A list of the 20 best art museums in America, including the...
A list of the 20 best art museums in America, including the Wadsworth Atheneum, MoMA, MFA Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the top dog, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Last of Us Season Two Trailer
Somehow, I missed that the teaser trailer for season two of the excellent The Last of Us premiered almost a month ago. I guess both I and the world have been busy with other things and also keeping tabs on the entire interest and media landscape is just not something that’s possible.
Anyway, I am excited for this season to drop sometime in 2025. The skinny from Wikipedia is:
The second season, based on the 2020 game The Last of Us Part II, follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) five years after the events of the first season, and introduces Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
And that “the season is expected to span seven episodes”.
Tags: HBO · The Last of Us · trailers · TV · video
Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate. He...
Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate. He plans to “delete spending on clean energy, abolish ‘insane’ incentives for Americans to drive electric cars, scrap various environmental rules and unleash a ‘drill, baby, drill’ wave…”
Oxfam analysis: “Investment emissions are the most significant part of a billionaire’s...
Oxfam analysis: “Investment emissions are the most significant part of a billionaire’s carbon footprint”, dwarfing jet & yacht emissions. “40% of the billionaire investments are in highly polluting industries: oil, mining, shipping, and cement.”
Apple Intelligence Is Available Today, With the Release of iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1
apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/
Nice rundown of the first wave of Apple Intelligence features from Apple Newsroom. As I wrote last week, my favorite thus far is the notification summaries. The key is not to think of them as a replacement for actually reading the messages — they just serve the same purpose ...
Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now...
Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now ~9bn in 2054) might impact our climate future — “all else equal, fewer people means less carbon dioxide emissions.”
The Nirvana Concert “Sabotaged” by Kurt Cobain to Spite an Angry Crowd
When Nirvana played a huge stadium show in Buenos Aires in 1992, an all-“female/queer/trans” band called Calamity Jane opened for them. The crowd pelted the band with objects like coins and rocks, forcing them off-stage and infuriating Kurt Cobain. Instead of refusing to pla...
WHAT?! “In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson,...
WHAT?! “In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains.”
Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years. A leading Chopin...
Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years. A leading Chopin scholar: “My jaw dropped I knew I had never seen this before.”
A Recent Seismic Map of the World
From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above. You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in volcanic eruptions. You can also draw a cross section and it will show how deep the quakes occurred along that line.
Tags: earthquakes · geology · infoviz · maps · science · volcanoes
“Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at NYC lookalike contest just as cops...
“Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at NYC lookalike contest just as cops break it up.” Greatest city in the world. “‘One Willy Wonka lookalike who was taken into custody,’ an NYPD rep said.” Lamest police force in the world.
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WorkOS
workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024
My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the 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.
Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display…
★ Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post
Sewell Chan, writing for Columbia Journalism Review on Wednesday, “Los Angeles Times Editorials Editor Resigns After Owner Blocks Presidential Endorsement”:
Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times,
resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner bl...
Joz Teases Mac Announcements Next Week
Greg Joswiak, on X:
Mac (😉) your calendars! We have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning. Stay tuned…
Presumably these will include M4 refreshes of the MacBook Pro lineup (as foretold by those bizarre leaks to Russian YouTubers two weeks ago), iMac, and Mac Mini. And the Mac Mini, reports Mark Gurman, is set to sport an all-new, much-smaller form factor.
Jury Finds Masimo Smartwatches Infringed Apple Patents, Awards Apple Just Enough to Buy One Apple Watch SE
reuters.com/legal/masimo-smartwatches-infringe-apple-patents-us-jury-says-2024-10-25/
Reuters:
Apple convinced a federal jury on Friday that early versions of
health monitoring tech company Masimo’s smartwatches infringe two
of its design patents as part of a broader intellectual property
dispute between the companies. The jury, in Delaware, agreed with
A...
★ Vision Pro Bites Dog
Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here’s Techmeme’s roundup of summaries and regurgitations), “Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro”:
Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed
reality headset si...
New book from John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis, the story of “the...
New book from John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis, the story of “the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis”. (Green is signing 100,000 copies of this!)
🎬 Spectre
That was a well rounded and satisfying Bond. It looked great, the plot made sense, it features the usual cool Bond dialogue, it didn't take itself too seriously, and some spectacular action scenes. Can't ask for more. Good one!
Dua Lipa’s (Proper) Tiny Desk Concert
In 2020, during the dark days of our first pandemic winter, Dua Lipa played NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert remotely from London, which is still the most popular Tiny Desk of all time (130M views). This week, NPR had Lipa ‘round the office for a proper set, with the singer playing...