This is a good read. ⤵️

'Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius'
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

A great article by nilay patel worth reading about why Elon Musk has jumped into a hellscape he can’t engineer his way out of. I don’t believe this will end well for him, or Twitter users. I give it 12 months before he flips it and loses billions.

theverge.com/2022/10/28/234…

I haven't wandered the electronics section at Target in quite a few years, but it feels like the apocalypse hit and I just missed the looting party! 😵

Best quote I’ve seen yet on what Musk has done in buying Twitter:

“…it looks like Musk dug a big hole in the forest, carefully filled it with punji sticks and crocodiles, and then jumped in.” - Jon Schwarz, Mayor, Arkham MA

For reference, a Punji stick is this horror 😱:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punji_sti…

It might not be a flying car, but this is the coolest “future tech” I’ve seen in a while. If it works as well as they say, it’s a fascinating way of letting you walk 2.5x faster for up to six miles. Very v1, but an impressive start. All yours for $1K. 😜 kickstarter.com/projects/shift…

Here's a #ProTip for anyone in the hospitality industry: if your bananas 🍌 are just as green as your apples 🍏, they aren't quite ready to be served to guests yet. 😆

Since Thomas L. Friedman is usually quite prescient about things, I’m inclined to agree that what he’s thinking will unfold. It all makes scary sense: this is an energy war, and most of the world isn’t ready for it. Sadly, we need *more* fossil fuel sources in the short term. Read ⬇️

It’s almost like the designer of the new iPad looked at the Magic Mouse charging solution, said “Hold my beer”, then came up with this dongled monstrosity. twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1…

Must be “Subscription Service Inflation Week”: the Apple TV+ subscription went up by 20%. It’s only $2 more, but at $4.99 I kept paying it even if months went by where I didn’t watch much content on it. At $6.99 it moved into a different threshold in my mind and so I cancelled.

I had such fun in Thailand attending the #APACCommunitySummit last month! It was wonderful to meet so many AWS builders from our various community programs; people who I might not otherwise see anywhere else. Awesome video! 🥰

#AWScommunity

It’s pretty incredible that YouTube Music YouTube is increasing the price of the #YouTubePremium family plan by 53% in one shot! 😲 There’s nothing new being added here in terms of value; it’s the same as before, just at a much higher monthly rate. Yikes! 🫤

After starting to watch #TheMandalorian for the second viewing, this time with my kids, I am reminded how badly I want to end every statement in my work meetings with “I have spoken” just to see how people would react.

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Dear dbrand,

I really like your #Pixel7 case, but I’d like an option to get them in a less premium and less wasteful presentation box. This looks great but then it goes into the garbage 30 seconds after I open it. 🫤 Charge me the same price but package it simpler. 🙏 Marques Brownlee

I ❤️ the new Tesla app feature that lets me know how far away my wife and kids are as they drive home after school. This a simple way to leverage existing data into a great real-world customer benefit. Fantastic! 🤩

My Made by Google #Pixel7 hard locked today so bad no combination of pressing and holding the power and/or volume buttons would bring it back. Completely unusable for 5+ minutes until it just started working again. I've had the phone a week. This is ridiculous! 🤬

Is it wrong of me to be a *little* bit excited I can finally make iPhone users see the mess they make for Android users when they react to texts? 😬😇

I often thought of manually constructing reaction texts just so they could see the experience. 😆

theverge.com/2022/10/20/234…

When I bought my #MacBookPro earlier this year, I was dubious I'd see any benefit in using Magsafe. As expected, I never use it. Carrying a special cable for charging one device doesn't offer me a benefit. What about you?