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iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown

Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Still Stands Up to Repairs
To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts. But the iPhone Air proves…

It is July and the best film of the year is still IMHO* Companion.
If you don't mind blood you should check it out. Best not to know anything else though I sort of knew too much but still really loved it.
*The H stands for "humble" (not "honest" though in this case I am) but it actually means that I am arrogant.
#Films

Just finished "The Melancholy of Summer" by Louisa Onomé. It's an excellent book about parental abandonment, rejecting and accepting help, and friendship, set in Toronto. There were a few threads that didn't quite get wrapped up by the end, but the ending wasn't dissatisfying, and the writing is excellent, particularly TV gee dialogue and the narration of Summer's thoughts. I felt like the strategic use of stutters both gave the main character extra vulnerability, but also helped subtly clue the reader into moments where Summer's perception of her interlocutors doesn't match their real feelings. Between this and "Like Home", I feel like Onomé's novels are a bit rough around the edges, yet they're still some of the most enjoyable books I've been reading, probably because she's pours so much humanity into her characters and lets their honest desire for something better rub off on the audience.
#AmReading

honestly feeling pretty fuckin' bleak at the moment, *BUT* i do get to go on @… & play a bunch of fantastic (mostly) not-bleak #music for falling/floating/back-stroking through hot stupid summer skies. come hang & listen with me. tune in:

FBI joins manhunt following double homicide in Arkansas state park (Kyler Swaim/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/mid-south/arkansas-devils-den-state-park-homicide-fbi/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p118#a250728p118

Raiders Leak Honest Impressions of Amari Cooper Following Retirement News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/amari-cooper-retirement-leak/?adt_ei=[email]

Honestly, between the fascism, climate records breaking monthly, and AI I'd say we've arrived at the singularity.
Since the pandemic I've been feeling it's pointless, but every day I'm more and more certain it's not worth investing anything "for the future" any more.
So yeah I'm probably buying a guitar

Joe Rogan's Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI
AI might already be hiding its real capabilities. That’s what Dr. Roman Yampolskiy told Rogan in a podcast episode that will rattle both skeptics and true believers.

@… Honestly I’d take a “vacation” to the country under those terms. Getting to go away on the cheap, AND I don’t have to be bored feeling like I’m “wasting time”? It’s the best of both worlds.

Heyyy, I kinda felt a little sorry for feeling your feed tonight, but honestly I was just bursting with self-love and all the queer sparkle ✨💖

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Liujian Tang, Shaokang Dong, Yijia Huang, Minqi Xiang, Hongtao Ruan, Bin Wang, Shuo Li, Zhihui Cao, Hailiang Pang, Heng Kong, He Yang, Mingxu Chai, Zhilin Gao, Xingyu Liu, Yingnan Fu, Jiaming Liu, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Zhang, Kang Wang, Yunke Zhang, Yuran Wang

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
This paper presents MagicGUI, a foundational mobile GUI agent designed to address critical challenges in perception, grounding, and reasoning within real-world mobile GUI environments. The framework is underpinned by following six key components: (1) a comprehensive and accurate dataset, constructed via the scalable GUI Data Pipeline, which aggregates the largest and most diverse GUI-centric multimodal data to date from open-source repositories, automated crawling, and targeted manual annotatio…