Patrick Weaver

@patrickweaver.net

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Is there a how to make your parent’s iOS 26 phone as familiar as possible guide? I’ve done reduce transparency, reduce motion, increase contrast, safari tabs bottom, but it’s still confusing.

I got curious about what it would be like to be a college student in 2025, so I fed one of my own essays, from 2007 into a language model, asking it for advice. For the irony I chose an essay on Heidegger's "The Way to Language" and "Being-there and Discourse. Language".

Yesterday (at the Y at Crossover/Park Pres.) a W@yℳo cut in front of my car from the center to the L turn lane to turn in front of me. It was so smooth, it was like getting pickpocketed. It was "bad" driving, but lacking any danger. This is the future where AI is rude and there's nothing to do.