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• John Gruber

Cancelling Your Amazon Prime Membership to Protest Bezos’s Bootlicking at the Washington Post Is Like Pissing in the Ocean

theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/10/washington-post-bezos-amazon-prime-cancel/680421/

Ellen Cushing, in a well-meaning piece for The Atlantic: NPR, citing internal Post correspondence, reported that “more than 1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four hours after the news broke.” It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why...

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• John Gruber

Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips

apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apples-new-mac-mini-is-more-mighty-more-mini-and-built-for-apple-intelligence/

Apple Newsroom: With M4 Pro, it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales them up to tackle even more demanding workloads. For more convenient connectivity, it features front and back ports, and for the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for faster data transfer sp...

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• Jason Kottke

Hyperlinks, the Open Web, and a Membership Appeal

Ok, look. I know there’s a loooot going on these days, particularly in these United States, but I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported kottke.org over the years with a paying membership. It’s the 8th anniversary of the membership program, and I’ve wr...

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• Jason Kottke

Household Surrealism: Clothesline Animals

Multidisciplinary artist Helga Stentzel cleverly hangs laundry items on clotheslines to make abstract animal shapes. You can find more of her household surrealism on Instagram. (via colossal) Tags: art · Helga Stentzel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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• Jason Kottke

From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You...

From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People. “Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters.” 🎯

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• John Gruber

MacRumors: ‘M1 vs. M3 vs. M4 iMac Buyer’s Guide’

macrumors.com/guide/m1-vs-m3-vs-m4-imac/

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: The 2021 and 2023 iMacs have now been discontinued by Apple and prices at third-party resellers are falling. As such, some customers may be weighing up whether to pick up a 2021 or 2023 iMac instead of the latest model, while some existing iM...

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• Jason Kottke

As a middle-aged man, I would’ve saved loads on therapy if I’d...

As a middle-aged man, I would’ve saved loads on therapy if I’d read Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid. “The social taboo which prevented [boys] from reading fiction marketed at girls was infinitely more powerful than anything censorship achieved.”

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• Jason Kottke

Retro 80s Versions of Tech Company Logos

Kostya Petrenko makes 80s versions of tech/media company logos as if they’ve been screencapped from CRT displays. I think my favorite of his might be the retro OpenAI logo, which you can see in this reel. See also Medieval Versions of Contemporary Corporate Logos. Tags: design · Kostya Petrenko · logos · remix 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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• Jason Kottke

If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers...

If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers this question very well: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

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• Jason Kottke

Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed...

Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed to have died in a fire. “Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party…”

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• Jason Kottke

What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have...

What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.”

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• Jason Kottke

“A Vote for Donald Trump Is a Vote for School Shootings and Measles”

One of the best media endorsements of this election cycle comes from EIC Nilay Patel of The Verge, who absolutely pulls no punches in describing Donald Trump and his by-now very familiar patterns and desires. Trump simply cannot use the tools of democracy to run the country...

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🎬 No Time to Die

Movie poster for “No Time to Die”.
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.

I might have had an overdose of Bond movies. In the end I just wanted this to be over. And I think Bond, too. And so it was definitely time to die, so him and I can finally have our peace again. Look-wise, this was very good (maybe a tad too much CGI), and also had some good scenes. Acting was good, too. But often enough the action was lacking some originality and it was too much everybody-shoots-at-Bond-with-machine-guns-while-he-has-just-a-pistol-and-wins kind of action for my liking. But, maybe I was indeed just over it. Too much eye-rolling sentimental drama again.

“I showed someone your watch today, Q. It blew his mind!” :)

The Rewatchables

‘Halloween 4’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan awaken on Halloween Eve and return to Haddonfield to rewatch 1988's 'Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,' starring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, and Danielle Harris. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• John Gruber

★ In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement

Jay Peters, The Verge, “Apple Put the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port on the Bottom Again”: Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has the charging port on the bottom. While Apple could have used the launch as an opportunity to move the charging port from the u...

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• John Gruber

Jeff Bezos: ‘The Hard Truth: Americans Don’t Trust the News Media’

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in his Washington Post: Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important ...

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• John Gruber

The Washington Post Has Lost Over 200,000 Subscribers (and Counting) After Trump Bootlicker Jeff Bezos Blocked Endorsement of Kamala Harris

npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

David Folkenflik, reporting for NPR: The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement ...

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• John Gruber

Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals

apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-new-imac-supercharged-by-m4-and-apple-intelligence/

Apple Newsroom, in the first of what I expect to be a few days’ worth of M4 Mac updates: The new iMac is available in an array of beautiful new colors, and the 24-inch 4.5K Retina display offers a new nano-texture glass option. iMac features a new 12MP Center Stage camer...

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• Jason Kottke

Chris Ware on Richard Scarry

Well! In the Yale Review, Chris Ware (one of my favorite cartoonists) writes about Richard Scarry (one of my favorite children’s book authors) and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (one of my favorite books). This year is the 50th anniversary of Scarry’s 1974 Cars and T...