Top Stories: iOS 19 Compatibility, Top 5 Apple Products for 2025, and More
It’s shaping up to be a busy 2025 for Apple, with a number of rumors and articles this week highlighting some of what we can expect.

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While the unveiling of iOS 19 is still over five months away, we’re already hearing about which devices are likely to support it, while in the much nearer term Apple is currently preparing an iOS 18.2.1 bug fix u … ⌘ Read more

HUMANITY’S PRECOGNITION: Climate Change and the Decline of Democracy
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore

Stephan: I am publishing only one story in today’s SR edition. It is a research paper I have just published in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. I have decided to do this because I think this paper explains the existential trend that is shaping the behavior and attitudes of humanity.

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(#2zve52q) @sorenpeter No I agree. I think if the feed doesn’t hint at a nick, just default to displaying the bare domain. These sorts of things …
@sorenpeter @darch.dk No I agree. I think if the feed doesn’t hint at a nick, just default to displaying the bare domain. These sorts of things btw need to go into a Client recommendations / guidelines. If someone wants to start drafting up such I doc I will fully support this and help shape it 👌 ⌘ Read more

‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
Laura Paddison,    -  CNN

Stephan: Here is a first report on a new fusion technology that may become a very significant power technology to help us leave the carbon era.

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Giant Underground ‘Batteries’ Are Shaping the Future of Renewable Energy Storage
,    -  Gizmodo

Stephan: This is an important development in the transition out of the carbon era, how to store excess electric power until it is needed. Here is some good news that also explains the problem which few Americans, including journalists and politicians seem to understand.

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[WTS] [US] [$75+] iPhone 8, 64GB

Former corporate phone. Verizon network. Pretty good shape. Small scratch on screen, but it’s nearly invisible when in use.

Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/NQxy/

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Donald Trump’s Second Administration Will Be As Women-Hating as Ever
Rebecca Gordon,  Lecturer Department of Philosophy - University of San Francisco  -  The Nation

_Stephan: As I study the trends shaping the United States, it has become clear to me that one of the most central trends is the MAGAt attempt to reimpose on American society a kind of late 19th century genderism, mostly by defining what is acceptable behavior for women. Women are supposed to be … ⌘ Read more

Gen Z spends record six hours a day online
Matthew Field,  Senior Technology Reporter  -  The Telegraph

_Stephan: This is why the weaponization of lies has become such a powerful factor in the shaping of culture in the developed democracies, particularly in the United States. As local media dies, and major corporate media is taken over by billionaires who also own the major social media platforms the survival of democracy becomes ever more problematic, and the power of the oligarch … ⌘ Read more

Here is Apple’s Annual Holiday Season Ad
Apple today shared its annual holiday season ad. The video is titled “Heartstrings” and highlights the new hearing aid feature on AirPods Pro 2.

“For so many of us, sound and how we hear shape how we connect to the world around us,” said Apple, in the video description. “Yet, people with hearing loss wait an average of 10 years before getting their hearing tested and fitted for heari … ⌘ Read more

The Silence of the Wives
TALIA LAVIN,  Staff Writer  -  The Nation

Stephan: The wife of a non-evangelical Protestant minister who reads SR sent me this saying, “You say you ‘cover trends that are shaping the future.’ Well, here is a trend you ought to be covering. It has affected my husband’s congregation, and it is affecting all of Protestantism.” I read the article and understood why she had sent it. I suggest you read it as well.

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iPhone Base Models Remain Best-Sellers Despite Pro Max Appeal
Apple’s base model iPhones have collectively accounted for 42% of its smartphone sales this year, but iPhone Pro Max devices stand as the best-selling individual model, according to new data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP).

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Software is a team sport: Building the future of software development together
Microsoft and GitHub are committed to empowering developers around the world to innovate, collaborate, and create solutions that’ll shape the next generation of technology.

The post [Software is a team sport: Building the future of software development together](https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/software-is-a-team-sport-building-the-future-of-software- … ⌘ Read more

Apple’s next device might make your home a lot smarter
The long-rumoured Apple smart display has reportedly started to take shape – and it could be a lot different to sticking an iPad on your wall. ⌘ Read more

They’re warty, lumpy and bumpy but these ugly pumpkins are prized for their looks
Ornamental pumpkins, sought after in the US for their weird shapes and unique colours, have exploded in popularity as Halloween decorations. ⌘ Read more

Ravioli-Shaped Objects
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CNCF and sustainability: how cloud native projects are shaping the green tech movement
Community post originally published on Medium by Maryam Tavakkoli This article will explore CNCF projects that directly contribute to green technology, helping organizations align with their sustainability goals. In recent years, the conversation around sustainability has expanded beyond… ⌘ Read more

Okay folks, I’ve spent all day on this today, and I think its in “good enough”™ shape to share:

Twtxt v2:

• Specification: https://docs.mills.io/uJXuisaYTRWYDrl8A2jADg?both
  
• implementation: https://gist.mills.io/prologic/afdec15443da4d7aa898f383f171ec1b
  

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Observability and my love for motorcycles: a comparison
Member post by Abhijeet Kakade, Senior Marketing Expert at MSys Technologies Motorcycle riding is my passion, and as an avid motorcycle enthusiast, I really know the importance of regular inspection to keep my bike in top shape. From… ⌘ Read more

** Reshape, in JavaScript and APL **
In APL the rho, ⍴, called reshape is used to both construct arrays of a given shape (dimensionality), and to reconfigure arrays into new shapes.

Sometimes I wish I had reshape in JavaScript…so I wrote it!

Here are two functions that, when combined, a la Captain Planet, can stand in for APL’s reshape in JavaScript.

Ravel is the simpler of the two, it takes an array of any dimension and ret … ⌘ Read more

Apple’s future could be shaped outside the US amid $57b threat in Europe
Apple has just become the first tech giant to be accused of breaching new European competition laws designed to rein in Big Tech. ⌘ Read more

Get the iPadOS 18 Default Wallpapers
iPadOS 18 includes an array of new wallpapers to adorn the backdrop of the iPad, with colorful interesting shapes that are pleasing to the eye. While they may be included in the iPadOS 18 beta, that doesn’t mean you have to brave the betas just to gain access to the new default wallpapers. We’re including … Read More ⌘ Read more

2024 GitHub Accelerator: Meet the 11 projects shaping open source AI
Announcing the second cohort, delivering value to projects, and driving a new frontier.

The post 2024 GitHub Accelerator: Meet the 11 projects shaping open source AI appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Goodnotes Adds New Features That Work With Apple Pencil Pro
Popular note taking app Goodnotes today announced new features that are designed to work with the Apple Pencil Pro that launched alongside the 2024 iPad Pro models. The ‌Apple Pencil‌ Pro supports a squeeze gesture with haptic feedback, as well as a barrel roll for better control over shaped pen and brush tools.

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What next for Scott Farquhar, the godfather of Australian tech?
The billionaire head of the ‘Atlassian mafia’ has the chance to further re-shape Australia’s technology sector, according to those closest to him. ⌘ Read more

11 Years of Docker: Shaping the Next Decade of Development
Eleven years ago, Solomon Hykes walked onto the stage at PyCon 2013 and revealed Docker to the world for the first time. The world of application software development changed forever. ⌘ Read more

Grab This Beautiful Flower Petal Apple Logo Wallpaper
Apple is opening a new store in the Jing’an district of Shanghai, China, this spring, and to celebrate they’ve released a really beautiful wallpaper of unfolding white and yellow flower petals in the shape of an Apple logo. Anyone can enjoy this wallpaper right now on their Mac, iPhone, iPad, or even Windows PC or … Read More ⌘ Read more

The history of winemaking in Australia
Over three lavishly illustrated volumes Andrew Caillard, renowned in Australian and international wine circles for his work as a wine auctioneer, expert, and writer, tells the stories of the people and events that have shaped the wine industry in Australia. ⌘ Read more

Barton Springs Bathhouse restoration underway
The historic Barton Springs Bathhouse is starting a new chapter this week. Crews are beginning a project to keep the building in good shape for generations to come. ⌘ Read more

** Valentines, patron saint of bees, plague, and sushi **
Hot on the heals of recently being interviewed by Manu, I was interviewed by Kristen Foster-Marks from the Developer Success Lab. It was a lot of fun! We had a wide ranging conversation, but often came back around to the importance of“learning … ⌘ Read more

Macintosh Turns 40
The Macintosh computer, which has played a pivotal role in shaping personal computing and design principles throughout the entire tech industry, has turned 40 years old. The first Macintosh debuted on January 23, 1984 as a groundbreaking product. Distinguished with friendly unique hardware design, a revolutionary graphical user interface, the ability to speak text aloud, … Read More ⌘ Read more

Play Tetris on the Mac (or Any Device) via the Web
Tetris is a classic and fun game that has hallmark simple yet challenging gameplay. Something about trying to piece together falling geometric shapes into lines is satisfying, and considering there are some studies that demonstrate Tetris may be good for the brain, what’s not to like? But if you want to play Tetris on your … Read More ⌘ Read more

** A scrappy fiddle **

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I’ve had fun playing at implementing a very basic visual programming system over the last few days. I like the direction I’ve s … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Despite that these AoC math text problems are rather silly in my opinion (reminds me of an exercise in our math book where somebody wanted to carry a railroad rail around an L-shaped corner in the house and the question was how long that rail could be so that it still fits — sure, we’ve all carried several meter long railroad rails in our houses by ourselves numerous times…), these algorithms are really neat!

** an approximately programmer-shaped person **
I was recently interviewed by Manu for his People and Blogs series! It was a great honor to be suggested by Piper for that, and I had a blast responding to all of Manu’s questions.

The December Adventure is in full swing. There are so many fun adventure logs this year. I’ve been mostly focusing on building toys with [Decker](https://beyondloom.com/ … ⌘ Read more

Destiny 2: The Final Shape перенесли с февраля на июнь 2024 года
Как и говорил Джейсон Шрайер.

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Bungie опубликовала пресс-релиз с прежней датой релиза Destiny 2: The Final Shape — Шрайер говорит игрокам не надеяться
При этом на странице DLC появилась пометка, что дата может измениться.

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What’s the most popular drink in the world after water? Hint: It’s not alcohol or coffee.
This is the story behind the drink that started wars and shaped the modern world. ⌘ Read more

Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO
GitHub is driving the future of software development and, after 10 years as a Hubber, I’m more energized than ever as I take on the role of COO to help bring our vision to life. ⌘ Read more

Cosmic Queries – The Shape of the Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Delilah Gates ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863) @PublicDomainRev

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-first-shape-book-little-red-riding-hood-1863**
The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863) @PublicDomainRev

publicdomainreview.org/colle…

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New Year’s Eve 2023
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How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately I’ve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. It’s a quick way to arrange things on a page, copying and pasting most things just works, and there are enough built in shapes and tools to get the point across. However, after spending a full day creating graphics for a video, I found myself frustrated by the number of clicks required to export a single slide at a time. ⌘ Read more

** Thoughts on accessibility in smol computing **
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in.

I’ve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willing to think this stuff through with me.

Before I get into it I want to say at the top this isn’t meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t … ⌘ Read more

How The War in Ukraine Will Shape The Future with Irwin Redlener ⌘ Read more

📚 Finished reading Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain

📚 Finished reading Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain

Pilot Priority List
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Erlang Solutions: How Can Technology Answer the Questions Still Unanswered in FinTech?
Leaders in the fintech industry joined us to discuss how technology can answer the remaining questions in fintech. They explored key technologies shaping the sector that could also have an impact on society as a whole. Join our panel moderated by Andrew Vorster (Innovation Catalyst) featuring Jacky Uys (Mambu … ⌘ Read more

Here’s how academic research is shaping GitHub Discussions
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: My latest @locusmag column is “The Swerve,” a short essay about the shape that hope takes when happy endings are off the table:

https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/ 1/**
My latest @locusmag column is “The Swerve,” a short essay about the shape that hope takes when happy endings are off the table:

locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-do… 1/

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Regina Ip is the right choice to steer Hong Kong’s comeback as Exco convenor
Given her qualifications in the political arena and personal experience in overcoming setbacks, she is more than capable of shaping the terrain of Hong Kong’s political landscape. ⌘ Read more

Elon Musk’s 18-year-old trans child seeks name change to sever ties with father
Vivian Jenna Wilson cited gender identity as a reason for the name change and ‘the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form’. ⌘ Read more

Satire in Hong Kong: ‘You have to laugh, or you will cry,’ says political cartoonist Harry Harrison
Hong Kong’s satire today takes the shape of internet memes, cartoons, protest props, chants of clever word plays, and derivative works to express opposition. ⌘ Read more

Tractor Beam
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Webb
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astrolody: music of the stars↵theolody: divine melody (or god’s earworms)↵topolody: resonance in shapes↵etymolody: singsong of words↵horolody: rhythms intertwined, the song of time advancing↵mytholody: plucked plot threads↵psycholody: that which an EEG should pick up

The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us
In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more

creating vocal tract shapes using the monome grid, and then morphing between them using something like !gest. #halfbakedideas

I want to somehow use my monome grid to build out coarse vocal tract shapes for a physical model like !voc or @!(sndkitref “tract”)!@. 16 diameters with 8 steps of resolution, or 32 diameters with 4 steps of resolution. #halfbakedideas

riding an experimental font renderer through unicode’s outer planes, I found curvy, pointy, zigzaggy, cloudy shapes, glyphs that span lines and punch through pages, diacritics that reach back in time, the entire 2045 uplifted octopus emoji set,

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used to construct the next level of language AI. In fact, why not get on it early, you can now shape how those prompts will turn out in the next generation

Listening to Dance with the Dead - Eye Of Madness from their album The Shape

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, jabber.org is in a bad shape. I have an old account there and ‘donated’ it to the conversations compliance tester. Was afraid when I saw the result.

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives

Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html

Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/

I’d love to see Trigger do a Geobreeders series. The premise had so much potential: a multi-generational war between chuunibyos with computer sigils and shape-shifting cats made of radio waves who live on the internet.

“Shaping our children’s education in computing” by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g

How Eric Hobsbawm helped shape the global Marxist imagination | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-eric-hobsbawm-helped-shape-the-global-marxist-imagination

more zero G sculptures:↵- wearable halos, a few magnets under your hair and you’re magneto↵- fire pulled into various shapes by air currents and electric fields↵- drops of water orbiting statically charged electrodes↵- just a transparent box of metal balls, but you can shake it

Decoding the Unusual Shape of the Nepali Flag - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nepal-flag-shape

Pro tip: avoiding the signifiers of commonly-understood identity constellations both allows you to shape your identity beyond cliche & jams the signal used by advertisers to classify you.

How hunters paved the way for the American environmental movement - Vox https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/6/12/17449154/hunting-culture-shaped-masculinity-the-nra-and-environmentalism

The Shape of Code » Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/05/21/premium-mediocrity-is-software-engineerings-demographic/

a second moon, transparent, lens-shaped and usually invisible, except when it passes in front of a star and lights up as bright as the sun for the blink of an eye

Band name of the day: night shape

Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.

To avoid regrettable incidents, no single engineer - human or AI - is allowed to know the whole shape of the thing. Even hiveminds have to take care - Basilisk Three takes out several AI companies before its existence is recognized

The World’s Most Famous Actor Whose Face You’ve Probably Never Seen https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/doug-jones-star-trek-discovery-the-shape-of-water

Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-can-be-impossible-to-notice/

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-the-kkk-shaped-modern-comic-book-superheroes/

When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html

Bezos and Musk Are Shaping the Worldviews of Future Space Settlements - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywzazy/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-space-settlements-overview-effect

Way out in the void, far from any galaxy, a shape surfaces from under the vacuum, belches out a small star’s worth of hydrogen, dives again

One of the clouds is painted in gaudy colors and surrounded by small flying shapes: The airfolk’s circus, on its way to the capital.

best world shapes: cube, disk↵honorable mention: ring, hypertorus↵experimental: coin, hyperbolic↵potato tier: sphere↵redeemed: hollow sphere

setting: the alien is an infectious space fungus that can grow human-shaped fruiting bodies, but we shape it as much as it shapes us

3.gif: Clouds drifting by the moon. For a few frames, an eye-shaped hole and the moon align to make it look like its shining iris.

She opens her eyes and no, not the eyelids, the eyes: Two hyperspheres swivel around, irises vanish into themselves, cycle colors and shapes

The void is back, drowns out everything else, suffocates, condenses on the horrible shape behind it, reveals the structure of the universe

The shape of cyberspace becomes a matter of much debate: “It’s flat!” “No, it’s round” “It’s both and there is a great firewall at its end!”

“Zggt, making the continents match up in shape was a masterstroke! Their exobiology, it’s all screwy from those plate tectonics ideas!”

human shaped nebula maids sing to lonely miners over their suits’ comms↵oh handsome, why not shed that suit and become one with the cosmos

The day advances and the ghostly structure changes shape, grows and loses pillars, shows different aisles, caresses the frescos on the walls

The pyramid is a known and effective leyline focus. But only recently, its math has become tractable and simulations have found new shapes:

@allgebrah the fundamental shapes are underrepresented among occult and religious symbols↵semioticians, apply yourselves

Her dreams light her eyelids from the inside, visible as vague colorful shapes that illuminate her pillow, sprites run along her skin