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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 09/02/2026

Glad to know I'm not alone in my rage against the enshittification of iWork.

Review says: I was formerly the Senior Director of Applications product marketing at Apple. I was there for 10 years. I can't even begin to fathom how far Apple has fallen with this absolute travesty. I need to pay to remove ads in Apple software? I need to pay for Final Cut in order to use Numbers without ads? don't get me started on the Liquid Glass stuff, but lets put that aside as something that I need to get used to. Adware in an Apple product is an absolute travesty. I have a hard time imagining that Steve would have been okay with this. What's worse is that they ignored pages of feature requests / bug fixes / updates and took valuable engineering time to put ads in the product instead of giving loyal, daily users of Keynote a feature or two that they've been asking for. This feels like the death of Apple. Something is definitely rotten in the state of Cupertino. I'm not angry, I'm just sad. I always put Apple on a pedestal, and foolishly I expected better.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 03/02/2026

Now that's what I call product strategy!

Two Keynote icons with indicators that both versions of the application are running side by side.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 12/12/2025

I hate these forms with the fire of a thousand suns

Grad application form asking me to rate a student on 10 dimensions with 7 possible values per dimension.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 03/12/2025

It’s just always there, immovably on my Home Screen in Apple TV (the app) on Apple TV (the device) and iPhone. Maybe I’ll get popups in Wallet or Health next.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 14/11/2025

Had to cut this one for time

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 01/11/2025

Go home, Siri. You’re drunk.

Siri notification saying “Call in to ‘MRI Pelvis Without Contrast’”

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 23/09/2025

Today I learned that my wife is the wonderful person she is because of Tylenol. That rules!

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 03/09/2025

When you’ve got a meeting with three guys named Matt, there’s only one thing you can call the meeting.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 01/09/2025

Politicians: they’re just like us!

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 16/08/2025

Newt cannot marry the Xenomorph but the Xenomorph can give Callista away #ResponsibleAI

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 16/08/2025

Dude riding a Xenomorph carousel is cool tho

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 16/08/2025

Nova Canvas will not allow me to make a Xenomorph care for FDR in his wheelchair, or to make a Xenomorph bowl with Nixon. But it will allow this.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 19/06/2025

Did you also catch the “Tijuana Style” Berlin Döner?

Sandwich board sign for Tijuana Style Döner

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 19/06/2025

Here I was, thinking @aeraedresearch.bsky.social had moved beyond gender binaries, but no….

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 28/05/2025

<Ralph Wiggum Voice>I’m a category theorist now</Wiggum>

Friend: Is cheesecake pie?
Ben: No. But cheesecake is toast or quiche depending on the crust Pie is quiche. (https://cuberule.com/) So cheesecake and pie can be in the same equivalence class but cheesecake is not pie. Since they aren’t always in the same equivalence class one cannot be said to be a kind of the other.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 08/05/2025

Representing the real first American Pope, Saint Lenny.

Selfie of Ben wearing a black hoodie with a picture of the Young Pope on it

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 29/04/2025

VFlex teaching mafia rise up!

Ben with a lavalier mic clipper to his n95

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 05/04/2025

Deutsche Bank says about a third of Americans have zero or *negative* non-home wealth.

Bar graph showing American family wealth over time. Right most data point (2016) is above 30%.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 04/01/2025

I’ve decided that my vice for 2025 is gonna be drinking as much of this stuff as I want

Been holding a bottle of Martinelli’s sparkling apple juice

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 25/12/2024

Die Hard/Dogma double feature is perfect. The soundtracks even flow together. #CatholicismWow

George Carlin dressed as a cardinal. Behind him, signs say “Catholicism wow”

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 07/12/2024

Watching our favorite Christmas movie

Clive Owen and Clare-Hope Ashitey surrounded by soldiers

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 02/10/2024

Today’s pedagogical innovation: Replace “subgoals” with “concepts of your plan.”

Drake meme: subgoals vs concepts of a plan

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 23/07/2024

My dog’s name is Josh. Gonna be funny if the VP has his name.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 25/05/2024

Re-watching Hunger Games and just saw the scene where Snow bombs a hospital because some people inside had associated with a rebel and well I’m glad that has nothing in common with current events.