Joseph Cerro

@ATabarrok 100%

Nowadays when a student email opens with a blunt demand instead of wishing me well, I think: ah, sweet kid, no AI.

@SplinteredMind @grok I think it is happening more frequently than in the past with ChatGPT and Sonnet, too. I've decided that the Gell-Mann amnesia effect is just as important to watch for with AI as it is with the news.

Arguing with @Grok again. I dislike how LLM AI makes stuff up with 100% confidence. If I have to doubt & verify everything it tells me, I might as well look it up on my own from the start.

Today, Apple announced "macOS Touch". Just kidding. iPadOS is finally getting true windows and a menu bar. #WWDC25

Unavoidable, I suppose, but this is how @nytimes finally dies by its own hands: "The New York Times Help Wanted: Looking for an AI Editor to Start Publishing Stories: Six Figure Salary" showbiz411.com/2023/10/27/the…

@Yankees @StarrCompanies Once the @Yankees sold out for the Nike swoosh, I knew it was only a matter of time. Still, it's very disappointing.

Our home and away uniforms with the Starr Insurance patch.

As a long-time fan of #TweetDeck, I ask, "What could possibly go wrong?"

@boltyboy @john_chilmark @ChilmarkHIT A sad day, indeed.

Sad news-- @john_chilmark has died. His son John Moore III announced it on Linkedin yesterday. He ran @ChilmarkHIT putting out great content with a great sense of humor for about 15 years. He'd announced he was moving to hospice care last March. I'll be lifting a glass to him

If you're at #BioIT23 this week, be sure to say hello!

@manimota Among the books I simply do not have the heart to remove from my shelves -- even though I no longer work in a lab -- is one known simply as "Maniatis." (Full respect to Fritsch and Sambrook, of course.)

Since it is my 15th anniversary on Twitter, I scrolled through some old tweets. This one still rings as true today as it did when I shared it five years ago:

More recently, on that other platform... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

15 years on Twitter? It's all @miketrap's fault for telling me to try it. Soon, I was organizing & live-tweeting healthcare conferences, & @markhawker listed me as one of the top "tweeple" in healthcare. It was a brief, innocent time. #oldtwitter #healthcamp #MyTwitterAnniversary

@tempelorg Thanks for posting. Very useful!

Okay, I've now posted it on my rather outdated Blogger site instead: blog.tempel.org/2022/12/failed…

Finally, after 1000s having had the same issue ("Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot") and never getting a solution, I posted a fix for High Sierra: discussions.apple.com/thread/2544715…

@pbleic One of the criticisms of the "blue check" was that you couldn't apply for it. Instead, you were selected for it, leading to accusations of arbitrariness. In 2021, twitter started allowing people to request verification, but only if you fit certain profiles mashable.com/article/how-to…

Honest question out of curiosity. I have never figured out how to “apply” for a blue check. Never saw anything to click on to do this. Won’t pay $8/mos for one. But, I STILL don’t see any way to do this. What am I missing?

@MarioGuzman @MaxRovensky FWIW, renaming playlists directly in the sidebar is supported in iTunes 12.9.5.5 on Mojave.

@lapcatsoftware It reminds me of the old days when bloggers would use sidebar blogrolls to promote the work of peers. Not a bad system.

@annoyingfeed A related annoyance: since scroll bars seem to be unwelcome in "modern" interfaces, if a line of text ends cleanly on the bottom edge of the text area, there may be no indication that additional, sometimes critical, information is hidden from view.

”If only there was enough space to display the entire text. If only this was a first-class native experience and not like a web view...“ annoying.technology/posts/32ccc6e1…

@annoyingfeed I've experienced this glitch many times in similar circumstances, e.g., when picking up the phone and using Face ID to unlock it in the same motion. It seems to happen if the phone unlocks during a transition between portrait and landscape or vice versa.

”Exclusive AT leak: iOS already includes foldable iPhone code!!!111 (I think this might be some kind of accessibility feature?...“ annoying.technology/posts/cb0d3fee…

@morrick I need a new Mac laptop for personal use, and I've decided to get an M1 Air instead of a comparably equipped M2 Air simply to avoid the notch. I want more space for menus and app/status icons, not less.

New, on Morrick.me — The notch is wrong: feedback and follow-up: morrick.me/archives/9633

@lapcatsoftware A user has preferences, while a device or a program has settings. Sure, "Settings" may take less screen real estate, but something important and human is lost when we de-emphasize a user's "Preferences."

New blog post "How to restore the Preferences menu item to macOS Ventura" lapcatsoftware.com/articles/Prefe…