Phil Ringsmuth

Chrome on iOS has been updated. The back button has been replaced with a Gemini button. I use the back button all the time, but now my muscle memory will invoke an AI assistant that I don’t want to use. This is not accidental, they know exactly what they’re doing here.

Does it run iPad apps? No? Then it's not an iPad mini in your pocket.

I’m getting an iPhone Air (512GB, black) on Monday. I am 10x more excited for this than I would be if I were getting a Duo. The Air seems like peak iPhone to me, and the Duo (from everything I’ve seen) a not fully baked first gen experiment. Maybe in a couple years.

It's been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I've gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype -- not a finished product that I'd want to buy and carry.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

PUT ME IN COACH I’M READY

I watched the Tesla Roadster video. Technically impressive from an engineering standpoint, but otherwise it’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.

Daring Fireball: Initial Thoughts on This Week's New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2

Only in my industry can one say they’re pushing fresh nugets.

#Arachtober 13th Eriophora edax eating an Anacua Tortoise Beetle (Coptocycla texana). #spider #macrophotography #arachnid

there are now baby pill millipedes. for your information there are baby pill millipedes here. did I mention the baby pill millipedes

This is kind of funny. T-Mobile's site shows iPhone 16s and 17s as "Built for Apple Intelligence", but the new 18 pros don't have that. Guess I should buy an older phone.

@appleinsider.com At what point did 0.4mm, or a whopping 7% in this case, become a “significant” amount? It’s a clickbait, misleading headline and I think you know it.

Scientists discover the genetic secrets that may have helped Jonathan the tortoise live to 194 years old www.livescience.com/animals/turt...

Extortion. Simple as that.

Thanks Vizio! Not like I was in the middle of a movie or anything.

It should be illegal to have more than a billion dollars in assets and I am so fucking serious

Saw at Walgreens that Mountain Dew was three dollars for a 20oz bottle. THREE DOLLARS. These were 75 cents in the vending machines 25 years ago. That’s literally a 4x price increase. Is there RAM in pop now?

A thunderstorm developed over the Salton Sea just about an hour ago. Cloud-based lightning can be seen as it got darker (Video: Sicco Rood).

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

“Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meta-m...

@theverge.com @andrewrweb.bsky.social @sringsmuth.bsky.social Microsoft’s “Grand Plan” for Halo sounds like something Trump would come up with. No snark, but just change this to “We love Halo. We have all the devs. We have the best devs. The fans deserve it and we’re gonna bring it to them!”

9.10.26 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

First thing I did after upgrading to #MacOS27 #GoldenGate: Disable "Suggested Replies"

Thanks @joannastern.bsky.social, this is great. I like your style, keep it up. youtu.be/th2xl5mcUNw?...

Painting the same butterfly at age 20 and 30. Never give up on your art!

25 years ago? That’s a lifetime. But I remember it like it was yesterday.

Everyone uses the iPad Mini as a point of reference when talking about the iPhone Duo. But I can't find a single video where someone has compared the two. @joannastern.bsky.social stuck a hot dog in a Duo, but didn't have an iPad Mini for comparison 🙁

Here. We. Go. #iPhold

Currently inside Steve Jobs Theater. Surprise and shine...and snack.

Finally. daringfireball.net/2026/09/th...

Tomorrow, iPhold.

@sringsmuth.bsky.social Do you see why this will be my next lens?

*facepalm* You got sued into caring Zuck! Don’t go acting like you got this great idea just now.

Looks like I won't be buying a GoPro any time soon, or ever.

appleinsider.com/articles/26/... Well this is disappointing. It’d be nice to see him take a stand by not using that platform at all.

I hate everything.

@polygon.com Trying to read an article on my phone. I get to use about 30% of my screen for the article, and the rest for ads. This sucks.