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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 03/10/2026

Thanks Vizio! Not like I was in the middle of a movie or anything.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It should be illegal to have more than a billion dollars in assets and I am so fucking serious

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 29/09/2026

Saw at Walgreens that Mountain Dew was three dollars for a 20oz bottle. THREE DOLLARS. These were 75 cents in the vending machines 25 years ago. That’s literally a 4x price increase. Is there RAM in pop now?

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thunderstorm developed over the Salton Sea just about an hour ago. Cloud-based lightning can be seen as it got darker (Video: Sicco Rood).

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Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meta-m...

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Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 27/09/2026

@davidpierce.xyz We’ve never met but you must host a bonus follow up episode of Version History for the TI calculators with me as guest. I’m part of @reckless.bsky.social’s era and the programming world that you touched on literally changed my life. I want to share that side of it all.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 23/09/2026

@theverge.com @andrewrweb.bsky.social @sringsmuth.bsky.social Microsoft’s “Grand Plan” for Halo sounds like something Trump would come up with. No snark, but just change this to “We love Halo. We have all the devs. We have the best devs. The fans deserve it and we’re gonna bring it to them!”

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Mark Z Danielewski @markzdanielewski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

9.10.26 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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sringsmuth @sringsmuth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

First thing I did after upgrading to #MacOS27 #GoldenGate: Disable "Suggested Replies"

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Painting the same butterfly at age 20 and 30. Never give up on your art!

Two digital paintings of the same large yellow-and-black tiger swallowtail butterfly. The one in the upper left is labeled "2016." It has a more painterly style with some questionable proportions and anatomy. The one on the bottom right is labeled "2026" and is far more realistic, to the point it looks as though it might come to life and flit off the page at any moment. It's hard to believe I've only been a scientific illustrator for ten years, though that really was a whole lifetime ago. Thank you HRT for letting me live this long. :)

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 14/09/2026

25 years ago? That’s a lifetime. But I remember it like it was yesterday.

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Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On this date in 2001, I woke up in a 22-story hotel right between the twin towers in NY. I planned to linger till 10 a.m. But a last-minute meeting made me leave at 8:15, just 30 minutes before the first plane struck. The hotel was destroyed. I was saved. But we can never forget those who perished.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 10/09/2026

Everyone uses the iPad Mini as a point of reference when talking about the iPhone Duo. But I can't find a single video where someone has compared the two. @joannastern.bsky.social stuck a hot dog in a Duo, but didn't have an iPad Mini for comparison 🙁

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9to5Mac @9to5mac.com · 09/09/2026

Currently inside Steve Jobs Theater. Surprise and shine...and snack.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 04/09/2026

@sringsmuth.bsky.social Do you see why this will be my next lens?

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Brad Colbow @bradsartschool.com · 02/09/2026

*facepalm* You got sued into caring Zuck! Don’t go acting like you got this great idea just now.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 02/09/2026

Looks like I won't be buying a GoPro any time soon, or ever.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 01/09/2026

appleinsider.com/articles/26/... Well this is disappointing. It’d be nice to see him take a stand by not using that platform at all.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 24/08/2026

@polygon.com Trying to read an article on my phone. I get to use about 30% of my screen for the article, and the rest for ads. This sucks.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 23/08/2026

I finally got myself a pair of the Nothing Headphone (1)s last week. So far they’re fantastic. Half the price of Apple’s AirPods Max, and they have one incredible feature those don’t. An on/off switch.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 23/08/2026

@bsky.app I am disappointed. I’ve been thinking about taking the app off my phone recently because I haven’t gotten much out of it. But this? This is the kind of behavior that will make me delete my account.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 21/08/2026

BlueSky just isn’t hitting for me like I’d hoped. Maybe someday. Thinking about taking the app off my phone.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 17/08/2026

After dilly-dallying for far too long, I just subscribed to @theverge.com. I'm excited to see what a non-AI, ad-free internet is like.

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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 14/08/2026

I’m telling ya, they need to call it the iPhold.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 09/08/2026

@reckless.bsky.social @theverge.com and anyone else who might remember. It’s the end of a (very short lived) era from, what, fifteen years ago? I hope @vergecoffee lives on in some form.

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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 05/08/2026

Apple News ads have been going down the toilet for years, but it didn't used to be literal.

Screenshot from Apple News showing an ad picturing someone using a spoon to stir green gunk in a toilet.

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 05/08/2026

Got a really tiny ereader yesterday and it’s great. I would never attempt to read this particular book on it, but it makes for a good lock screen. @markzdanielewski.bsky.social

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 31/07/2026

Donald Trump wants to use your tax dollars to pay off January 6th rioters who beat cops with flag poles, and the GOP at large has nothing to say about it. They don't care, it's that simple.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 30/07/2026

As @reckless.bsky.social noted, it says something about our society that tech is willing to throw these features in their platforms to prevent AI content (some of which is fine) but need court orders before they’ll do anything about racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny or the like

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 28/07/2026

[Patient First Name] here. I’ve really missed seeing you too!

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 27/07/2026

www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o... This guy is out of his mind. Your AI can’t tell me how many Rs are in strawberry, thinks I should walk to the car wash, and can’t help me correctly install a Docker container on my NAS. He built ChatGPT so he could ask it how to become profitable. For real.

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Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/07/2026

Yes, all of this. Use your library! It's an unmitigated good in the world!

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Phil Ringsmuth @philringsmuth.com · 23/07/2026

Oh look, #AmazonMusic is down. I’ll be anxiously awaiting my discount to make up for the outage.

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