Damus

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Capitalism never uses productivity to pay for leisure. It only uses it to pay for more productivity.

We have leisure because of unions, not because of productivity.

(i.e., AI will not result in a 4-day workweek.)
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When I was a kid, I'd commonly see three-ring binders at school that were wrapped in a layer of canvas.

I have a very distinct tactile memory of what it felt like to draw on this with a ballpoint cristal BIC.

I was briefly obsessed with this 20 years ago or so, and very few people remembered what I was talking about. Forget about even being able to find them. I scoured eBay, school supply websites -- I even called Mead headquarters.

Does anybody know what the hell I'm talking about?
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Could an app like Libby or Kobo change their app icon to the cover of whatever book you're reading? Or does something in iOS prevent that?

I know apps can change their icons, but do they have to be assets in the app bundle?
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I really miss Split View and Slideover on iPadOS. Abandoning a uniquely iPad multitasking experience and just putting windowing on it is giving up. Nothing about the windowed experience feels good at all, everything's janky and slow as hell.

I miss my iPad.