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Last week, Alessandro Slebir rode one of the largest waves ever surfed, a 100-ft monster at Mavericks.

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Since January 2020, Sophie O’Neill has been keeping an embroidery journal. Each day, she sews an “icon” to represent that day’s events and memories. “I embroider an icon every day,” Sophie says. “So at the end of this year, I’ll have 366 icons.” The 29-year-old has now ...

Mapping Police Violence: “Police killed more people in 2024 than any year in more than a decade.” And: “Black people were 30% of those killed by police in 2024 despite being only 13% of the population.”

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The top 10 videos shared by The Kid Should See This in 2024. Includes how wire photos worked in 1937 and “living in a tree for 3 weeks to film 10 million bats”.

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Yesterday was Public Domain Day and Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has the scoop on what works entered the public domain in the US on January 1, 2025. They include: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms...

Apple TV+ is going to be free this weekend for non-subscribers. You can stream Silo, Severance, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, For All Mankind, etc. to your heart’s content.

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There are metaphors, and then there are metaphors.

Happy New Year. Buckle up.

Link: theverge.com/2025/1/1/24333612/cybertruck-fire-explosion…

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CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!

Well, I really don’t know what happened here. One minute it was the second week of January 2024 and the next minute we’re a scant 12 hours away from 2025 — a ludicrously futuristic date, a sci-fi date. And I didn’t do a media diet post all year! I have no excuse; it just…d...

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple TV+ is set to be available to stream for free from Saturday, January 4 to Sunday, January 5, providing its full catalog with no subscription fee. Following a series of teasers, Apple today confirmed the free weekend on social media, bui...

Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts. Their business took off after The Beatles’ Ed Sullivan appearance and the alloy they use for making cymbals is a closely guarded secret.

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Your typical December photos. (27 photos)

After this pod, it's just babies and memories. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin must be perfect as they rewatch the 2004 classic ‘Friday Night Lights,’ starring Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, and Garrett Hedlund.   Producer: Craig Horlbeck Video Producer: Chia Hao Tat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Speaking of sponsorships, the Q1 schedule is filling up, but I’ve still got this week and next open. If you’ve got a product or service you think would be of interest to DF’s audience of people obsessed with high quality and good design, get in touch.

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James Fallows, in a 2023 piece for The Atlantic, written when Carter entered hospice care:

Jimmy Carter survived to see many of his ambitions realized, including near eradication of the dreaded Guinea worm, which, unglamorous as it sounds, represents an increase in human well-being greater than most leaders have achieved. He survived to see his character, vision, and sincerity recognized, and to know that other ex-presidents will be judged by the standard he has set.

He was an unlucky president, and a lucky man.

We are lucky to have had him. Blessed.

Link: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/jimmy-carter…

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

An upcoming version of the Magic Mouse with voice control for AI would “make sense,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said today, though he claimed that he has heard no rumors about the feature so far.

Alongside the voice-input mouse, it’d make just as much sense to bring back some of that see-through 1998 iMac aesthetic by switching MacBooks to transparent aluminum.

Link: macrumors.com/2024/12/30/gurman-magic-mouse-voice-control/

Curator James Payne’s Great Art Explained channel is one of YouTube’s gems. For his latest video, he takes a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s mural The Last Supper and explains what makes it such an unusual, impressive, and revolutionary work of art. Here’s how the main part of...

Fun and interesting list overall (via Kottke), but #7 caught my attention: Walking speed on the streets of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia has increased 15% since 1979. (“Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.”)...