenburg III (@GK3) July 7, 2022
Collective nouns for humans
This poem is a punch in the gut. pic.twitter.com/TXf8QeTaLE
— Nikita Gill (@nktgill) July 4, 2022
Why didn’t you vote against them?
— Margaret E Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) June 30, 2022
In historic reversal, Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, freeing states to outlaw abortion
Roe vs Wade overturned (apple news).
I truly believe we’re witnessing the downfall of America.
Mail Merge returns to Pages after nine years
Dan Moren writing for Six Colors
Version 12.1, released today, brings a brand new implementation, however, which lets you populate a template document either from your contacts or a spreadsheet.
I’ll rarely make use of this, but pretty neat/useful nonetheless.
France 2050 Weather Forcast
In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for August 18, 2050 as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022. pic.twitter.com/10vAIICXNn
— Sylvain Perdigon (@sylvain_anthro) June 15, 2022
The Forest Was Shrinking
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting for the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they thought it was one of them.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 19, 2022
Bill C-11 Enters a Danger Zone: Government Shifts from Ignoring Witnesses on User Content Regulation to Dismissing Criticisms as "Misinformation" - Michael Geist
Michael Geist writing on his blog
This past week was a bad week for democratic governance and Bill C-11. The decision to race through over 100 amendments without public disclosure or debate ran counter to basic democratic norms as the public will never know what changes were proposed in those secret amendments. Now government MPs are resorting to claims of misinformation for testimony they heard directly from one-third of witnesses. The harm that causes will last long after some extra Netflix money is added to the Canadian system.
Great Lakes Mnemonic
Mnemonic device to remember the Great Lakes. pic.twitter.com/PDbaLfDxlv
— Dan White (@atdanwhite) June 15, 2022
Rene Ritchie on Bill C11
Siblings & Minecraft
Today my 7 year-old came into the room crying. I asked him what happened and he said that his 5 year-old brother put 80 cows in his house in Minecraft while he was offline and that it was "entirely too many cows" and honest to christ I have no idea how to parent any of this.
— 🍁Graham Kritzer (@GrahamKritzer) June 14, 2022
I started reading Paper Girls when I heard there was a show coming out in a few weeks. I had it on my list of comics to read for a while. Really enjoying it so far.
Democratic duty done 🗳 #OntarioElection2022
The iPhone Lock Screen Is Poised for an Upgrade With iOS 16
Mark Gurman writing for Bloomberg
That’s probably going to change with iOS 16 and the iPhone 14. Apple is planning major enhancements for the lock screen, including wallpapers that have widget-like capabilities.
Further, I’m told iOS 16 builds in future support for an always-on lock screen, something Apple was originally planning for last year’s iPhone 13. This would allow the iPhone to turn down the frame rate significantly on the lock screen and display quickly glanceable information—similar to newer Apple Watches.
Google Meet Links on iOS
Which of these apps should open a Google Meet link? I bet it’s not the one you would think.
There’s a big problem with Apple and Google’s plans to nix passwords
Jared Newman writing for Fast Company (Apple News)
FIDO’s current proposal has no mechanism for bulk-transferring passkeys between ecosystems. If you want to switch from an Android phone to an iPhone—or vice versa—you won’t be able to easily move all your passkeys over.
And
FIDO does plan to let users copy passkeys one at a time, so if you create an account with an iPhone and want to login on a Windows PC, Microsoft can create its own passkey for that service once you’ve authenticated through your phone.
Opinion | The Ford government is destroying this province. Save Ontario, vote.
Lorraine Sommerfeld writing for The Hamilton Spectator
Our healthcare system is in crisis, yet, somehow the answer to all that ails us, is more highways. Doug Ford has a bizarre fixation on everything automobile, yet his interest has hardly translated into anything meaningful. He forgave the ETR 407 a billion dollars in penalties. And by cancelling two years of plate renewals, he handed back over $2 billion and has yet to tell us where he will find the missing billion dollars a year it generates going forward.
Clever Rats
I train these clever creatures to save victims trapped in collapsed buildings after earthquakes. We kit them out with a rat backpack, and train them to trigger a switch when they find a victim & come back for a tasty treat 🐀#herosnotpests #science #weirdjobs #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/728IQv70NX
— Dr Donna Kean (@donnaeilidhkean) May 26, 2022
Google Messages RCS is being abused for ads in India
These ads are not harmless, either, with many of the examples we’ve seen being for personal loans, a category that tends to be full of predatory practices. One user reports that they were sent one of these ads on a phone that didn’t even have an active SIM card in it.
Not ideal to say the least. Apparently one of the only ways to stop getting these messages entirely is to turn off RCS.
Savathun mask
Savathun mask details are finished and all thats left is to paint it! Also had a lot of requests for voice lines <3 #destiny2 #ad #thewitchqueen @DestinyGameUK @DestinyTheGame pic.twitter.com/Dx23KMpwLd
— Willow Creative (@WillowCreativ) May 20, 2022