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Ray O'Neill
About that threatened Apple tariff
It isn’t immediately clear if Trump’s threat to hit Apple with “a Tariff of at least 25%” if all iGadgets […]
Keeping a wary eye on some potential phone-locking fuckery from Verizon
I got the following text message yesterday: Hi, it’s Verizon Prepaid. We’re updating our Unlocking Policy effective 07/07/2025. 60 days […]
Today in “autocorrect sucks” news: Apple & Ampersands
Here’s a fun bug that I hadn’t heard of before, maybe because I’ve never owned an iGadget: if you send […]
Even Notepad is getting an intergrated slop generator
It isn’t that it’s becoming easier to get tools that let you generate terrible, worthless alleged content via AI; it’s […]
I barely even used Pocket and I’m still annoyed
I hadn’t actually signed up for Pocket; what I saw of it was via Firefox’s new-tab recommendations, and what I […]
Penny wise and pound foolish
The reported annual savings for taxpayers from the government’s stopping production of the penny: $56 million. The annual cost to […]
An update on the Bangor City Hall renovation boondoggle
In the local paper: Extensive renovations to the interior and exterior of Bangor City Hall, which aim to make the […]
Yes, Trump should have run for pope, but I have an even funnier idea
I don’t know much about the Catholic Church’s internal politics and policymaking, which means I don’t know much about their […]
Dystopia watch: get thee back to the sweatshops, America
Thus spoke Howard Lutnick: “This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest […]
Ray of Infamy 