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Out today: Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo. I’m actually gonna grab this from the local bookstore today while I’m out and about.

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Royal Museums Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. You can also check out some of the shortlist entries and runners-up in each category (Moon, Sun, etc.) Photos above by (from top to bottom): Tom Williams, Peter Ward, Ryan Imperio, and Tom Rae. Tags: astronomy · best of · best of 2024 · photography 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

The International Space Station is scheduled to reach the end of its functional life by 2030 — and will then be destroyed. “After 30 years of dutiful service, our home among the stars will be ripped apart by the atmosphere.”

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt meet each other halfway to rewatch the 1987 sports drama ‘Over The Top’, starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, and David Mendenhall. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Method Financial’s authentication technology allows instant access to a consumer’s full liability portfolio using just personal information and consent, eliminating the need for usernames and passwords.

With just a few lines of code, Method’s APIs enable real-time, read-write, and frictionless access to all consumer liability data with integrated payment rails. Method leverages integrations with over 15,000 financial institutions to stream up-to-date, high-fidelity data from users’ accounts and to facilitate payment to them.

Method has helped 3M consumers connect 24M+ liability accounts at companies like Aven, SoFi, Figure, and Happy Money, saving borrowers millions in interest and providing access to billions of dollars in personalized loans.

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Nilay Patel, writing at The Verge last week: I asked Apple’s VP of camera software engineering Jon McCormack about Google’s view that the Pixel camera now captures “memories” instead of photos, and he told me that Apple has a strong point of view about what a photograph ...

Watch as a Latvian master blacksmith forges a Damascus steel1 knife with 320 layers of steel. Then he uses the finished knife to make a leather holder for it. Pound it flat, fold it over. Pound it flat, fold it over. I love that twist he puts on the steel in the middle of...

How to Decarbonize Your Life. “Trying to zero out your personal carbon footprint…is a fool’s errand. What you can do, however, is maximize the degree to which you’re building a new, post-fossil-fuel world.”

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London’s Design Museum is hosting a big retrospective of Wes Anderson’s work beginning in late 2025.

This exhibition will be the first time museum visitors have the opportunity to delve into the art of his complete filmography, examining his inspirations, homages, and the meticulous craftsmanship that define his work.

Through a curated collection of original props, costumes, and behind-the-scenes insights, including from his personal collection, this exhibition offers an unprecedented look into the world of Wes Anderson, celebrating his enduring influence on contemporary cinema.

Might have to make my way to London for this. (via daniel benneworth–gray)

Tags: design · London Design Museum · movies · museums · Wes Anderson

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Reader survey: “Upon discovering that an item they want to buy is in a locked case, less than one in three shoppers (32%) get a store employee to unlock the case.” There is a 0% chance of me shopping at a store with these locked product cages.

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Gorgeous Lego animation of Caleb Holonko doing a 360 drop on a mountain bike.

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I am such a sucker for a pixel fonts and Departure Mono is no exception.

Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.

Oh and there’s a playable Breakout game at the bottom of the page if you scroll all the way down.

Tags: design · typography

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Mark Wilson, writing at Fast Company:

Now, a full five years later, are we meeting the LoveFrom mascot, Montgomery: a bear, paying homage to San Francisco’s Montgomery Street where LoveFrom is headquartered and will soon open its own store.

Montgomery has just appeared on LoveFrom’s website, where it will sniff and follow your cursor, before slowly navigating over the letters of LoveFrom like rocks in a pond.

A lovely mark and even lovelier animation.

Link: fastcompany.com/91195233/jony-ive-love-from-logo-building…

Exactly Why Are Friendship Breakups So Brutal? “So much about friendship goes unspoken. It’s what makes the good ones, frankly, kind of magical: There’s no formal agreement tying you two together except the fact that you like each other.”

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Tripp Mickle, writing for The New York Times: Mr. Ive and Mr. Altman met for dinner several more times before agreeing to build a product, with LoveFrom leading the design. They have raised money privately, with Mr. Ive and Emerson Collective, Ms. Powell Jobs’s company, ...

Zac Hall, with a public service message at 9to5Mac: For now, the bug is triggered when someone replies to a shared watch face in a thread on Messages in iOS 18. The threaded responses feature allows you to have an inline conversation about a specific message that may hav...

Online street maps and satellite views of China don’t align because the Chinese government mandates the use of a “confidentiality algorithm” that adds random offsets ranging from 50-500 meters to latitudes & longitudes.

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Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake. “The rise of sports gambling has caused a wave of financial and familial misery, one that falls disproportionately on the most economically precarious households.”

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In coastal cities in Iceland, including on the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, it’s common to see people out at night, hunting for baby puffins (called pufflings). Once they’re caught, they’re chucked off of cliffs the next day and fly out to sea: From NPR: Many residents o...