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Jason Snell

@jsnell

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Tech journalist and podcaster. I'm mostly just here for the sports (SF Giants, Cal Football, Arsenal) these days.

Monkeyhouse, Mill Valley, CA

https://t.co/uMEvO5wbS9

Joined February 2007

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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@jsnell

Jason Snell

2 years

Just a reminder in case you're not planning on sticking around on Twitter, you can always interact with me on the: * @bleedsixcolors member Discord * @theincomparable member Slack and (with some limitations) on the: * @RelayFM member Discord * @TWiT member Discord

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I did this and I'm not sorry

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Exactly this. Disney's argument is that a corporation can make a contract with someone, then launder it through a second corporation, at which point it no longer needs to uphold the obligations of the contract. Amazing stuff. #DisneyMustPay

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The comparison made was that if they are allowed to do this, it could mean any company could sell works they had contracted to a sibling company and thus rid themselves of the pesky need to pay the creator they had contracted with.

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@TwitterDev You are full of shit.

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Animoji karaoke is sweeping the nation

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6 years

Congratulations to the @49ers on their great victory over the children of Santa Clara County.

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@KaplanSportsBiz

6 years

The @49ers won a significant tax victory, successfully appealing in getting the the tax on Levi's Stadium cut 50%. That means an immediate $31 mil refund, and $6 mil lower tax bill each year. the county said this will cause a big cut in educational funding

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To image a black hole they needed half a ton of hard drives containing five petabytes of data. The fastest way to transfer that data? Airplane. An airplane data transfer from Mauna Kea to Massachusetts would have a data rate of roughly 14GB per second.

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Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives

That’s a black hole. Source: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. In a legitimately amazing achievement for humanity, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration announced that it has directl…

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Jason Snell

4 years

George Will: "The person voters hired in 2016 to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed' stood in front of police and urged them 'please don’t be too nice' when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement."

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Bill Kristol

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Wow. THIS is a column.

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3 years

This Mac, which my wife used throughout college, came back to life today.

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2 years

Oh now that I'm no longer under embargo, enjoy this message I got last week!

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4 years

Phil Schiller did say he wanted to work on some new hobbies

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jon prosser

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Yo, the Front Page Tech channel was somehow hacked. @TeamYouTube - help ASAP

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10 years

Boy, remember when they made death threats against Roger Ebert when he said video games weren't art? No? Oh that's right, they didn't.

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2 years

A couple of months before the Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian iMacs were announced, Apple got very angry with us about these two Macworld covers. Only later did we suddenly understand why.

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4 years

here's a shot of the back of the iPhone 12 clear case with MagSafe

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5 years

THE AND THE FAST FURIOUS

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6 years

Today you all woke up in a world where this is true

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7 years

The eagle has landed

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2 years

Wait for it... #systemsettings

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5 years

I don't care why Apple is listening to my audio and I don't care that it's happening in a "secure facility." I do not want my audio recordings to be listened to by human beings or retained for further study. Disclose this better and let me opt out.

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Apple employees listen to Siri audio samples

A report from The Guardian today details that Apple uses employees to listen to some Siri audio as a part of its attempt to improve the Siri service: Although Apple does not explicitly disclose it …

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Techmeme

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Source: Apple contractors grading Siri responses regularly hear sensitive info with data that may identify user, often due to accidental Siri activations ( @alexhern / The Guardian)

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6 years

Here's the Apple invite art I got!

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8 years

Twitter is the only place where you can watch a random dude explain how much CGI is in “The Force Awakens” to a guy who works at ILM.

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When Apple ships a future device with the next generation of the U1 ultra wideband wireless chip, people will complain that Apple keeps putting U2 on their phones...

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4 years

"You're the worst President America has ever had." Poor Millard Fillmore. It was all he had left.

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5 years

Let me officially kick off the iOS 14 wish list with the radical concept of progress bars for file transfers.

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10 years

Do you want to sell sugar water your whole life, or build a payment system to let others wirelessly sell sugar water? http://t.co/gXDLzLQKFR

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5 years

Me: Apple could always use its anti-malware protection to bring down the hammer on Zoom's invisible web server. Apple: 🔨

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4 years

We hate you. Pound sand.

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Apple: We've got iCloud folder sharing coming! Me: Eh, Dropbox works really well for me and you're still missing some stuff. Dropbox: Enterprise collaboration! Google Docs and Slack inside a Dropbox! Me: Uh, you were saying, Apple?

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Jason Snell

4 years

This is a disgusting attack on software by @RIAA . While Youtube-DL is a tool that can be used for piracy, it also has numerous legal applications. I use it almost every week, legally, to do my job. @github needs to get it together.

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Justin Ling (Has Left)

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The music industry is trying to kill this clever piece of code which lets journalists and researchers download Youtube videos. Weaponizing the DMCA to attack tools, under the guise that they *could* be used to pirate material, is a very dangerous propsect.

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Jason Snell

4 years

Editorial note: Being against insurrections isn't "too political."

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Six Colors

@bleedsixcolors

4 years

Anybody who thinks that, during a week where the president of the United States incited a deadly attack at the Capitol and tried to overthrow a legitimate election, we shouldn't "get political" regarding stories about deplatforming those people, is welcome to stop reading. -j.s.

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Jason Snell

6 years

I’d have a lot more sympathy for @TwitterDev taking control of its platform if it had ever showed any ability to create great user experiences itself. Instead it’s been @Twitterrific & @tweetbot that have done the work to make the platform better. #BreakingMyTwitter

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2 years

Follow-up: This display is running a current build of iOS 15.4 and generates its own sysdiagnose file containing the phrase "iPhone-OS_AppleDisplay." So it's basically an iPhone 11.

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Jason Snell

3 years

I'm probably one of the few people who gets the Antennagate press conference in my Apple Photos Memories...

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7 years

By popular demand, I’ve updated my Apple Watch sales chart.

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4 years

As many years as colors as of today. Thanks everyone.

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7 years

Tim Cook reportedly buying "three big, beautiful plants" for his new office at Apple Park.

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7 years

RIP Stephen Furst. Another great Babylon 5 actor gone.

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2 years

Hat tip to @pinatubo2000 for being the other reviewer to snap the Mac Studio with a G4 Cube. Great minds and all.

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Jason Snell

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When released in March 1990, the base configuration of the Mac IIfx cost $9,000, which is $17,930 today. (The Mac Pro's base config is $6000.)

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Mark Gurman

5 years

Apple’s New Mac Pro Can Cost $52,000. That’s Without the $400 Wheels.

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5 years

I've been editing @theincomparable on my iPad with an Apple Pencil for about ten months now. I thought I'd document my process in a video, so here it is:

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Editing Demo - Ferrite + iPad + Apple Pencil

I edit a lot of podcasts, and these days one of my most common editing approaches is to use an iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil, and Ferrite Recording Studio. Peopl...

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How it started / how it's going

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Jason Snell

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<reads another complaint about there being too many subscription apps, websites, and streaming services> Back in the day there were hundreds of magazines you could subscribe to. You had to pick the ones you wanted to read, pay for them, and not read the rest. It was fine.

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Jason Snell

4 years

Go away, sad orange fool

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2 years

Oh hi

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2 years

RIP Twitterrific for macOS.

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4 years

This is ridiculous. Disney thinks that it can purchase rights but evade paying royalties? What a scam... #DisneyMustPay

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8 years

I searched on Amazon to find out how much a tube man costs and now every page I visit on the Internet makes me smile

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6 years

Accidental street dudes @ London, United Kingdom

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3 years

VeraniSports seems like a very good website #TedLasso

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Jason Snell

7 years

Wonder if there’s some other hardware product Apple could use the iBook name for 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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Ryan Christoffel

7 years

In iOS 11.3, iBooks is now just Books.

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10 years

The new Grantland without @BillSimmons is really shaping up to be excellent, though. http://t.co/5eexcJcvu9

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2 years

Oh hey it's me at @verge !

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The Verge

2 years

The myth of xMac, the midrange Mac tower that never was, by @jsnell :

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3 years

somehow this is my life

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5 years

FX is Hulu and Hulu is FX. They are Disney's more adult-oriented brands. It could be a very good marriage.

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Variety

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FX to Produce Original Series for Hulu as Brands Become More Closely Intertwined

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4 years

He uses Microsoft Teams because St. Peter bought an O365 site license.

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2 years

Good news! The replacement Studio Display came today, and it works! It is now floating above my desk, as was prophesied.

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5 years

Did some work in macOS Catalina today on a Retina MacBook Air booted from an external SSD. Portability was ensured by worst possible method: duct tape.

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4 years

The top of the 20 Macs for 2020 list is the Mac that saved Apple.

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20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3

You can divide Mac history in a bunch of different ways. But perhaps the clearest line of demarcation is the mid-1998 release of the original iMac. The first era of the Mac, begun in 1984, was endi…

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6 years

RIP good QuickTime Player 😉

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3 years

. @reckless is such a talented writer, and he knows this issue cold, and this is a delight to read:

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Starlink review: broadband dreams fall to Earth

The reality is a lot more irritating.

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Jason Snell

5 years

Me: Oh boy a Dropbox survey! Maybe they're seeing the error of their ways when it comes to choices they're making for small businesses like mine! Dropbox: Do you send faxes? Me: .... No? Dropbox: OK that's all we wanted to know!

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4 years

Not the usual concession speech but it'll do

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3 years

So some Safari on macOS Monterey news... they moved the Favorites Bar back up where it belongs. Apple really is still tweaking Mac Safari...

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Jason Snell

6 years

iPad Pro dreams: If it's truly got an A12X processor, could Apple maybe make Safari offer a Mac user agent so we can not load mobile web pages by default? We've got a big screen and the best JavaScript benchmarks, we can take it!

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7 years

Apple Watch sales figures still looking good

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6 years

The president of the United States is a dumbshit.

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5 years

I talked to an exec at a company that makes UWB chips to get a better idea how Apple's embrace of this tech in the iPhone 11 family could mean big things beyond AirDrop and tile trackers:

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The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution

Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn’t yet announced. The new U1 chip–introduced with the iPhone 11 but …

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Jason Snell

7 years

WWDC sticker haul

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5 years

After 24 hours of trying to use Catalina in earnest with all my data and apps intact, the new security features are incredibly annoying. Apps constantly asking for permission to see various folders, lots of relaunches and trips to System Preferences. It's really unpleasant.

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4 years

Wow, this iPad cursor stuff is really great. Like, beyond what I hoped for iOS 14. And it's here today (GM) / next week (full release).

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Jason Snell

5 years

My daughter was born 15 days later, with an iPod (press beta unit) in the delivery room.

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MacRumors.com

5 years

18 years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod

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6 years

Me: "Hey Siri, play my playlist 'Top Songs of 2018'" HomePod: "Here's CLASH's Top 40 Songs of 2018" Rather than play a playlist of mine with that exact title, Siri decided I wanted to hear a random magazine's shared playlist. I love how HomePod sounds, but this is garbage.

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Jason Snell

6 years

Yeah, it's a real mystery about why people want to use third-party Twitter apps. I hope someone finally gets to the bottom of this.

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Rob Johnson

6 years

We’ve heard feedback ( #breakingmytwitter ) from our customers about the pain this causes. We’re committed to understanding why people hire 3rd party clients over our own apps, and we’re going to do better with communicating changes

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3 years

This week @AgileBits said it would replace the native Mac version of @1Password . I understand the business decision (and the current state of SwiftUI is an accomplice), but in the end I'm just sad that the Mac isn't important enough for many developers.

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Jason Snell

3 years

"Office space is necessary," lies CEO of company that only exists to furnish office space.

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The Wall Street Journal

3 years

WeWork's CEO tells WSJ there is an easy way for companies to spot their most engaged employees: They’re the ones who want to come back to the office. “Those who are least engaged are very comfortable working from home,” he said.

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The prosperous suburb of Dongletown is located just outside Camera Bump City, the largest metropolitan area in Siracusa County

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@imyke

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Jason Snell

2 years

As someone who uses Up Next on an Apple TV every single day, pushing Up Next down to make room for stuff I didn't choose is a spectacularly bad decision. This is like Netflix taking the shows I'm watching and hiding them amid dozens of other titles. WTF.

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John Siracusa

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This ain’t it, Apple.

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Jason Snell

5 years

Would be a real shame if Apple suspended his account because they don't like that he's smart enough to uncover things they've accidentally shipped publicly. That would be petty retaliation.

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Guilherme Rambo

5 years

Back in August, Apple locked me out of my developer account, preventing me from updating my apps on the App Store. They didn’t provide any explanation or reason, and since then I’ve reached out to them many times, without success.

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Jason Snell

6 years

Nice to take a dog walk and see a space launch

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5 years

Apple, what are you doing

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Wooji Juice

5 years

One of the weirder decisions Apple made for iOS 13 is to take this icon, which you're probably very familiar with as meaning "bookmarks", and redefine it to mean "Apple Books", and ban its use for anything else:

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Jason Snell

4 years

I know that watchOS 7 uses machine learning to notice that you're washing your hands, but perhaps Apple could use some machine learning to more accurately detect standing too?

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Jason Snell

7 years

What color stickers does the iMac Pro come with? How much blacker could they be?

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Jason Snell

8 years

Engaging with influencers

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Jason Snell

4 years

Starting to suspect the president is a seditious traitor

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Jason Snell

6 years

The president of the United States blames the media for the ills of the world. Fuck this guy.

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

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6 years

The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!

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Jason Snell

4 years

Only mob I saw was the one you egged on, Senator Sedition. Also, you might want to learn better lessons from Orwell. He was warning us about people like you.

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Josh Hawley

4 years

My statement on the woke mob at @simonschuster

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5 years

That magic moment when everything changed... #ios13 #fileaccess

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Jason Snell

7 years

I did a bad thing. #AnimojiKaraoke #AnimojiTrek

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Animoji Kirk versus Animoji Khan. Made on iPhone X.

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Jason Snell

2 years

@AstroKatie Like 20 years ago I went to my doctor and said, "I think I might be dying?" and he said "No, you just have the flu." Like everyone, I thought "the flu" was just a really bad cold. It is so not that. People still don't understand.

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Jason Snell

9 years

New Apple TV sales chart.

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Jason Snell

7 years

RIP Rance Howard, who was wonderful as Sheridan's dad on Babylon 5.

@RealRonHoward

Ron Howard

7 years

Clint & I have been blessed to be Rance Howard’s sons. Today he passed at 89. He stood especially tall 4 his ability to balance ambition w/great personal integrity. A depression-era farm boy, his passion for acting changed the course of our family history. We love & miss U Dad.

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Jason Snell

2 years

Apple historians only do stuff like this because Apple has no sense of its own history. Apple, if you want to post this stuff on your own YouTube channel, go right ahead.

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Brendan Shanks

2 years

Congratulations Apple, you took down my YouTube channel containing hundreds of…20-year old WWDC videos. Wouldn’t want anyone learning about Mac OS X, Darwin, Aqua, or WebObjects 🤣 @tim_cook @pschiller @gruber @jsnell @ismh @mjtsai @reneritchie @reckless

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Jason Snell

4 years

The way it should work in a democracy: When you lose an election you try to figure out how to change your message/policies to appeal to a broader slice of the electorate. Georgia GOP: Let's just change the laws again to make it even harder to vote.

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Sam Levine

4 years

GOP chair of the Gwinnett County elections board on why she wants GA legislature to impose new restrictions on voting. “They don’t have to change all of them, but they’ve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning.”

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Jason Snell

3 years

now this is how you do an announcement

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Apple TV

3 years

BREAKING: Big announcement from Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jason Sudeikis (and Ron something) #MythicQuest is returning for Seasons 3 & 4

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4 years

A familiar voice appears!

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Jason Snell

4 years

Little buddies (iPhone 5/SE on left, iPhone 12 mini on right)

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Jason Snell

5 years

Yep, the first thing I did this morning was contact a half-dozen solar companies to get quotes on solar panel installation and battery backup.

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Jason Snell

4 years

This administration has reached the "declare bankruptcy and file lawsuits" portion of his career playbook

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Jason Snell

7 years

HomePod is a good name. Not just iPod reference but EarPods and AirPods too. RIP "Siri Speaker"

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