doug — off the record

• 105 Times Americans Had The Internet Facepalming | Bored Panda

  When you’re on top, your every decision is bound to be scrutinized, so you have to be able to take the heat. Both from the inside and the outside. Especially if you’re leading the Free World. Setting an example simply comes with the job. But the Facebook group ‘America’s Cultural Decline Into Idiocy’ (ACDII) thinks the country could — and should — do better. Its 277K members share funny yet sobering memes poking fun at politics, culture, and everything else they believe is spiraling out of hand. Here are some of the ones that have received the most attention there. Funny, Memes

• An American posted a photo of people sunbathing in Chicago and the rest of the world responded as one – The Poke

  To Chicago now, where @RealCGriff went viral – wildly viral – with this picture of people sunbathing ‘on the beach’. Living in Chicago is awesome because you can just go chill on the beach whenever you want pic.twitter.com/WUpEGZxznL — Connor Griffin (@RealCGriff) July 12, 2026 It remains to be seen just how entirely serious he […]

• This website is a goldmine if you love Mac menu bar apps – Digital Trends

  MacMenuBar is a curated directory of 1,500+ Mac menu bar apps, neatly sorted into collections like clipboard managers, timers, and window managers. Here's why it's worth a bookmark.

• Turn on Microsoft Edge's scareware blocker before you need it | PCWorld

  Not every Windows PC runs Edge's scareware blocker by default. Here's the hardware cutoff and how to turn it on manually.

• Duck.ai by DuckDuckGo review | TechRadar

• I tested Meta’s new AI image generator against ChatGPT and Nano Banana 2 using the same 5 prompts — and the winner surprised me | TechRadar

• The Bridge and the Booze – What’s Going On?

  So there’s good news, and there’s bad news.

• How to Photograph Sunsets on Your Phone Without Blowing the Sky – PictureCorrect

  Sunsets are one of the most popular things to photograph, but they're also one of the easiest scenes to get wrong. If you've ever taken a sunset photo only to find the sky looks washed out and colorless, your phone likely exposed for the darker foreground instead of the bright sky.

• Microsoft announces major Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes clearer, local results, and removes ads: Huge effort to fix search on Windows is finally happening | Windows Central

• People Who Don’t Know How to Code Make 6 Figures By Cashing In On the $4.7 Billion ‘Vibe Coding’ Boom | Entrepreneur

  The four moves any non-coder can use to launch a one-person business this week.

• Free Mac app WhatCable tells you what each of your USB-C cables can really do

  We’ve talked on a number of occasions about the problem with USB-C cables: namely, they all look alike but can…

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