@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@Giizis_Mkwa ("🌟Moon Bear Art🌟") wrote:
This is a reminder to especially the Wiccan community that continues to use it please stop natives have asked for years now since the sage shortage started. You have other herbs you can use there is no need for you to be using sage unless you are indigenous.
with quote tweet:
@heather28df ("cherrywaves") wrote:
PSA
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@SilvestriCodes ("Mx. Skelevestri") wrote:
Hello everyone!
A reminder that late on Friday, Netflix engaged in further workplace discrimination by firing the Black trans employee who was quietly organizing the upcoming walkout, and that you should not believe a word they are saying about why they fired this employee.
with quote tweet:
Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fires-organizer-trans-employee-walkout-dave-chappelle?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") retweeted:
@TheDailyShow ("The Daily Show") wrote:
Wanna feel the rush of a narrow majority held hostage by one sanctimonious d**khead? Play Manchin! The Board Game
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@theyetee ("The Yetee 🌈") wrote:
NEW! Say hello to Goodbye Volcano High stickers, created alongside @KOOPMode! This special Halloween Stickersheet is the second best part of the season (right behind pumpkin spice) and features the coolest dinos you know sporting their spookiest styles! https://zcu.io/eiT3
@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") retweeted:
@rad_milk ("everett byram") wrote:
check your kids halloween candy. my cousin found the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand in sarajevo by serbian nationalist gavrilo princip inside a snickers bar
@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") wrote:
Doug and I are giving a talk tomorrow! Please come join us. It's free, and it should be fun and educational. Who knows, I may even throw in a puzzler, Doug willing.
with quote tweet:
@rebase_conf ("Rebase Conf") replied to a tweet by @rebase_conf:
@joshbloch with talk about the history of API design at 1:50 PM CT, followed by a discussion with @douglea. »
After almost three years as the top-selling console in the U.S., the Nintendo Switch has been ousted by Sony’s PlayStation 5. According to Mat Piscatella, an NPD analyst, the PS5 was the best-selling gaming hardware platform in both units sold and overall dollars earned in September 2021.
@Extrawurst ("Stephan Dilly") retweeted:
@BlockchainWorks ("Blockchain Works") wrote:
Remote Technical Engineering Manager
with competitive compensation
Overview Core engineering at Heliax focuses on building, extending, and maintaining decentralized, permissionless, and censorship-resistant pr...
#remotework #remotejobs #rust #rustlang
I wonder if I can make it always open new windows instead of its own tabs.
Tabbing is a window manager job.
@rob_hawkins ("Bat Vulture") retweeted:
@ChuckWendig ("Chuck Wendig") wrote:
Inside you are two wolves. One has Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the other has Adult ADHD. The one who wins is oh wait I’m just receiving word that they’re teaming up. They’re a team now. So that’s happening.
One of Lucy’s solar panels fully deployed before its launch | Image: Lockheed Martin
A robotic spacecraft that NASA just launched to explore clusters of asteroids around Jupiter may be in some slight trouble on its journey through space. The space probe, named Lucy, is having issues with one of its two main solar panels, which are critical for gathering rays from the Sun and generating power for the spacecraft on its 12-year trip through the Solar System.
NASA launched Lucy early in the morning on Saturday, October 16th, on top of an Atlas V rocket from Florida. The launch was deemed a success, putting Lucy on its trajectory to reach Jupiter’s asteroids, named the Trojans, by 2027.
“In the current spacecraft attitude, Lucy can continue to operate.”
But on Sunday, NASA announced that one of Lucy’s 24-foot-wide solar...
Pixel 6 color choices | Image: Google
Google’s upcoming phones have made early appearances in leaks over, and over, and over, and over, and over again, so it’s really no surprise that someone seems to have obtained a retail-boxed Pixel 6 unit ahead of the fall launch event tomorrow.
In a video posted initially to TikTok, then deleted but still available on Twitter, @CristianDimboiu takes a literal approach to unboxing by removing the “Sorta Seafoam” green device from its carrier without going any further. You won’t see the screen turn on or see the screen at all.
Google Pixel 6 - World First Unboxing #Pixel6#GooglePixel6#Pixel6Launchpic.twitter.com/0z6wttnVp7
— Chris DB (@CristianDimboiu) October 18, 2021
Fortunately, Google apparently ships its new phone upside down...
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@migueldeicaza ("Miguel “mask and vax” de Icaza") wrote:
Watch Colin Powell lying uninterrupted for a whole hour at the UN to sell a war that lasted eight years and killed half a million people: https://youtu.be/1Z3f_p_7OeE - took months to debunk the lies, but it was too late: The people were dead, the war contractors were cashing in.
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") retweeted:
@TrixieCosmetics ("Trixie Cosmetics") wrote:
us getting ready for yet another collection reveal...
Google looks nice in netsmurf.
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@benjanun_s ("Benjanun Sriduangkaew") wrote:
Reminder that the finale to my epic fantasy trilogy, is up for preorder! Come for
- ruthless lesbians in an arms race to see who's the biggest monster
- swords, guns, and heartbreak
- selling your soul for a chance at pyrrhic victory
- F/NB couple
🔗https://www.amazon.com/Shattersteel-Her-Pitiless-Command-Book-ebook/dp/B09HW6ZK7L
@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") wrote:
"Democrats won’t be rallying voters with claims they can flip control of the Texas Legislature in the general election a year from now.
The redistricting maps nearing approval in the current special legislative session make that a near impossibility."
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/18/texas-redistricting-democrats-2022/
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Third-party health apps that pull patient data from electronic health record systems are vulnerable to hacks, according to a new report. The electronic health records themselves, which are housed at health centers and subject to the federal privacy law HIPAA, are well protected. But as soon as a patient gives permission for their data to leave the health record and head toward a third-party app — like programs that track people’s medications, for example — it’s easy for hackers to access.
Hospitals and health care systems are a major target for hackers, and attacks have only escalated over the past few years. Patient health data is some of the most valuable information to hackers: each record can be worth hundreds of dollars on the...
Apple’s event invitation
Apple says something is getting “unleashed.”
Have you ever wanted to see a young, blonde twink have a no-good, very bad day? Then boy do I have the game and video for you, as someone has managed to get Link to fight a Hynox, Lynel, and multiple Guardians, at the same time in Breath of the Wild. This, to me, sounds like a terribly stressful day given the fact…
no matter what you achieve in life you’ll always want more so just make sure you have fun while chasing that dream
@zilmer ("Priidu Zilmer") retweeted:
@rsms ("Rasmus Andersson") replied to a tweet by @rsms:
Boots just fine, but turns out I reinstalled the OS at some point (around 2007) to use it as a test machine at Spotify and for gaming, so it has almost no software. But it surprisingly feel almost as fast as my current-day MacBook Pro.
@LilNasX ("MONTERO 🦋") retweeted:
@jackharlow ("Jack Harlow") wrote:
Bitch is that me
with quote tweet:
@cavs ("Cleveland Cavaliers") wrote:
Ended preseason with a W!
#CavsPacers📊: https://on.nba.com/3DIIwzu
📸: https://on.nba.com/3p8slaO
Marvel Entertainment
Disney has just announced delays for its 2022 Marvel films, along with the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie, all of which have been pushed back to later in the year or moved to 2023.
The Marvel movie shifts are the usual chain reaction delay: to push back one movie means pushing back all of them, so there’s a domino effect in pushing everything back a bit:
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
The ultra-rich have gamed out how to have low incomes and big wealth. So just taxing their income won’t get the job done. We need a #WealthTax, or billionaires will keep laughing in the faces of hardworking Americans who actually pay what they owe.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-billionaires-dont-pay-taxes
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates | Photo by Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Over 10 years before his departure from Microsoft’s board amid an investigation over an affair with an employee, former CEO Bill Gates was warned by two company executives about inappropriate emails between him and another woman, The Wall Street Journal reported.
While he was still an employee at Microsoft and serving as chairman of the board, Gates and a female employee exchanged “flirtatious” emails and propositioned the employee, the Journal reported. He was married at the time. When confronted by two company executives, Gates reportedly didn’t deny the exchanges and said he would stop the interaction. The executives informed some members of Microsoft’s board, but the board ultimately decided that since there was no physical...
@kumailn ("Kumail Nanjiani") wrote:
It’s Eternals premiere day. No idea how I’m going to get through today. How do people pass time? Backgammon? My brain is full of a thousand fans all going at different speeds and directions.
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@decayedarts ("shroomthedecayedfox") wrote:
To the end of a dream . . .
#edeleth #FE3H
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@outcontextyuri ("out of context GL") wrote:
Not So Shoujo Love Story
Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, said it will test its vehicles on the hilly, rain-drenched streets of Seattle. The company also plans on opening an office there in 2022.
Seattle will be the third city to host Zoox’s autonomous vehicles, after San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company said it will deploy a small number of vehicles to “get the lay of the land” before deciding how to expand its operations there.
“We’re excited to be testing in Seattle. The data we’re gathering will be invaluable for the continued development of our AI stack,” said Jesse Levinson, CTO and co-founder of Zoox, in a statement.
“The data we’re gathering will be invaluable for the continued development of our AI stack”
Zoox will use Toyota...
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:
I give this one 30 minutes to fully fund tbh
with quote tweet:
@ironcircuscomix ("Iron Circus Comics") wrote:
IT'S HERE.
From @kendrawcandraw and Iron Circus Comics:
⚔️REAL HERO SHIT.⚔️
Back in the FIRST HOUR to get FREE domestic and HALF-PRICE international shipping!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/real-hero-shit-by-kendra-wells?ref=ci6gkh
I'm not supposed to be faster than a computer at like manipulating a GUI, but on my work laptop with Windows, I am.
If I start a program and start typing, I'm just typing into the void.
Many many operations are like that, having to wait for a while before continuing.
So trying to get it to work well with keyboard-only is kind of futile, since I can't keyboard away at my own pace like I'm used to.
I'm not even a fast keyboardist!
Twitch’s big leak this month included more than just source code and payday info. Details emerged about a “do not ban” list, which sure sounds like the sort of nefarious document that allows certain people to play the same game by different rules. But a new Washington Post report indicates that the list is not quite…
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:
Once again it's time I go to the property tax grocery store and push my cart around....
Hopefully I don't get tricked into any impulse purchases and pay for my neighbors!
with quote tweet:
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:
I love when property tax payment websites use the shopping cart metaphor.
Let's see, I need milk, coffee, and 2020 2nd Half Property Tax... which aisle is that again? Oh, there it is. Proceed to checkout.
@timminchin ("Tim Minchin") retweeted:
@BBCArtsPR ("BBC Arts Publicity Team") wrote:
The final episode of #InsideCulture is on Friday.
@wmarybeard is looking into the creative connection between Britain and Australia with some very special guests: Cate Blanchett, @timminchin, @natimbruglia and Julia Gillard and Stan Grant.
@BBCTwo, Friday 22 October, 7.30pm
Celebrating last week’s launch of Pokémon 25: The Album, The Pokémon Company has mocked up a trio of trading cards featuring anime versions of artists Katy Perry, J Balvin, and Post Malone with various pocket monster partners. None of them are real, physical cards, but dammit, they should be.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@RepBarragan ("Nanette D. Barragán") wrote:
Will we act in a way that recognizes the true scale of the #ClimateCrisis? Will we jumpstart the transition off fossil fuels with the urgency it requires?
Or, like we did 11 years ago, will we give in to dishonest efforts by the fossil fuel lobby?
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@minsmins33 ("mins") wrote:
Thanks for reference @AdorkaStock :)
#CLIPSTUDIO #manga #illust #anime #日々描く #ポーズ練習 #よく見て考えて描く #vampire
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@AdorkaStock ("AdorkaStock | Pose Reference") wrote:
CUTE 😍 #AdorkaStockPoses
@bascule ("Spooky RFC5280 Section 4.1.2.7 (SPKI) 🎃👻🦀🌹") wrote:
TIL: Manchin made a campaign ad indistinguishable from parody in which he literally shoots down a cap and trade bill.
He should try to get a guest spot as a Captain Planet villain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJORBRpOPM
Should have taken more clothes for the bike commute.
Elden Ring, the newest FromSoftware title created in collaboration with Game of Thrones torture artist / author George R. R. Martin, has been delayed. Bandai Namco announced that the game’s January 22nd release date would be moved back a month explaining that “the depth and strategic freedom of the game exceeded initial expectations.”
Important message:
ELDEN RING will release on Feb 25, 2022, as the depth & strategic freedom of the game exceeded initial expectations. Thank you for your trust & patience. We look forward to seeing you experience the game in the Closed Network Test in Nov.
The #ELDENRING Team
— ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING) October 18, 2021
To take some of the sting out of the delay, Bandai Namco also announced players can...
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
clacke@libranet.de ("Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰") wrote:
> They knew they had two very similar labour markets, but they also realised they had a control group (Pennsylvania) where nothing was going to change, and a treatment group (New Jersey) where nothing was going to change except for one variable: the increase in the minimum wage.
> So, they surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the rise in the minimum wage.
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13…
> However, their findings weren't welcomed by the establishment.
[ . . . ]
> American economist James Buchanan, a Nobel Laureate himself (in 1986), was scathing of the suggestion that a core "law" of economics might not be universal after all.
[ . . . ]
> "Just as no physicist would claim that 'water runs uphill,' no self-respecting economist would claim that increases in the minimum wage increase employment."
@DOStatus ("DigitalOcean Status") replied to a tweet by @DOStatus:
Monitoring: Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issues impacting Spaces availability for a subset of users in our NYC3 region and is monitoring the situation closely. Thank you for your patience, and we will post an upd… https://stspg.io/spyvrlbwydtf?u=spnmx7pchp7p
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Toyota, the largest automaker in the world, announced that it will spend $3.4 billion on “automative batteries” in the US through 2030 — a little more than two months after it was revealed that the company was quietly lobbying elected officials in Washington, DC to slow the transition to electric vehicles.
As part of the deal, Toyota will build a new $1.29 billion factory in the US to make batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles, which the company says will generate 1,750 new jobs. The automaker is the latest to announce plans to shore up battery manufacturing in the US, which has been a key goal of the Biden administration’s effort to speed up the switch to EVs.
Of course, Toyota wasn’t always so bullish about electric vehicles
Of...
Just in time for the spooky season, TiMi Studio Group will kick off a Pokémon Unite Halloween event on October 20 that’s dedicated to all things frightening. It’s a pretty massive patch, too, packing in a brand-new playable monster, extra gear, and more.
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@batshaped ("batty is already a halloween name") wrote:
the continued adventures of an internet user who was frozen in 2004 and defrosted in 2021:
Vocabulary Lesson
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@GwionTaliesin ("Taliesin 🕷🕸🎃") wrote:
Love like the world is ending.
Goodbye Volcano High's Trisha and Fang are starring in my #inktober day 17: COLLIDE.
#inktober2021
@KOOPMode
♥
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@_beautynative ("JUSTICE4STEVENTAYLOR") wrote:
Morning y’all. I’m opening an salon, in Oakland, CA. Indigenous owned and open to all textures & all hair colors. I could use some community support, but also understand the challenges we’re facing. Please share & thank you for always being supportive 🤍
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@slimefiend ("🖲️ tom (beast crime era) 🖲️ «💉2/2»") wrote:
with quote tweet:
@TheRegister ("The Register") wrote:
Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU https://reg.cx/41Dm
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@EricBoehlert ("Eric Boehlert") wrote:
“In one sense, the Manchin power play is the oldest story in American politics — about the outsized power of money, greed and cynical ambition to kill progress”
with quote tweet:
@Will_Bunch ("Will Bunch") wrote:
We all wanted normalcy when Biden became POTUS - predictably that's not what's happening. The GOP is quickly sliding into fascism, and Dem corruption is hindering the fight
People need to take back America, in the ballot box and the streets. My new column https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/january-6-blood-flag-republican-threat-democracy-20211017.html
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:
Is there a "War criminals outlasted by Kissinger" Twitter account yet?
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@juliaioffe ("Julia Ioffe") wrote:
"Mr. Manchin has received more campaign donations from the oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator."
February 2022 was already packed full of big game releases. Now FromSoftware has added another to the list, delaying Elden Ring a month from its original January 21, 2022 release date. In the meantime, the game will get a player demo next month as grainy in-development footage continues to leak online.
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:
@ninasabak ("halloweena sabak") wrote:
in 2021, one must ask: is this seasonal affective disorder, depression, a realistic response to the state of the world, or simply the way I feel from now on?
@bylgja_babylons ("Bylgjan🐝") retweeted:
@BarrelComedy ("Monkey Barrel Comedy") wrote:
🌟 THE WEEK AHEAD 🌟
http://www.monkeybarrelcomedy.com@JosieLong
@liamwithnail
@RickMolland
@Comedyfox
@Sleepy_Comedian
@bylgja_babylons
@AmyFMatthews
@marknelsoncomic
@sarahecallaghan
Chris Iskander
@jayjaylaffs
@StuartJayMurphy
@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@SICKOFWOLVES ("NOT A WOLF") wrote:
A DECK IS A POWERPOINT
DELIVERABLES ARE JUST STUFF
YOU ARE IN A PRISON OF THE MIND AND THE ONLY WAY OUT IS TO MICROWAVE AS MUCH FISH AS YOU CAN
@jasonfowler ("jason fowler") retweeted:
@MayorAdler ("Mayor Adler | Get vaccinated!") wrote:
“We strongly urge voters to reject Prop A in the Nov. 2 election.” -- @Statesman
“We need police, but what we need more is investment in social programs that can uplift community members.” -- @AustinChronicle
Sony has sold more than 10 million PS5s so far. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Sony’s PS5 has become the first console to outsell the Nintendo Switch in the US in nearly three years. The PS5 outsold the Switch in September in the US, according to data from retail analytics firm The NPD Group. Nintendo’s Switch had been the bestselling console in the US for 33 months in a row, even outselling both the PS5 and Xbox Series X during their launch periods.
That extraordinary run has come to an end. “PlayStation 5 was the best-selling hardware platform of September in both units and dollars,” explains NPD’s Mat Piscatella. “PlayStation 5 is the best-selling hardware platform of 2021 year-to-date in dollars, while Nintendo Switch leads in units.” The NPD Group only tracks sales in the US, so it leaves out big markets like...
Long before the introduction of the Apple Store, if you wanted to get your Mac fixed, you went to an independent repair shop like TekServe.
It was a different time — the ’90s, for one. But it was also a world where Apple wasn’t yet a commercial and cultural behemoth. Apple was a computer company that made incredibly specific products for a very specific kind of nerd — like the LaserWriter II, a much-loved, underappreciated printer that took us out of the dot-matrix era and into the next one.
Tamara Shopsin’s debut novel LaserWriter II is not about a printer but about the people who can fix it. They’re the squirrely bunch of enthusiasts who work at New York City’s TekServe. (Idiosyncratic seems like an understatement?) But as the book’s...
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") retweeted:
@abgutman ("Abraham Gutman 🔥 אברהם גוטמן") replied to a tweet by @abgutman:
Highly recommend Reign of Terror by @attackerman for thoughtful treatment of Powell.
Image: Apple
The event kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT today
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") retweeted:
BREAKING: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died aged 84 from Covid-19 complications, his family says. https://on.msnbc.com/3n1BUpb
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Wonderful! Congratulations, Bruce!
with quote tweet:
@AAEC_Cartoonist ("AAEC") wrote:
Congrats to Bruce MacKinnon @CH_Cartoon for winning the NCS Divisional Award in Editorial Cartooning! Full results here: http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/10/16/reuben-weekend-ncs-divisional-award-winners-3/
Now it told me it installed some software I never asked for? Mediamotortillägg för Foton. Okay.
@bascule ("Spooky RFC5280 Section 4.1.2.7 (SPKI) 🎃👻🦀🌹") wrote:
🧐
with quote tweet:
@whale_alert ("Whale Alert") wrote:
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 6,319,003,848 #USDT (6,319,003,848 USD) transferred from #Binance to unknown wallet
Is it safe to dual-boot alongside windows 10? I have some vague recollection of horror stories.
@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:
@kylegriffin1 ("Kyle Griffin") wrote:
Secretary Buttigieg to NBC: "When somebody welcomes a new child into their family and goes on leave to take care of that child, that's not a vacation. It's work. It's joyful, wonderful, fulfilling work, but it is work. And it's time that our nation … recognize that."
*Does not touch work laptop but it's on*
Work laptop: faan... faaAAANN.. FAAAAAANNNNN 🌬️
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
Our education system pushes young people into debt unless they come from a family with money. That is not how we build a future. We need to make community colleges, technical schools, & public universities tuition-free—and President Biden must use his power to #CancelStudentDebt.
@DOStatus ("DigitalOcean Status") wrote:
Investigating: Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue impacting Spaces API availability in our NYC3 region. During this time, a subset of users may experience slowness or timeouts when trying to access or manage thei… https://stspg.io/spyvrlbwydtf?u=v3r2kndy4f5d
Reblogged by Lyrilith@mastodon.art:
theNeo42 ("Sascha Kersken") wrote:
RT @theNeo42 Etwas albern gewählte Überschrift für ein ernstes Thema: Da fast alle Crashtest-Dummies typischen Männerkörpern nachempfunden sind, ist das Unfallrisiko für Frauen wesentlich höher. Versteht der CSU-Hetzer aber nicht, weil er beim G-Wort direkt Rot sieht.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A boring story with a happy conclusion that fails to deliver any drama or catastrophe.
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
The WH-1000XM4 over-ear headphones that Sony released in August 2020 have seen a couple of price drops, but none as big as today’s $102 discount at Amazon. Normally $350, you can snag a set of these noise-canceling wireless headphones in the black, blue, or silver colorways for just $248. The deal gets sweeter if you have an Amazon credit card, as you’ll get 10 percent back on this purchase through December 20th. Whether this deal actually lasts that long remains to be seen, but this is a solid indicator that we may, at least, see the price fall again during the holiday shopping season.
The XM4 was built on the strengths of Sony’s prior model, offering plenty of comfort with a swiveling ear cup design, excellent sound quality, and...
@33mhz ("EVGA Gabor") retweeted:
@disco_socialist ("𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢 🏳️🌈") wrote:
the bipartisan make out session over colin powell's death today is gonna be like:
@schneierblog ("Schneier Blog") wrote:
The Missouri Governor Doesn’t Understand Responsible Disclosure https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-missouri-governor-doesnt-understand-responsible-disclosure.html
@telegram ("Telegram Messenger") wrote:
Public figures and organizations can verify their channel, group or bot so that users can be sure it is official. These chats appear with blue badges both in the chat list and on their profiles – like Telegram service messages or http://t.me/Durov. #TelegramTips
Samus Aran.
Image: Google
We’ve seen the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. Google’s decision to announce and thoroughly tease its new high-end flagship was revealing and confusing but, given all the leaks that followed, ultimately not that consequential.
The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro feature an all-new, in some cases, quite colorful design, with an in-display fingerprint sensor, Google’s new Tensor SoC, and the Titan M2 security chip. The standard Pixel 6 has a 90Hz 6.4-inch screen, while the Pro gets a 120Hz 6.7-inch, but the big difference might end up being the cameras. Both devices have new wide and ultrawide cameras, but the Pro comes with an additional 4x optical zoom periscope lens.
But now that company is planning on launching its new phones on October 19th, you might be...
Hiroshi Ono, better known as “Mr. Dotman,” passed away on October 16. The news was announced by his official Twitter account. According to Automaton, Ono had been hospitalized for autoimmune hepatitis. He was 64 years old.
@fakedansavage ("Dan Savage") wrote:
Not the obituary I wanted read today.
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:
Whatever else Colin Powell achieved in life, and it was a lot, he was the only man who could have stopped the Iraq War and instead he chose to swallow his doubts about the disaster he knew it would be and sell the invasion.
Legendary video game designer Hideo Kojima has collaborated with French eyewear specialist Jean-François Rey to produce a limited-edition quartet of shades, specs, and a 3D-printed mask. The capsule collection is available to preorder now for unknown prices, with delivery slated for March 2022.
The designs were apparently inspired by the look and feel of Kojima’s Death Stranding(not the first time that particular game has led to high-fashion collaborations), but I feel they would fit happily into a number of Kojima’s near-contemporary or futuristic game worlds. Perhaps they’d even adorn the face of one the many wonderfully-named Metal Gear Solid characters. May we suggest: Cool Glassesman. (It’s no worse than Hot Coldman.)
The...
It’s been hard to be an Apple power user for the last half-decade. The glory days of the original Retina MacBook Pro have long since vanished into the sunset, and recent years have seen computers with too many compromises and too few ports.
And while Apple’s first wave of M1-powered computers have been excellent, they’ve all been — relatively — low-powered. The MacBook Air, the M1 MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and iMac are the cheapest computers Apple makes, meant more for checking email, writing essays, and the occasional light photo editing than they are for cranking out 4K video or Photoshop projects hundreds of layers deep.
That may be about to change with the presumed announcement of new, high-end MacBook Pro models, computers that are...
Whoa boy
Sony
Sony’s second colorway for the Pulse 3D headset for PS5 and PS4, clad in midnight black instead of white, is coming out this week. It’s the same $99.99 price as before, and nothing is different about it that I’ve noticed, aside from the matte black headband. If you’re one for embracing dark mode in both your apps and devices, you probably know if you want this already.
The Pulse 3D headset was made to be a technical showcase for Sony’s Tempest 3D audio engine built into the PS5 — and it is. At its cost, this model supplies better-than-average sound quality and good positional audio. Games made by PlayStation Studios, like Returnal, Demon’s Souls, Astro’s Playroom, and others, seem to make the most of the 3D audio tech, so try those out...
Apple
Apple is hosting its next big hardware event at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. The event is titled “Unleashed,” and while we’re not totally sure what Apple will be unleashing, the dotted-font design on the invitation could be a hint at the higher-res miniLED displays expected for new MacBook Pros. These new, more powerful MacBook Pros will probably come in 14- and 16-inch screen sizes, and, may have SD readers and HDMI and MagSafe ports.
And possibly (finally) Apple may release new AirPods as well. It also seems likely we’ll get a release date for macOS Monterey, which was announced at the same time as iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, but remains in beta. The rumor mill also has been predicting the end of the Touch Bar.
How much do you still like Harry Potter? Enough to put up with a device that our own Dan Siefert called “basic and boring” and which Gizmodo’s Victoria Song called “the worst smartwatch I’ve ever used”? Well boy do I have a limited edition tie-in for you.
The OnePlus Watch Harry Potter Limited Edition is a new version of the company’s disappointing debut smartwatch themed around the boy wizard. It’s currently listed for ₹16,999 (around $225), and will be available exclusively in India where it releases on October 21st. That’s a small premium over the ₹14,999 (around $200) the regular version of the watch retails for in the country.
Image: OnePlus
The watch includes custom faces and a Harry Potter-themed design.
...
Last month, hundreds of fans gathered in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro to say goodbye to an iconic arcade. After 28 years, Sega Ikekuburo Gigo called it a day. But this month, a new Sega arcade will open right across the way.
@33mhz ("EVGA Gabor") retweeted:
@inform_dreams ("inform dreams 📚") wrote:
Definition: a thing is vulnerable if it is flammable and it is whole.
Ikea’s Vappeby is one of the first Bluetooth speakers with a dedicated Spotify Tap button. | Image: FCC
Ikea’s Vappeby Bluetooth speaker just leaked courtesy of an FCC filing. And because it’s Ikea, this mushroom-shaped speaker with an IP65 rating — which means it’ll resist dust, rain, and low pressure jets of water — also features an integrated 20 lumen (2700K) bulb to pull double-duty as a portable lamp. But that’s not the only surprise.
The Vappeby speaker also has a Spotify Tap button, in what would appear to be a first for Bluetooth speakers. Spotify Tap lets you resume your music from wherever you last stopped, or tap the button again to get a different recommendation tailored for you. Spotify Tap is already available on a range of Bluetooth headphones from Samsung, Microsoft, Bose, Jabra, and others.
Image: FCC ...
@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") retweeted:
@adikrunch ("adi breaks the internet") wrote:
mario galaxy games will have the most beautiful transcendent piece of music you've ever heard in your life and it'll be called Bouncy Bastard Galaxy
After years of struggling in Japan, the Xbox Series X/S is showing more than signs of life in Japan. In comparison to previous efforts, it’s actually doing well.
Famitsu reports that as of October 10, Microsoft has sold 64,284 Xbox Series X consoles and another 38,307 Xbox Series S consoles. That’s a total of 102,591…
@33mhz ("EVGA Gabor") retweeted:
@mashapotatohead ("Másha Potato/es and Molasses") wrote: