Lavender Jack! Lavender Jack! Lavender Jack is back!

Conversing with Manton about this post and with my friends in the US on their trials and tribulations when dealing with anything related to money (transfers, the IRS), I get the impression that the US, for all its strengths, is really behind on tech adoption.

As someone who did not use voice assistants at all, I’ve found Google Assistant to be very useful to set a quick timer in the morning. I don’t know if I’ll have other uses for it, though we will see as time goes on.

I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to get the new Macbook Air or the 14 inch Macbook Pro. I was gravitating towards the Pro but the image of the two side by side in John Gruber’s review really sold me on the Air. That difference in thickness is quite stunning.

I enjoyed this article by Elizabeth Lopatto on the Twitter nonsense: Twitter aims its most powerful weapon at Elon Musk: his own tweets. Much of it is discussed on the most recent episode of the Vergecast, but I love how Lopatto gets angrier and angrier as the article goes on.

After seeing Sorted Food on Tom Scott’s Plus channel, I have been hooked on their videos. I don’t think I’ve seen a bad video, and their friendship shines through in everything I’ve seen so far.

I loved posting every day as part of the MB May Photoblogging challenge. Now I’m looking for something to post about in June. I’m thinking of trying this writing challenge from Mary Robinette Kowal: www.patreon.com/posts/30-…

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