LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

You can't keep telling people the future is a fascist takeover and ecological collapse, and conservatives and corporations are the ones directly responsible and are blocking efforts to fix it, and not expect people to ask why we're being so goddamn nice to them in that case.

Hey #visionOS folks — did you know our first labs open *Monday* in Cupertino?

Be one of the very first humans to spend a full day with Vision Pro, test your app, and get hands on help and guidance from our engineers and designers.

In-progress projects are great! You’re also welcome to visit us in the labs even if you’ve applied for a Developer Kit. Applications for next week in Cupertino and London close TONIGHT at 11:59pm local time — don’t miss out!

Unsure whether you should apply for a #visionOS lab? Here are some good reasons to come visit us (in addition to “I would very much like to spend a full day in Vision Pro plz”):

- You’ve got an in-progress prototype or app you want to test on Vision Pro
- You’ve applied for a Developer Kit and want time to test on hardware while you wait
- You have an iOS/iPhone app and have Qs about targeting visionOS

Excited to see some of you soooooon

https://developer.apple.com/events/view/UF88MD77U3/dashboard

Please don’t “solve” your UI problems by putting TipKit views everywhere 🙏

"An acre of land, if planted with PV solar, could yield 70 times more EV miles than corn ethanol from that same acre powering a combustion engine car...Sweeter yet...agrivoltaics, where you install PV solar on your land AND plant a crop in between the solar panels....There is a symbiotic relationship: the presence of the crop cools the surroundings, boosting the PV yield, & the PV array gives partial shade which is beneficial for cooler-climate crops, & conserves water."

Go read @CelloMomOnCars

HomePod Alarms detected that my smoke alarms were going off and Siri told me in my AirPods Pro. I ran back and discovered a forgotten jar candle had gone nuts. Roaring flames, quickly extinguished. Opening the windows cleared the smoke in a few minutes.

Apple literally saved my apartment from burning down.

Why is it that when progressive policies that help the bottom 90 percent are proposed, the question always seems to be, "How will you pay for it?"

But when the top 1 percent ask for bailouts, tax cuts, and subsidies, the question always seems to be, "How much do you need?"

Yo: Our Apple Vision Pro programs are now live 🎉

Come test out your #visionOS app at one of our labs and check out Vision Pro for yourself. Or — if you have a really great idea and need more time with hardware to make it reality — apply for a developer kit!

https://developer.apple.com/visionos/work-with-apple/

Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban

The increase in deaths reverses a nearly ten-year decline.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/infant-deaths-surge-in-texas-after-abortion-ban/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

If you’re not on the beta bandwagon, go update your #Apple devices! 🍎🍏🍎🍏

Get yours while they are still hot! (also: developer labs!) #visionpro #visionos

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=beltofx4

We have a death cult in this country. It's horrifying and should be a major scandal. Every candidate for federal elected office should be asked about this constantly.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/pedestrian-deaths-road-safety-traffic-accidents.html

I'm a climate doomer, because I know that no progress on the climate can happen unless black voting rights in the US get sorted. And we aren't even paying attention to the Black voting problem, let alone close to solving it.

There is no path to making meaningful progress on climate change that doesn't go through Black people in the US getting to vote. None. The fact that we still can't accept this, is why I'm not optimistic about our chances to do anything meaningful about the climate.

The #barbie movie is everything, go see it, etc., but on reflecting today: there’s something profoundly distressing in the fact that you can make a movie explicitly criticizing the Mattel corporation, indeed corporate America writ large as a vector of patriarchal power and greed, producing and reproducing subjugation, and Mattel will fund your movie because that power is so untouchable, so entrenched, that the movie is simply going to result in more profit

@ellotheth We do it for that fleeting moment of power and euphoria when all pieces fall in place and everything works.

Being in development is being crackheads in search of our next fix.

“For the horrors of the American Negro’s life,” wrote James Baldwin in 1962, “there has been almost no language.” The history is clear. America gave Black Americans nothing. What freedom we have was earned through blood, toil, grit, perseverance, & courage. After the deadliest insurrection in American history, Black-New Yorkers rebuilt their lives, shaped their destinies & contributed to the ongoing freedom struggle..

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #NYC

Kindergarten children did a wee bit of guerilla gardening to create this beautiful #StreetArt display.

Many thanks @streetartutopia for sharing 😊

https://streetartutopia.com/2023/04/15/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/

#K12 #science #ArtShare

Hey, an instance for black queer folk that needs a bit of exposure to get the word out about it. Please boost if you have friends who've felt alienated by the nazis you tend to find on other, unmentionable servers. https://blackqueer.life

Admin: @tillshadeisgone

#BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackQueer

~one billion
~1,000,000,000

That's how many parking spaces there are in the USA. For every car? About 4 empty spaces... just sitting there, not absorbing the rain, making flooding worse, making cities hotter as they bake in the summer sun.

Our built environment and laws bend over backwards to make driving the only viable transportation option in nearly every imaginable context.

You need to pay for healthcare, but almost never parking.

(Pointing this out makes libertarian heads explode.)