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Some big personal news: I’ve joined the Design Team at Apple. So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products. ✌️

@SnazzyLabs all the best Quinn!

Got surgery tomorrow so this in some hot water is my dinner. Mmmmmmm.

@jendarhy Neat. Presumably the numerals have to be in-spec, ie you can’t do custom type for them?

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@nobulart von Däniken is a guy who just made stuff up for publicity. This was a lot harder to debunk without internet in the 70s, obviously. All of this is ridiculous nonsense.

"In the Peruvian Andes, Francisco Pizarro (1478–1541) discovered cave entrances closed with slabs of rock on Huascaran, the mountain of the Incas, 22,203 ft. above sea-level. The Spaniards suspected that there were store-rooms behind them. Speleologists did not remember these caves until 1971, when an expedition was organised. The periodical Bild der Wissenschaft gave an account of the expedition which descended in the neighbourhood of the Peruvian village of Otuzco equipped with all the latest technical equipment (winches, electric cables, miner’s lamps and hydrogen bottles). 200 ft. below the earth the scientists made a staggering discovery. At the far end of caves which had several storeys they suddenly found themselves confronted with water-tight doors made of gigantic slabs of rock. In spite of their tremendous weight, four men were able to push the doors open. They pivoted on stone balls in a bed formed by dripping water. Bild der Wissenschaften reported as follows: ‘Vast tunnels, which would leave even modern underground constructors green with envy, began behind the “six doors”. These tunnels lead straight towards the coast, at times with a slope of 14 per cent. The floor is covered with stone slabs that have been pitted and grooved to make them slip-proof. If it is an adventure even today to penetrate these 55 to 65 mile-long transport tunnels in the direction of the coast and finally reach a spot 80 ft. below sea level, imagine the difficulties that must have been involved in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in transporting goods deep under the Andes to save them from the grasp of Pizarro and the Spanish Viceroy. The Great Ocean lurks at the end of the underground passages of ‘Guanape’, so called after the island that lies off the coast of Peru here, because it is assumed that these passages once led under the sea to this island. After the passages have gone uphill and downhill several times in pitch darkness, a murmur and the strangely hollow sounding noise of surf is heard. In the light of the searchlight the next downhill slope ends on the edge of a pitch black flood which is identified as seawater. The present-day coast also begins here underground. Was this not the case in former times?’" - Erich von Daniken, The Gold of the Gods (1972)[1]. The original report likely referred to a coastal exit opposite or near Guaynuma/Huaynuná, west-southwest of Huascarán, at approximately the quoted 55–65 mile distance. The printed name may be a mistranscription, translation artifact, or editorial normalization of a local Áncash coastal toponym. The present day Guañape Islands in La Libertad lie closer to 100 miles to the northwest. There do not appear to be any digital copies of the original Bild der Wissenschaft article available online, but there are physical copies of the periodical from this period available. Any sleuths in Berlin?[2] [1] archive.org/details/bwb_O7… [2] kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/bild…

@nebelcanal this is a no brainer if you ever spent any time in muskeg

Gun to your head, WOULD YOU RATHER live/work, steward, and keep animals on ... - 5 acres of SE Alaskan (Alexander Archipelago) style muskeg - 5 acres of Olympic Peninsula style slip and fall plantation rainforest You CANNOT kill yourself. Poll below.

@simonsarris @skooookum unfollowing

@sdw @skooookum skooks won't even text because I am green bubble

. @simonsarris FaceTime me

@simonsarris @skooookum what

@skooookum in fact I am an android peasant

@simonsarris The notion that relationships aren’t adventures of risk and effort is perhaps one of the worst lies of modern romanticism

you are basically describing Nietzsche's last men, who takes no risks, who optimize life around comfort at the expense of doing anything else you have to learn to proceed under uncertainty

@FonsMans @figma gefeliciteerd Fons - looks really rad

Love seeing my work featured in the “Made in @Figma” campaign in SF!

All around the world, Apple developers do meaningful work that extends beyond great apps and games. They organize events, write tutorials, mentor others, and create spaces to learn and grow. Meet some of these outstanding community builders. #Apple developer.apple.com/community/reco…

@underwoodbrent Nice meeting ya the other day Brent!

Full video: youtu.be/tZmA_VF6cm8?si…

I Found the Real Filming Locations of Iconic Movies Near My Ghost Town

Celebrated my birthday exploring one of my favorite places on Earth, the old frontier lands of the California desert.

@lianaps Welcome (back)!!

Hi friends! First time posting here since the pandemic. Over the past 10 years: left Apple, designed the first Oculus Quest, led product and brand design at Caffeine, then went independent. I run a design studio now called Our Mutual Friend. What did I miss? 🙃

Hovercraft is how I always wanted to share my slides. So I made it. It’s a virtual camera for the Mac. No more disembodied voice. No more “can you see my screen?” Just me, tossing around my windows like it’s 2027.

@benjitaylor Happy birthday!

That’s how old I turn today. 10 years ago, I was on a plane alone to California with no belongings, no money, no degree… hoping to figure things out along the way. Still working on it!

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@braelyn_ai What’s next?

one last thirst trap with my r1 before i sell her

I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and thank you for believing in me to lead the company that has always put you at the center of our work. This is not goodbye. It’s a hello to John and I can’t wait for you to get to know him like I do! 🙏

@johnnie Congrats Johnnie - they’re lucky to have you!

I’ve joined the Google DeepMind design team. I’ve spent my professional career working as a toolmaker, and while I’ve been lucky to have contributed to some incredible products in the past, I may well look back on the work here as the most important when it comes to building tools that are helpful, delightful, and genuinely enriching to people’s lives.

@Jelmar dope.

It's been a challenge but very satisfying to teach myself variable type and working with masters. Steadily getting the hang of it.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@PaulSkallas can't wait

We're probably going to enter a golden age of motorcycle riding when self-driving cars become normalized, and legally mandated in cities and highways.