LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

@twostraws Well don’t forget the biggest feature... Debugging now actually works on the Apple Watch 🤯

Combine that with the new design language and SwiftUI being introduced and I feel like we might see a resurgence of Apple Watch apps.

I upgraded to watchOS 10, and it’s so interesting – like someone joined the team and said, “why do we do *that*?” 100 times.

- Was side button multitasking useful? Not really.
- Was the zooming grid an effective way to find apps? Nope.
- Did we need the clock in the app list? Nuh-uh.

Controversially, I’m also glad “swipe to change watch face” is gone, because I never did it on purpose 🙈

It takes a lot of time, energy, and bravery to execute this kind of root to branch rethink – well done! 🙌

The child tax credit cut child poverty in half in the US. As soon as it expired, child poverty went right back where it was. Poverty is a choice — a policy choice. We could end most poverty today by just giving people money — that's exactly what the child tax credit did.

Not all poverty can be directly solved with cash payments, but most poverty can. Far and away the number one cause of poverty is not having enough money. And when someone has other problems too, money makes those other challenges easier to face.

For decades — in fact most of a century since the early forays into a welfare state — our society has had the means to almost completely abolish poverty and deprivation. We just… keep deciding not to. The example of the child tax credit shows just how easily and quickly cash payments can end poverty. That choice continues to be available, and the implementation is so straightforward.

The number one cause of poverty is not having enough money. When we give people money, they stop being poor. We have the money, and we have the means to give it out.

Apple Vision Pro labs are great! Go do one!

Because… remember those iPhone apps where the developers had only ever used the Simulator with a mouse to drive their UI, and didn’t have a clue how a good mobile app should *feel*?

They're giving you a place to go learn how Vision Pro feels. All day. For free. And there's snacks. If you have any excuse at all to apply, then apply.

One thing that constantly surprises me is how many people believe that maximizing shareholder value is some sort of legal or moral obligation, not an ideological convenience made up out of whole cloth by an economist in the 70s. There’s a reason Jack Welch called it “the dumbest idea in the world.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/04/25/how-shareholders-jumped-to-first-in-line-for-profits-rerun/

"But Bitcoin is a great way to monetize excess renewables"

No, this was never true. If you make a capital investment in a mining rig, then you want that rig making you money 24hrs, not just when the rest of the grid is not consuming renewables.

You become a baseload leech.

Bitcoin must die.

https://social.platypush.tech/@blacklight/111028903112151981

Okay trying something!

NERDY TECH BLACK PEOPLE SAY HI SO I CAN FOLLOW YOU!

Maybe it's that easy (or maybe I followed them all and this thing just doesn't feel like home for folks like me) 🥺

San Jose had a Viva Calle event today, partly running through downtown. I saw quite a few people out on the streets on bikes, plus people on skates, scooters, and on foot. More of this please.