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Next up for George Santos—press secretary for President Donald J. T****. The press will never know what’s true or not, whether what he says came from T****, or he just made it up. I’m sure that’s the way Teflon Don would want it.

It’s been four months since that social media site was rebranded, yet nearly every article still says, “formerly known as” and the Wikipedia page is titled via the old name and some parts of the page seem to act like it’s still using the old name.

I wish instead of “Missed Call” the iPhone would label a silenced unknown caller as such. “Missed” makes me think I *missed* the call and feel a little guilty instead of thinking, “probably junk, who cares.”

Thoughts and prayers are meaningless without actually also doing the work that is needed.

I’ve only heard two songs by Olivia Rodrigo but she seems really possessive.

What I actually see in my head when an article says that a company has unveiled a product.

Unveiling new product

What I actually see in my head when an article says someone made an announcement.

businessman with a megaphone,promotion marketing concept

The rains we’ve had this week in Houston have been great, but at the same time seeing them give a good soak for so many dead trees and shrubs from this summer’s drought has been a little disappointing. It’s like seeing the rescue arrive after the victim has died. I can only hope* that we continue to get reasonable rain for the rest of fall and winter and not have a summer like that again.

*Hope, but not expect. There’s a lot I could go into about the subject but won’t right now. I’ll just say I try to let go of expectations. I know what I’d like to happen, but I know life can go a different way.

Houston: The Birthplace of Rock and Roll.

(Goree Carter’s Rock Awhile, recorded in 1949.)

I’ve been saying for a while that I thought there was no Apple Car, that it was just the full dash CarPlay integration that Apple showed. However, after seeing the report from Mozilla about the data ALL the car companies are collecting, I sincerely hope I’m wrong and Apple ships a car that respects my privacy.

So far, I am NOT liking the replacing of the Dock with the App Switcher in watchOS 10. I could control the apps and their order in the Dock. I haven’t seen where I can do this with the App Switcher, nor if apps will get replaced as I use others.