Apple:
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 first
quarter ended December 28, 2024. The Company posted quarterly
revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year, and
quarterly diluted earnings per share of $2.40, up 10 percent year
over year....
Joy Machine is a new art gallery in Chicago from the team behind Colossal. “We believe that joy expands our ability to move and be moved and is an essential antidote to despair.”
I did not think I was going to watch this whole video when I started but I totally did. Some absolutely incredible shots & rallies in here. (thx, dunstan)
From an interview with Na Kim, her answer here could not be more personally resonant with me. “OWEN: Would you say you’re a disciplined person? KIM: I didn’t think I was, but I must be.”
Netflix is making a Little House on the Prairie reboot. “The series will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.” A manifest destiny series for 2025 seems about right…
A Monday report from Reuters, syndicated at The Guardian, “Microsoft Is in Talks to Acquire TikTok, Trump Claims”:
Donald Trump has suggested that Microsoft is in talks to acquire
TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app.
When asked if Microsoft wa...
🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
Lenovo Legion Go S
R...
The Public Domain Review (a true gem of the web) has launched The Public Domain Image Archive, “a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”.
While The Public Domain Review primarily takes the form of an “...
“A Dyson tree is a hypothetical genetically engineered plant (perhaps resembling a tree) capable of growing inside a comet. Plants may be able to produce a breathable atmosphere within the hollow spaces of the comet.”
In deciding the Oscar Best Picture winners from 1927-2023, let’s say you relied on the contemporary ratings of films on Letterboxd instead of the Academy vote totals of the time. Sometimes, you’d get the same answers but rarely. You’d get lots more foreign films from direc...
Reuters made a cozy game about cozy games. “Wolfe would put on cozy game music as she worked on the cozy game about cozy games, and she could feel her own stress and anxiety ebb away.”
Lorne Michaels may not like it when the actors on SNL break character to crack up at each other, but, to me, it’s the best part of the show. Here’s the NYT with a look at the phenomenon.
Fascinating thread — and an almost entirely civil discussion of what has become, for obvious reasons, an inflammatory topic. These are mapping and metadata nerds approaching the dilemma in the very nerdiest of ways. I found it rather soothing, and also quite informative — pa...
Artist and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has died at the age of 85. From Hyperallergic’s obituary:
As part of a generation of Indigenous artists who tirelessly worked to “break the ‘buckskin ceiling’” in the art world, Smith (an enrolled Salish member of the Confeder...
David Pierce, writing at The Verge, “The Pebble Smartwatch Is Making a Comeback”:
Rather than buy another smartwatch, Migicovsky decided to try and
get Pebble going again. He sold his most recent startup, a
messaging app called Beeper, to Automattic last year and
left th...
