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The Global Story: The fight for the Arctic

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Donald Trump has repeated his desire to control Greenland as a matter of national security, targeting Russian and Chinese interest in the Arctic. Competition is heating up over shipping routes and stores of natural resources.

The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC World Service. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you got this podcast.

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Google and Microsoft Each Donate $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration Racket

cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html

CNBC: Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try and curry some goodwill with the incoming administration. “Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube...

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‘Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era’

nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU4.1YiC.LBBOij0yKLtb&smid=url-share

Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel, and Kate Conger, reporting for the NYT in the best-sourced piece I’ve seen on Meta’s big policy changes this week (gift link): The entire process was highly unusual. Meta typically alters policies that govern its apps — which include Facebook,...

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‘We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This’

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/mark-zuckerberg-free-expression/681238/

Good piece and great headline by Charlie Warzel at The Atlantic: The social-media hall monitors have been so restrictive on “topics of immigration and gender that they’re out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said with the zeal of an activist. He spoke abou...

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★ Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes

There were several interesting announcements made at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote at CES 2025, including a new RTX 50 generation of gaming GPUs and an upcoming $3,000 Mac-Mini-sized “personal AI supercomputer” called Project Digits. But most interesting to me was the sc...

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Zuckerberg Disses Apple With Joe Rogan: ‘They Haven’t Invented Anything Great in a While’

9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/

Chance Miller listened so we don’t have to: Zuckerberg also took issue with AirPods and the fact that Apple wouldn’t give Meta the same access to the iPhone for its Meta Ray-Ban glasses: They build stuff like AirPods, which are cool, but they’ve just thoroughly hamst...

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James Thomson on the Origins of the MacOS Dock

tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/

James Thomson: So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all k...

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Los Angeles Fires: The Damage in Maps, Video, and Images

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/los-angeles-fires-the-damage-in-maps-video-and-images

Just heartbreaking, and a scale of destruction that’s hard to comprehend.

Link: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/los-angeles-fires-the…

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I paged through this illustrated retrospective of Hayao Miyazaki’s work at the...

I paged through this illustrated retrospective of Hayao Miyazaki’s work at the bookstore a few months ago and it was gorgeous. “The book is artistic biography, aesthetic treatise, creative process explication, and celebration of the filmmaker’s work.”

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Want to Wear a Tiny Apollo Guidance Computer on Your Wrist?

A British company is selling a wristwatch that’s a shrunk-down replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer interface that the Apollo astronauts used to maneuver their spacecraft to the Moon and back. From Gizmodo: The original AGCs were used by astronauts for guidance and nav...

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Did we all know this already? “Chip is a nickname for a...

Did we all know this already? “Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad. Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather. Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.”

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The Art of the Snack Solo. “And now I am into my...

The Art of the Snack Solo. “And now I am into my stride. A fig is plucked. The cornichons emerge. The cheeses multiply. Little packets of oatcakes are opened. Maple syrup is experimentally poured.” (I…do not eat this way. 100% mealer here.)

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Post-Apocalyptic Orbs

While these might look like they are AI-generated, these floating orb-structures created by Masakatsu Sashie are actually oil paintings. You can check out more of his work on Instagram and Facebook. (via colossal) Tags: art · Masakatsu Sashie 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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33 Ways To Improve Your Life, Japanese Style. Including “be happy in...

33 Ways To Improve Your Life, Japanese Style. Including “be happy in your own company”, “find your inner otaku”, “take inspiration — but with respect”, and “be reliable”.

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Jessica Hische & Chris Shiflett are launching a company called Studioworks that...

Jessica Hische & Chris Shiflett are launching a company called Studioworks that makes business management software for creative studios.

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An Ambient 24/7 Streaming Video of Chill Work/Study Vibes

Back in 2016, I wrote about The Most Relaxing Song in the World, an ambient track by Marconi Union called Weightless. Today I learned the band’s record label hosts a 24/7 streaming video of their music on YouTube:

I am adding this to my chill working music rotation immediately, alongside this 10-hour version of Weightless.

(via jodi ettenberg)

Tags: Marconi Union · meditative · music · video

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Smarty Plants

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In an episode we first aired in 2018, we asked the question, do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? To remember? Or even learn? Well, it depends on who you ask. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the s...

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Learning from Finland’s success in combatting homelessness. “It is the result of...

Learning from Finland’s success in combatting homelessness. “It is the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy […] which provides people experiencing homelessness with immediate, independent, permanent housing…”

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Chess Zoo

The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.

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Understanding the Various Inscrutable Beeps, Bops, and Bloops AirPods Make

macrumors.com/2025/01/09/airpods-pro-chime-sound/

Juli Clover, MacRumors: In a support guide, Apple says that the AirPods Pro may play a sound every so often while in the case to ensure the microphones and speakers are working as intended. From Apple: To help ensure that your AirPods microphones and speakers are ope...