Chris Adamson
@invalidname.me
I write, stream, and code stuff. I also raise children and sometimes clean things. Working on docs for 🍏. He/Him/His.
Also https://mastodon.social/@invalidname (follow via BridgyFed for BlueSky: @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
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Chris Adamson
@invalidname.me
· Oct 19
Reintro:
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Guess I’d better plan on saving myself.
Guess I’d better plan on saving myself.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Guess I’d better plan on saving myself.
Guess I’d better plan on saving myself.
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I spent a little over an hour this morning filing my claim for Anthropic ripping off the books I've authored or co-authored for their AI training. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I spent a little over an hour this morning filing my claim for Anthropic ripping off the books I've authored or co-authored for their AI training. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form
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you know what I loved about growing up in the 80s? While we did get a lot of sequels, they were largely spawned from new works on a regular basis.
there is no future anymore, just an ever-repeating present
Next ‘Rush Hour’ Sequel From Brett Ratner Is Getting Distributed By Paramount deadline.com/2025/11/rush...
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
you know what I loved about growing up in the 80s? While we did get a lot of sequels, they were largely spawned from new works on a regular basis.
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Need something to watch this week? In this keynote I discuss:
1. The thinking behind passkeys; _why_ my team at Apple worked with others to evolve FIDO authentication
2. Using passkeys to replace passwords + traditional 2FA
3. Passkey data export/interoperability (putting "vendor lock-in" to rest)
1. The thinking behind passkeys; _why_ my team at Apple worked with others to evolve FIDO authentication
2. Using passkeys to replace passwords + traditional 2FA
3. Passkey data export/interoperability (putting "vendor lock-in" to rest)
📹 [Video] Watch this #Authenticate2025 Keynote “Get the Most out of Passkeys” with @rmondello.com, Apple
→ youtu.be/otObbUSxcqs
#passkeys
→ youtu.be/otObbUSxcqs
#passkeys
Authenticate 2025 Keynote | Ricky Mondello, Apple | Get the Most Out of Passkeys
YouTube video by FIDO Alliance
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Need something to watch this week? In this keynote I discuss:
1. The thinking behind passkeys; _why_ my team at Apple worked with others to evolve FIDO authentication
2. Using passkeys to replace passwords + traditional 2FA
3. Passkey data export/interoperability (putting "vendor lock-in" to rest)
1. The thinking behind passkeys; _why_ my team at Apple worked with others to evolve FIDO authentication
2. Using passkeys to replace passwords + traditional 2FA
3. Passkey data export/interoperability (putting "vendor lock-in" to rest)
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what was it that you did here exactly?
A DOGE Exit Interview
It’s the agency’s turn to send a pointless, time-consuming email explaining its accomplishments.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
what was it that you did here exactly?
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There's so much I love about this speech and I hope you read the full text when you can - it's worth it.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
There's so much I love about this speech and I hope you read the full text when you can - it's worth it.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
I’m old enough to have heard the urban legend of, but not actually seen, the billboard that read “Cattleman’s: The Shortest Skirts on I-5”.
(I know, two different things. But the name was close.)
(I know, two different things. But the name was close.)
can’t wait to see the rest of you at the Kettleman City In-n-Out!
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I’m old enough to have heard the urban legend of, but not actually seen, the billboard that read “Cattleman’s: The Shortest Skirts on I-5”.
(I know, two different things. But the name was close.)
(I know, two different things. But the name was close.)
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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (PS4/Switch) is $17.73/$21.28 US Dollars at VGP buff.ly/PnPcyvw
$14.99 US PSN buff.ly/i4lPHBQ
$14.99 US PSN buff.ly/i4lPHBQ
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (PS4/Switch) is $17.73/$21.28 US Dollars at VGP buff.ly/PnPcyvw
$14.99 US PSN buff.ly/i4lPHBQ
$14.99 US PSN buff.ly/i4lPHBQ
Carpet cleaning day. Here are the before and afters. Did it work?
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Carpet cleaning day. Here are the before and afters. Did it work?
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will never get old
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
will never get old
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I see the book pirating discourse is going around again, and I’m just so tired, y’all.
If you want books to continue to exist, do not steal books. Period. The end.
“But but but…”
No.
There are so many free options out there: fanfiction, libraries, etc. You don’t need to steal books to read.
If you want books to continue to exist, do not steal books. Period. The end.
“But but but…”
No.
There are so many free options out there: fanfiction, libraries, etc. You don’t need to steal books to read.
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I see the book pirating discourse is going around again, and I’m just so tired, y’all.
If you want books to continue to exist, do not steal books. Period. The end.
“But but but…”
No.
There are so many free options out there: fanfiction, libraries, etc. You don’t need to steal books to read.
If you want books to continue to exist, do not steal books. Period. The end.
“But but but…”
No.
There are so many free options out there: fanfiction, libraries, etc. You don’t need to steal books to read.
Periodic reminder that everyone who voted for Trump is a piece of shit and should never be forgiven for what they’ve done to us and our country.
The Pentagon says it is investigating Sen. Mark Kelly and threatens potential court martial in wake of illegal orders video.
https://cnn.it/4oiTK4y
https://cnn.it/4oiTK4y
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Periodic reminder that everyone who voted for Trump is a piece of shit and should never be forgiven for what they’ve done to us and our country.
The review itself gives you a pretty thorough idea of what we’re up against.
“The best researched and most comprehensive account of the New Right that has appeared—or is likely to.”
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
From William Galston’s reflections on @lkatfield.bsky.social’s superb new book.
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The review itself gives you a pretty thorough idea of what we’re up against.
In the Atarisoft version of “Shamus” for the TI-99 4/A, you can angle a shot such that it goes out a door and hits the score display. Unfortunately, this crashes the game, and there was no way to apply patches to physical cartridges in 1983.
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In the Atarisoft version of “Shamus” for the TI-99 4/A, you can angle a shot such that it goes out a door and hits the score display. Unfortunately, this crashes the game, and there was no way to apply patches to physical cartridges in 1983.
Charlie Brown, you’ve lost another submarine?
I see dead people, Charlie Brown.
Once again, we see that there is nothing you possess which I cannot take away, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Charlie Brown, you’ve lost another submarine?
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a good use of 10+ minutes music.apple.com/us/album/mar...
Marquee Moon by Television on Apple Music
Song · 1977 · Duration 10:45
music.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
a good use of 10+ minutes music.apple.com/us/album/mar...
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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This is a really good piece (albeit quite long), and a reminder to me, an atheist, to not assume all Christians are bad people. Just the “Jesus would hate whoever I hate” strain of evangelicals.
Problem is, that group has completely taken over.
Problem is, that group has completely taken over.
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is a really good piece (albeit quite long), and a reminder to me, an atheist, to not assume all Christians are bad people. Just the “Jesus would hate whoever I hate” strain of evangelicals.
Problem is, that group has completely taken over.
Problem is, that group has completely taken over.
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USC signed the fancy coach and blew up the Pac 12 and they still suck.
I’d be laughing but they ruined west coast college football. 😞
I’d be laughing but they ruined west coast college football. 😞
Column: USC went in for 10 years and $110 million on Lincoln Riley, thinking it was getting its next McKay, Robinson or Carroll. Four years in, he’s an extension of Clay Helton. bit.ly/3XMaJkS
USC’s $110 Million Gamble on Lincoln Riley Trending Toward a Disappointing Clay Helton 2.0
Four years in, the Trojans are still losing big games, struggling on the road and falling short of championship expectations.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
USC signed the fancy coach and blew up the Pac 12 and they still suck.
I’d be laughing but they ruined west coast college football. 😞
I’d be laughing but they ruined west coast college football. 😞
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November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I have literally felt myself getting dumber over the last five years, and I hate it.
apple.news/ACA7sxm3HT-i...
apple.news/ACA7sxm3HT-i...
A Theory of Dumb — New York Magazine
What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
apple.news
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I have literally felt myself getting dumber over the last five years, and I hate it.
apple.news/ACA7sxm3HT-i...
apple.news/ACA7sxm3HT-i...
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AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
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Rewatching some of Capra's Why We Fight docs, so I can touch on them briefly in the book, and it's striking how deeply they commit to the idea of America's strength coming from its place as a pluralist society where many diverse kinds of people come together to accomplish great things.
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Rewatching some of Capra's Why We Fight docs, so I can touch on them briefly in the book, and it's striking how deeply they commit to the idea of America's strength coming from its place as a pluralist society where many diverse kinds of people come together to accomplish great things.