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Jun 16
This makes a lot of sense given our other national pastime is giving money to Rogers
Jun 16
CBC will no longer show NHL games as sublicense with rights-holder Rogers Sportsnet ends cbc.ca/9.7236977
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Jun 14
One MP says of the potential ban on social media for under 18s past 8.30pm:
"Are we giving votes to 16 year olds but banning them from watching the election results on YouTube?"
Jun 14
NEW - Keir Starmer will ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus."
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Jun 14
The future will be built by OpenTTD players
Notice how silly things like geography and geology doesn't apply to the Chinese
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Jun 14
So 16/17 year olds are responsible enough to vote, but the government thinks they can’t handle social media?
Jun 14
NEW: Starmer will announce an ‘Australia plus’ teen social media ban on breakfast TV tomorrow
- Expected to include the same 10 apps as Aus: TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram among them
- ‘Romantic’ chatbots banned
- 16 17 yr olds will have a curfew
thetimes.com/article/631af41…
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Jun 13
Starbucks seems to have reinvented Robinson's squash from first principles
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Jun 12
USA has Claude
USA has ChatGPT
USA has Gemini
USA has Grok
China has Qwen
China has DeepSeek
China has Kimi
China has MiniMax
Europe has?
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Jun 13
.@LNER should have a coach just for people who listen to things without headphones so the rest of us don’t have to listen to whatever podcast/erotic audiobook/TikTok is blasting through the coach
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Jun 12
My browser shows "X. It's what's ha..." on the shortcut and my brain keeps reading it as "X. It's what's for dinner."
Honestly think my slogan is better cc @nikitabier @elonmusk
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Jun 11
How committed are you to the color scheme and the grid layout
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Jun 9
1. Not the kind of setting that makes sense as a personalization option.
Jun 8
Forcing users to choose how legible they want UI controls to be is wild. Apple's designers should obsess over where this setting belongs and make it the default. macOS/iOS have always been opinionated about these kinds of things.
An abstract UI legibility slider is not the way.
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Jun 8
IPOs being advertised in grocery apps
1929 on steroids
I’m a little stressed about the SpaceX IPO - Erewhon is now advertising it in the members app
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May God release me from AI images of Nigel Farage on Question Time
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Jun 9
Nature is healing
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Jun 8
Did not expect ULCCs to start spending money on this!
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Jun 7
This thing is GORGEOUS
How it started vs how it’s going | #XBOXShowcase
ALT Photo of the OG Xbox in translucent green
ALT Photo of the XBOX Series X25 Limited Edition console in translucent green
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