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Last night I attended my first 2023 baseball game at Fenway Park. The most noticeable change was the presence of the looming pitch clock behind the batter. First pitch was thrown at 6:10 p.m. and we were out of the game before 9:10 p.m. As a spectator baseball no longer felt quite as drawn out as it used to, I was engaged nearly the entire time.

Bloomberg reports that the union for employees at the Maryland Apple Store want to have employees accept tips on your MacBook or iPhone.

I have been working my way through the show Superstore and was amused to see the episode where the employees were going to lose their jobs to hand scanners given to consumers. Despite warnings from experts that robots will steal jobs, retail remains stubbornly resistant to automation.

I recently have attempted to make a few Reel type posts on Instagram. These have long been popular on the platform and as someone used to using iMovie I am shocked at how painful the apps are to use for this. Many table stakes features from iMovie like splitting clips, audio, and speeding up scenes are absent from these new tools. Meanwhile your audio library from Apple Music or Spotify cannot be used for background music.

• I had a great trip to Island Alpaca for their shearing day.
• Amanda Palmer reflects on her trip to TED.
• Izzy Miller tried replacing his friends with an LLM trained on their group chat history and it was fun.
• Improving the integration between military and private sector medical record systems has made military recruiting harder.
• Play lets you save a queue of videos from steaming services to watch later. Mac only.
• If you are a Disney fan Khan Academy has two courses on storytelling covering Imagineering and Pixar.