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🇹🇹⇾🇺🇸 Retired technology problem solver. Sharing a curated collection of eclectic ephemera at jagsworkshop.com. Advocate for Black, female and other under-estimated people in tech. I worked at Apple for a bit. 🎶 Immigrants: We get the job done.
Sterck determines that the U.S. has a worse “average poverty” than other “high income” countries, taking longer to get to $1 in income (“earnings from work, government benefits and other sources of money […] averaged among all family members”):
* U.S. 63m
* U.K. 34m
* France < 31m
* Germany ~ 26m
Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/measuring-poverty-on-a-spectrum/
(I’ve often found myself yelling at these transgressors, Walter Mitty-style and with Jules Winfield rage, “headphones, motherfucker, have you heard of them?” In my lucid moments I contemplate carrying a large collection of headphones and wordlessly handing them out to these offenders.)
Huzzah. Can this now be applied to every airline, airport, restaurant, warehouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse?
United Airlines: Wear Headphones or Get Booted
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/united-airlines-headphones/
Noem forgot the number one rule of the Trump “Family”: the Boss knows nothing about nothing.
(She should count herself lucky she was fired; if this were Russia she might have fallen out a fifth floor window.)
Trump Fires Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/trump-fires-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem/
I’ve never watched a single second of an F1 race, but seeing as I already pay for Apple TV, and I’m always looking for an excuse to charge my Vision Pro, that’ll probably change this weekend.
2026 Formula 1 Season Starts This Weekend, Available on Apple TV in the U.S.
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/2026-formula-1-season-starts/
This is the upgrade that most tempts me. I’m writing this on a 13" M2 MacBook Air, bought refurb'd two years ago as a travel computer,and which has since become my daily driver. It remains a highly capable machine and deserves to continue its productive life—in the hands of my wife after I upgrade.
The original Studio Display is a (mostly) great monitor (I love mine). This update—which is mainly about Thunderbolt 5 and improved microphones and speakers—is underwhelming. The Studio XDR fares a bit better, but a true replacement for the 32-inch Pro Display XDR would have been quite welcome.
My 14" MacBook Pro—bought on my next-to-last day at Apple to edit videos for a yet-to-materialize YouTube channel—is a workhorse. It barely breaks a sweat for the (admittedly limited) workflow I throw at it. I’m guessing it has at least five more years of life in it, thank goodness. And, alas.
(Plus, “efficiency” has a faint whiff of compromise: images of brawny chips forcibly constrained and compelled to sip power come to mind.)
How I interpret what Apple is saying: Our previously “high-performance, high power” cores are now so power-efficient, we can make them the “low power” cores, and introduce a new, even higher-performance core above it.
The M3 and M4 iPads Air sport an 8-core CPU, however, the M3 splits its cores evenly between performance and efficiency. The M4 gives up a perf. core in exchange for an efficiency core: 3 perf., 5 efficiency. I wonder if the trade-off was cost, battery, heat, or yield, and how a 4/4 M4 would perform
In all of the ways that matter, the iPhone 17e significantly improves on last year’s iPhone 16e, and adopts several features of its older iPhone 17 sibling, but the most welcome addition is the return of MagSafe, which inexplicably went missing from iPhone 16e.
Apple Introduces New M4-Powered iPad Air
jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/new-...
Apple Introduces iPhone 17e
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/
Apple Introduces M5 Pro and M5 Max
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/apple-introduces-m5-pro-and-m5-max/
Apple introduces MacBook Pro Powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-m5-pro-m5-max/
Apple Introduces the New MacBook Air With M5
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/apple-introduces-new-macbook-air-with-m5/
Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and New Studio Display XDR
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/apple-announces-studio-display-studio-display-xdr/
The MacBook “for the rest of us”? Apple went and did it. They built the seemingly impossible: a sub-$600 laptop which—despite its limitations and compromises—is a perfectly calibrated, entry-level computer that’s worthy of being called “MacBook.”
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo, Starting at $599 and Powered by A18 Pro
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-neo/
Maia Mindel writes a discursive, copiously linked, genuinely helpful 11,000-word primer on AI, asset bubbles, and the anticipated economic impact of the artificial intelligence industry. It’s very much worth the read.
Maia Mindel on the Economics of the AI Industry
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/maia-mindel-economics-of-ai-industry/
I believe Sabrina Shukri was the first friend I made at Apple when I joined in 2001. Her elder son, Kai, is autistic, and she, Kai’s younger brother Remy, and their friends are fundraising for Giant Steps, Kai’s school, by climbing the 1,240 steps of the Rialto in Melbourne.
⚙ Up the Rialto: 1,240 Steps to Raise Money for Autistic Children
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/03/1240-steps-for-autistic-children/
The order says police ‘have a duty to intervene when force is used by federal agents that “could cause death or serious bodily injury”’.
An American mayor needing to protect American residents from the atrocities of the American government. Our country is immeasurably broken.
Denver Mayor Orders Police to Protect City Residents From ICE
https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/02/denver-police-protect-from-ice/