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Joshua Topolsky

@joshuatopolsky
117 posts
2025-12-12
Serious question: did TIME (apparently that's how you write it) use AI to create the horrible uncanny valley of these people's faces on those bodies, and IF NOT, is this a subtle argument that we actually need AI to do MORE design? [image]
2025-12-12 View on X
Time

Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how people interact with the world

😂  —  Karma for rigging a war map, or making money on bets with insider knowledge.  —  An upside of Time's dumb 2025 choice, I suppose. Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : The arro...

2025-09-10
what I'm hearing is I do not need 3 lenses
2025-09-10 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple announces the iPhone Air, with eSIM-only worldwide, a 5.6mm design, an A19 Pro chip, an N1 chip for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a Center Stage front camera

a great choice. Gonna be hard to pick one over the other. [image] @ijustine : New iPhone 17 Air is soooo thin, wow.  Feels like the first MacBook Air announcement.. #AppleEvent ......

what I'm hearing is I do not need 3 lenses
2025-09-10 View on X
The Verge

Apple says the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air have Memory Integrity Enforcement, “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, like Microsoft and Google offer

Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.

2025-06-10
I am sorry apple fanboys but this is actually terrible and I think you know it [image]
2025-06-10 View on X
The Verge

Apple introduces a Liquid Glass design language across its software platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to in-app operating system interfaces

Liquid Glass is coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and more. … Apple is introducing a new Liquid Glass design across its software platforms today.

Like WHAT useful information does the blurred content behind the panels communicate? How does it make navigation clearer or simpler? This is a parlor trick that degrades usability for no clear gain. [image]
2025-06-10 View on X
The Verge

Apple introduces a Liquid Glass design language across its software platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to in-app operating system interfaces

Liquid Glass is coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and more. … Apple is introducing a new Liquid Glass design across its software platforms today.

BUT they finally gave the iPad an actual pointer and windows so I would say today is a huge success. Bravo Apple.
2025-06-10 View on X
The Verge

Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with features to “fluidly resize” app windows, move them, and open more app at once, a new Files app, a Mac-like Preview app, and more

how to download the developer beta now Kahekashan / The Hans India : Apple Introduces Fresh Design and Smarter Features with macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and More at WWDC 2025 Harsh Shi...

BUT they finally gave the iPad an actual pointer and windows so I would say today is a huge success. Bravo Apple. [video]
2025-06-10 View on X
The Verge

Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with features to “fluidly resize” app windows, move them, and open more app at once, a new Files app, a Mac-like Preview app, and more

how to download the developer beta now Kahekashan / The Hans India : Apple Introduces Fresh Design and Smarter Features with macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and More at WWDC 2025 Harsh Shi...

2025-06-06
crying rn https://sherwood.news/... [image]
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

2024-07-13
lol the EU is basically like “blue checks you can buy don't mean shit Elon” https://sherwood.news/...
2024-07-13 View on X
Financial Times

Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue

https://ec.europa.eu/... … X: Thierry Breton / @thierrybreton : Back in the day, #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔️🐦 Now with X, our preliminary view is ...

2024-06-29
Only someone utterly divorced from creation and completely insulated in a bubble of entitlement would have such a distorted view of other people's work like this
2024-06-29 View on X
Windows Central

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract”

Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.

2024-04-13
This story from @broderick and @AdamBumas about how Twitch has evolved into a Spanish-language platform is so fascinating https://www.sherwood.news/...
2024-04-13 View on X
Sherwood News

Twitch has become a major Spanish-language platform, with streamers like TheGrefg and Ibai Llanos hosting live sporting events that attract massive audiences

Spanish streamers are redefining Twitch's relationship to traditional media.  —  1h  —  One of the most interesting stories … X: @joshuatopolsky See also Mediagazer X: Joshua Topol...

2024-01-02
Weird because @gruber fails to mention that Apple initially introduced iMessage by hijacking your mobile phone number, creating the illusion that the service was an extension of standard text messaging. …
2024-01-02 View on X
Financial Times

A look at the future of Apple's $85B/year services business, as the company faces key US court cases in 2024 and prepares to allow iOS app sideloading in the EU

Landmark EU regulation and crucial US court cases due in 2024 will test the tech company  —  Apple faces a legal reckoning in 2024 …

2023-11-19
Shit show at the fuck factory https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-11-19 View on X
The Verge

Source: OpenAI's board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes

The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

2023-08-19
Had a REVEALING conversation with former @threads editor-in-chief @katienotopoulos.  Shocked and surprised by Meta's leadership after hearing her side of things. https://open.spotify.com/...
2023-08-19 View on X
The Verge

Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users' profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological Following feed

I think the reposts tab could be pretty useful. https://www.theverge.com/... Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky : Had a REVEALING conversation with former @threads editor-in-chief @...

2023-08-18
Had a REVEALING conversation with former @threads editor-in-chief @katienotopoulos.  Shocked and surprised by Meta's leadership after hearing her side of things. https://open.spotify.com/...
2023-08-18 View on X
The Verge

Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users' profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological “Following” feed

Threads is adding reposts (aka retweets) to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday.

2023-06-16
Yes to all of this. Google has allowed search to become a sprawling metropolis of absolute garbage. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-06-16 View on X
The Verge

How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other

The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

2023-06-06
this is the most dystopian device apple has ever announced
2023-06-06 View on X
The Verge

Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024

Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.

2022-12-16
Just curious @jack, does Elon still seem like the perfect guy to run Twitter?
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

2022-12-10
The actual scandal is these two creeps and who knows who else seem to have unfettered access to your Twitter account at the behest and encouragement of the company's CEO https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

The actual scandal is these two creeps and who knows who else seem to have unfettered access to your Twitter account at the behest and encouragement of the company's CEO https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”

do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/....