Musk has made many many many mistakes with Twitter, but eliminating link text might not be one of them. It is kind of dumb and annoying, but not pulling in any text from the linked-to page seems to solve the whole “link tax” problem legacy media has sold to politicians. Their whole argument is that by showing…

I’ll have to see what “magnetic attachment” means, but I’m skeptical. I thought the easy-change latch for watch bands might have been the single best innovation to come out of the watch, and the best part is it is a positive physical lock so I know the band is secure.

Age verification is a security nightmare. They can’t keep password lists safe, how are we to believe the companies can keep your personal information for age verification safe?

This has never been about Google “stealing” news. If the news groups don’t like their news shared by Google they can add a robots.txt file to their website to block the search crawlers. Google should not have to pay a link tax to send clicks to them.

I would be happy if my laptop had less battery. I mostly use it as a portable-but-plugged-in computer. Only rarely do I ever use it away from a wall. I would gladly sacrifice battery for more CPU/GPU, memory, or HD space (much less of a problem these days).

> Replying “ok...” can leave a text reader feeling as if you’re leaving something unsaid.

Great idea. Wont help.

“You’re going to use this to make weapons?”

I remember reading a bit about Thanos and how his big weakness is that he subconsciously sabotages himself. Deep down he does not think he deserves to rule the universe, so he stops himself from doing the job right.

All I could think of is the stoopid commercial...