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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Control Resonant is no fuckin joke.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 04/09/2026

Fairphone’s goal is to provide a compelling mobile experience while also enabling the user to “fully own” their device—an offer that's compelling for a lot of people.

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Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Things are going great with Gemini, I see.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I can't think of any reason a phone game should need to send me notifications. It's insane so many games try to do that now.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/07/2026

While labeling AI content is a good policy for tech firms, it probably won’t save the rest of us who have to deal with its outputs.

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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fade to black... Workday page refreshes. How should you respond to Jim's joke? A) Take Jim aside and tell him cephalopods deserve respect. B) Contact interspecies HR to file a complaint. C) Laugh at that too-many-arms havin mf that shit was hilarious (Just took my company's annual HR training.)

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gemini in Android Auto started reading its system chain of thought today. It went on for like a minute. The sheer number of AI tokens that it took to search for a drug store is wild.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Meet the world's first trillionaire.

Elon Musk giving what is clearly a Nazi salute at the end of a shouty political speech.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries came out in 2019, and they're still updating with new content. It's gotten so, so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlj...

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MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 23/05/2026

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21/05/2026

You hear a lot of complaints around the Internet about how AI is changing Google’s search products, but Google is getting what it wants: more searches.

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Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Can't imagine anything I'd rather do less.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I know the consensus on Crimson Desert has shifted since release, but I'm about 10 hours in, and that is increasingly feeling like cope. This game is a mess in a lot of ways. Not sure I can or want to stick it out for 60 hours.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

SLS is probably doomed because it's "too expensive." But we could have at least 10 SLS launches for what they've spent on a month of war with Iran.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

$900 for the PS5 Pro is craaaaaazy. A 50% price jump from the base model! Component prices are getting bad even for companies like Sony. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150

Memory, storage shortages have made all kinds of consumer tech more expensive.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I don't necessarily hate the 24-hour cooldown. Bigger issues with dev verification are privacy and how fee collection could affect devs in certain places. Still looking into that. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

The "advanced flow" will be available before verification enforcement begins later this year.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I hope someone data-hoarded these.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

2 million players in a few weeks seems pretty good to me? But what do I know? I'm not a soulless corpo overlord grown in a vat for the express purpose of grinding creative people into a fine powder.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Five AI notifications for a single package is insane, Google.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Gemini for Home is going just great.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

NYT's track record standing up to fascism has been spotty lately, but this is an important thing to publish right now. Some people are living in an alternate reality. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The most unrealistic thing about Marvel movies isn't the superhero stuff. It's that people would be whispering "Hail Hydra" instead of shouting it while waving Hydra flags. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I started assembling this for the Ars article the other day, and now it's done. Mode65 with copper plate and base, featuring GMK Copper R2 keycaps. The accents contain 10% real copper because why not I guess.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Teaming up with Republicans to pass the TikTok ban might end up being one of the Democratic Party's biggest blunders. They just handed MAGA an amazing propaganda tool. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers

Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Remarkable last words: Audience member: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years? Kirk: Too many Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years? Kirk: Counting or not counting gang members?

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Should Google maybe just not appeal this case? May not make sense to spend the money on an appeal when the remedies are so modest.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

What... what is this signage telling me to do?

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 31/07/2025

For the first time, this feels like a foldable phone you'd want to carry around, but whether or not you can justify the $1,999 price tag is another matter entirely.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review: Quantum leap

Samsung’s new flagship foldable is a huge improvement over last year’s model.

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Condé Union @condeunion.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🧵CONDE NAST SQUID GAMES: Today Conde Nast held a company-wide meeting. Nearly a week in advance, our members submitted a list of questions about the future of the company, RTO policies, and enforcement and staffing; we received no answers.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The "Pizza Chef" in Death Stranding 2 is an Asian man who lives in Australia and dresses like Mario. Makes sense.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I got a keyboard made of forged carbon fiber, which is neat. I got a carbon fiber splinter assembling it, which is not as neat.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I just turned on a PC that's been off since February. Windows 11 has been updating and restarting for, no joke, over an hour now. It's sometimes hard to believe this is how a major operating system works in this, the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five.

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Ryan Whitwam @rwhitwam.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Andor proves that The Force is the worst part of Star Wars.

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