Now, a $1,999 MacBook Pro can have a monthly payment of $38.99 over 36 months.

$38.99 * 36 = $1403.64. That doesn’t seem right.

Macrumors has a more detailed analysis (different device in their example):

If you return the iPhone 17 Pro and simply move on from the Apple Upgrade program, then your total cost to own the device would be $551.88 after 12 months, plus sales tax if applicable. While that is less than paying $1,099 upfront, the catch is that you are no longer in possession of the device after your lease ends and cannot resell it or trade it in.

Seems like it’s just designed to keep people buying new hardware regularly.

Not a lot of reporting in it yet, but I see an article from 404 media. Maybe I’ll donate to them instead.

Find this reference on Reddit.

I think I’ll stop my donations. Nothing gets executives’ attention like dropping revenue. I read a lot of exec responses to employee dissatisfaction at other big tech companies that basically said ‘too bad if a bunch of you are unhappy, the company is doing great so we’re right, you can leave.’

Green guy does not look thrilled to be next.

But only if you shared the generated link on some crawlable page? Or did they leak a list of share links so crawlers found them? The latter seems much more serious, and I can’t tell which it was from reading a couple articles.

Yeah, I can already find more bugs than can be fixed on schedule just by looking in the Jira backlog.

I learned Ansible for this purpose, so all the modified configs live in a git repo. I still get lazy and modify some things directly (looking at you Minecraft plugins) but a lot of it is pretty easy to set up via IaC.

So, about $2M over 5 years. I wonder how far that would have gone for better sanitation on the farms.

Many of the most practical uses I’ve heard for AI are cleaning up messes AI caused.

Ah, I’ve been wondering how to accelerate defunding police.

List of votes.

Democratic No votes:

Adams, Alma S. [D-NC]	Democratic	North Carolina	No
Aguilar, Pete [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Beatty, Joyce [D-OH]	Democratic	Ohio	No
Bell, Wesley [D-MO]	Democratic	Missouri	No
Bishop, Sanford D. [D-GA]	Democratic	Georgia	No
Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA]	Democratic	Pennsylvania	No
Budzinski, Nikki [D-IL]	Democratic	Illinois	No
Case, Ed [D-HI]	Democratic	Hawaii	No
Casten, Sean [D-IL]	Democratic	Illinois	No
Castor, Kathy [D-FL]	Democratic	Florida	No
Cisneros, Gilbert Ray [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO]	Democratic	Missouri	No
Clyburn, James E. [D-SC]	Democratic	South Carolina	No
Cohen, Steve [D-TN]	Democratic	Tennessee	No
Conaway, Herbert C. [D-NJ]	Democratic	New Jersey	No
Correa, J. Luis [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Costa, Jim [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Courtney, Joe [D-CT]	Democratic	Connecticut	No
Craig, Angie [D-MN]	Democratic	Minnesota	No
Cuellar, Henry [D-TX]	Democratic	Texas	No
Davids, Sharice [D-KS]	Democratic	Kansas	No
DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT]	Democratic	Connecticut	No
DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA]	Democratic	Washington	No
Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Fields, Cleo [D-LA]	Democratic	Louisiana	No
Figures, Shomari [D-AL]	Democratic	Alabama	No
Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX]	Democratic	Texas	No
Foster, Bill [D-IL]	Democratic	Illinois	No
Frankel, Lois [D-FL]	Democratic	Florida	No
Gillen, Laura [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Golden, Jared F. [D-ME]	Democratic	Maine	No
Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Gonzalez, Vicente [D-TX]	Democratic	Texas	No
Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ]	Democratic	New Jersey	No
Gray, Adam [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Himes, James A. [D-CT]	Democratic	Connecticut	No
Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD]	Democratic	Maryland	No
Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH]	Democratic	Ohio	No
Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL]	Democratic	Illinois	No
Landsman, Greg [D-OH]	Democratic	Ohio	No
Larsen, Rick [D-WA]	Democratic	Washington	No
Larson, John B. [D-CT]	Democratic	Connecticut	No
Latimer, George [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Lee, Susie [D-NV]	Democratic	Nevada	No
Levin, Mike [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Liccardo, Sam T. [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Lieu, Ted [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
McBath, Lucy [D-GA]	Democratic	Georgia	No
McClain Delaney, April [D-MD]	Democratic	Maryland	No
McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-VA]	Democratic	Virginia	No
McDonald Rivet, Kristen [D-MI]	Democratic	Michigan	No
Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]	Democratic	New Jersey	No
Meng, Grace [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD]	Democratic	Maryland	No
Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Moskowitz, Jared [D-FL]	Democratic	Florida	No
Mrvan, Frank J. [D-IN]	Democratic	Indiana	No
Norcross, Donald [D-NJ]	Democratic	New Jersey	No
Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC]	Democratic	District of Columbia	No
Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD]	Democratic	Maryland	No
Pallone, Frank [D-NJ]	Democratic	New Jersey	No
Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA]	Democratic	Washington	No
Peters, Scott H. [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Pou, Nellie [D-NJ]	Democratic	New Jersey	No
Riley, Josh [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Rivas, Luz M. [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Ruiz, Raul [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL]	Democratic	Illinois	No
Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI]	Democratic	Michigan	No
Schrier, Kim [D-WA]	Democratic	Washington	No
Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL]	Democratic	Alabama	No
Sherman, Brad [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Sorensen, Eric [D-IL]	Democratic	Illinois	No
Soto, Darren [D-FL]	Democratic	Florida	No
Stanton, Greg [D-AZ]	Democratic	Arizona	No
Stevens, Haley M. [D-MI]	Democratic	Michigan	No
Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA]	Democratic	Washington	No
Subramanyam, Suhas [D-VA]	Democratic	Virginia	No
Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Sykes, Emilia Strong [D-OH]	Democratic	Ohio	No
Thanedar, Shri [D-MI]	Democratic	Michigan	No
Titus, Dina [D-NV]	Democratic	Nevada	No
Torres, Norma J. [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Torres, Ritchie [D-NY]	Democratic	New York	No
Vargas, Juan [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX]	Democratic	Texas	No
Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA]	Democratic	Virginia	No
Walkinshaw, James R. [D-VA]	Democratic	Virginia	No
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL]	Democratic	Florida	No
Whitesides, George [D-CA]	Democratic	California	No
Williams, Nikema [D-GA]	Democratic	Georgia	No
Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL]	Democratic	Florida	No

In a potentially more ominous development, SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, and the University of Southern California have in separate legal actions challenged the constitutionality of the NLRB

Nuts, didn’t realize Trader Joe’s was on the evil list.

Lots of useful examples in the article though, thanks for sharing.

I’m male, but haven’t heard of this level of fatigue from my female friends / wife. It does sound like having a young child though (minus the part about getting >8h sleep).

Normal or not, sounds terrible, hope it improves!

Thought I recognized the style — credit to xkcd. Please cite your source / sorry if I missed it!

Newsweek has an image, credited to YouTube/Jessica Denson:

There’s a Spotfund by “DOOR LLC”, I’m not familiar with the platform or the sponsor.

Ah, thought for a second we were talking about firing the president.

The landing page doesn’t really show any of the cool stuff.

While these fines may seem exorbitant, it is worrying that the financial impact of such punishments rarely acts as a deterrent to these large technology companies, whose market capitalisation runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Yeah. We need the equivalent of the giant “stop work” stickers that get plastered on a building’s front door when construction doesn’t have a permit. Otherwise it’s just another operating cost to pass along to VCs/users.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the current Connected Vehicle Rule to sell cars in the U.S. from model year 2027 on. That’s because Polestar is a subsidiary of Geely, a Chinese automaker. Ironically, Polestar’s sister brand, also owned by Geely, Volvo, was granted the authorization in May.

What’s the Connected Vehicle Rule? From the Bureau of Industry and Security (is that a thing?):

On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a rule restricting the import and sale of certain connected vehicles and related hardware/software linked to China or Russia. BIS determined these transactions pose national security risks, as companies from these countries may be compelled to share data or allow remote access to connected vehicles in the United States.

So, the reported ban seems capricious, but I wouldn’t mind one solution: stop making cars connected. The key fob uses its local protocol for lock/unlock and remote start, my phone uses bluetooth for charge controls and status, and there’s a scren that uses Android Auto. Car companies stop trying to write UX and network stacks.