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My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months.

Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.

For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.

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It’s my unfortunate duty to inform you that, once again, It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.

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The FDA has approved a nasal flu vaccine that people can administer to themselves at home. (Prescription required, order it online, ages 2-49, available next year.)

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We hear about the freedom and independence a visually impaired man found by running with an AI guide. Also: South Africa's hospital train; an usual diplomatic job share; and the dog whose love of binmen has gone viral.

Presenter: Jackie Leonard. Music composed by Iona Hampson

Did Shohei Ohtani just play the single greatest baseball game ever? “He went 6-for-6, slugged three home runs, drove in 10 runs and swiped two bases — in a game that clinched a postseason berth.”

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Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper, and Asa Fitch, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+): Chip giant Qualcomm made a takeover approach to rival Intel in recent days, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be one of the largest and most consequential...

Carlton Reid, writing for Wired: The use of Apple smartphones as the principal camera system on 28 Years Later was subsequently confirmed to Wired by several people connected with the movie, detailing that the particular model used to shoot was the iPhone 15 Pro Max. [.....

Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep444-sc See below for t...

Austin Mann: Over the past week we’ve traveled over a thousand kilometers across Kenya, capturing more than 10,000 photos and logging over 3TB of ProRes footage with the new iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max cameras. Along the way, we’ve gained valuable insights into t...

Los Angeles Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani entered last night’s game in Miami with 49 stolen bases and 48 home runs for the season. Only five other players in MLB history have ever hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a season. No player had ever achieved a 50-50 season. Ohtan...

What impacted the Earth 66 million years ago at Chicxulub and caused the extinction of 75% of all species of life? A new analysis suggests it was an asteroid from the outer reaches of the solar system.

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Speaking of “Leon” Musk, here’s Victor Tangermann, writing for The Byte: In March, the US government accused the founder of Moscow-based company Social Design Agency of orchestrating a “persistent foreign malign influence campaign” on behalf of the Kremlin. The propagand...

Cards Against Humanity:

We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump’s very stupid wall.

Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire — Elon Musk — snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.

Just look at it! He fucked it.

How did this happen? Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking. After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land’s value. We said, “Go fuck yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll see you in court.”

Link: elonowesyou100dollars.com/

Which Came First? A quiz from Google Arts & Culture in which you guess which historical event took place first.

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The European Commission yesterday: Today, the European Commission has started two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’). [...] Pursuant to Article 8(2) of the DMA, the Commission...

London’s clean air zone was meant to reduce car pollution but also had another effect: more active kids. “Instead of being chauffeured to school by their parents, the students started walking, biking, scootering, or taking public transit.”

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The Toll of America’s Anti-Trans War. “Anti-transgender legislation and rhetoric is reshaping all of our lives, from bodily autonomy to education, privacy and the access and use of public spaces. Are we paying attention?”

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“A previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was probably in his early teens has been uncovered at a library in Germany.” 12 minutes of new Mozart in the 21st century, what a time to be alive.

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The newest season of The Great British Bake Off premieres on Netflix next week (Sept 27). Look at all those fresh faces — I love them already.

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The Breakthrough That Could Unlock Ocean Carbon Removal. “How Equatic solved seawater’s toxic gas problem and delivered a two-for-one solution: removing carbon while producing green hydrogen.”

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