Happy #Caturday nap edition
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Mike Rose
@MikeTRose@saturation.social
mastodon 4.5.18@MikeTRose@saturation.social on Threads, BSky, LinkedIn, FB. Brooklyn-based, Salesforce-employed, former Apple blogger & current wisenheimer. Heard at aftershowpodcast.com. (He/him) https://bsky.app/profile/miketrose.bsky.social
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Joined October 30, 2022
This is what America stands for now, until and unless we stop it. Vote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world/africa/us-deportation-hotel-equatorial-guinea.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFE.VUXU.okUmxYzTdKTg&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Ginmiroquai https://youtu.be/Deh9HEHCBYA?is=AZ6jYsIaRAg37BHK
Les Miserables arena concert at Radio City. This is the stuff. #lesmiz
udm14.org: An easy-to-use shortcut for an AI-free Google search. (Try it!) https://udm14.org
Leaving aside the question of the FBI’s current leadership’s fitness for the job, telling the investigative arm of the Justice Department that DHS agents are immune from impartial investigation when they murder people on the street is a five alarm fire.
Took my family to see the Hadestown proshot because we all needed a good cry
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@maccast@podcastindex.social ironically this almost certainly happened while I was at Macstock, one year after you admonished me to bin the Drobo 🥲
Macstock talk: complete 😅 macstockexpo.com/speakers go.mikeroseservices.com/macstock
A former colleague & neighbor (also a teacher, and a single mom) has multiple myeloma; she could use some help getting through the next few months of treatment. 🫶
“Just because a few [ED: many] LEOs are abusing the Torment Nexus to stalk and terrorize women across the country, that’s not a reason to impose any sort of controls or audit requirements on the Torment Nexus — don’t be silly.” #flock #panopticon
Feels like I get at least one of these Invitation Phishes a day. I feel bad for people who are actually planning parties.
https://www.paperlesspost.com/blog/how-to-spot-phishing-scams/
What’s the maximum number of travel prep foul-ups that doesn’t result in actually missing a flight, I feel like we may have a new world record here
whew we are back thank you @irwin@saturation.social and @clive@saturation.social for the hard work migrating the server!
TIL that Jamie Ding, as part of his 31 day #Jeopardy win streak, had to do something no other superchampion has ever done: play 20 games in four calendar days.
(Normal shooting schedule is three consecutive days at most, I assume they were digging out from tournament taping backlog.)
Dang.
not NOW writers’ room — you are at an 8 and we need you at a 3
the level of depravity of these SMS scammers cannot be overstated
(come to my @macstockexpo workshop to discuss how to keep your relatives safe from these cretins and thieves)
Another day, another overwhelming urge to hire a skywriter to spell out NO RIGHT ON RED IN NYC, where everyone can see it
That is an unfortunate short URL
Definitely not me, forgetting I am unmuted on a work call and singing along with the nearby outdoor speakers blaring Hot Chocolate’s classic “You Sexy Thing”
Me: who is vaping on this bus smells awful
Also me: mmm new strawberry chapstick hey wait a second
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
I am relieved that we are finally working on America’s “too many creepy guys who look like Seb Gorka” problem
Going to refer to dirty sodas as “goyishe egg creams” going forward https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/style/dirty-soda-mormon-wives-utah-tiktok.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
PSA: IG DM E2EE EOL, WTF OMG
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/08/instagram-end-to-end-encryption/
(translation: end to end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available; if you want to prevent Meta from mining your DMs for ad targeting/law enforcement, use WhatsApp or Signal instead.)
The Five Boro Bike Tour vs my need to get from Brooklyn to EWR by 5 pm. I think I’m on the losing side here.
Excited for the new Ian Varley podcast on the emerging world of making software for the rest of us! Check it out.
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@reppep@tilde.zone yep! In the front/bar section but it’s subtle, across from the kitchen passthrough. We are there all the time but my wife spotted it last night, never saw it before. Maybe it’s new, I didn’t think to ask Robin.
If you’re thinking of attending Macstock this summer, sign up with my code MIKEROSE and get $50 off your weekend pass. I’ll be speaking there along with David Pogue (!), Brett Terpstra, Doc Rock & many more.
www.macstockconferenceandexpo.com
The next time I say “well it’s easier to drive” to the UWS on Orthodox Easter Sunday… remind me that I just spent 45 min looking for a parking spot
TIL that the name Cynthia is (like Artemis, Luna, Selena/Selene) a reference to the Moon & lunar deities.
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Excuse me while I read this op-ed on two screens at once https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.Lmy-.8M07hFj16l4k&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Checking… yep, still chopping those space onions https://youtu.be/dS9qqzSF3mI?t=719&si=MjeGAMwCzr9F_f7F
GOP in disarray, WH whiplash, Senators shout down POTUS
Excited for the new Ian Varley podcast on the emerging world of making software for the rest of us! Check it out.
New episode of The Aftershow: remembering Chuck La Tournous https://aftershow.simplecast.com/episodes/more-in-memoriam-plus-mom-loves-sexy-hockey
Let it be so