Finally got around to reading Craig Mod’s “rules” for running his membership program. Two that particularly resonated: “The program exists for the goals, not the members” and “Fundamentally, you are building a community”.
ChatGPT 4o Adds Image Generation and It’s Fun as Hell
MG Siegler:
I’m not even talking about Apple and AI here. We’ve done that, a
lot. Probably enough — for now (famous last words). I’m
talking about Apple in general. Watching this OpenAI video — again, not an event, just a product walk-through with various
team members (t...
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry
As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profit
Here’s Terry B’s highlights following Monstertrack 2025 winner Emma Missale on her fixed-gear no-breakes bike through New York. You can also watch the full race, if you have two hours to spare.
The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be...
The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be a college journalism class in careful, ethical handling of sensitive information’, said David Boardman, dean of Temple University’s media school.”
🎬 Don't Torture a Duckling
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Not too much gore here - although the ending is hilariously excessive in that regard. It's more of a murder mystery. And it has indeed quite a lot of great ideas and encourages you to solve it yourself. Good one. But: Catholics again 🙄. And what's up with that slow-motion water in that aquarium?
🎬 Conclave
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A mystery thriller set in the Vatican. And all the gossiping cardinals are no better than ordinary men. Well, apart from the newly elected pope. And then this ending. Catholics 🙄.
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Malthusian Swerve
Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we?In this episode, we partnered with the team at Planet Money to take stock of the essential raw materials that enable us to live as we do here on Earth—everything from sand to copper to oil— and tally up how muc...
Terror Bird
Yours Truly on ‘Geared Up’
You’ll never guess what cohosts Andru Edwards and Jon Rettinger talked to me about on their Geared Up podcast this week. OK, fine, you guessed it. But I bet you didn’t guess that Flash on iPhone came up. Very fun show — I think you’ll enjoy it.
Scaling Laws and the Speed of Animals
A recent paper found that the time it takes for an animal to move the length of its own body is largely independent of mass. This appears to hold from tiny bacteria on up to whales — that’s more than 20 orders of magnitude of mass. The paper’s argument as to why this happe...
Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason...
Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason Stanley, have recently moved from Yale to the University of Toronto. Stanley: “the primary reason was the deteriorating political situation in the United States”.
For his 8th book, What the Dead Can Say, Philip Graham limited...
For his 8th book, What the Dead Can Say, Philip Graham limited it to a print run of 1000 and distribution was entirely through stashing them in Little Free Libraries around the entire country.
Want to build your own synthesizer? The DIY Synths Database is a...
Want to build your own synthesizer? The DIY Synths Database is a “curated collection of 68 DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers and related standalone musical equipment”.
From 2017, Ron Rosenbaum on the newspaper that fought Hitler. “The paper...
From 2017, Ron Rosenbaum on the newspaper that fought Hitler. “The paper went down fighting a lie, fighting Nazi murderers, refusing to normalize the Hitler regime.”
632: The Uncertainty Is Gone
Pre-show: Marco’s BMW sitrep
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Insider: Our Websites
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner
Spatial Gallery has an update!
Volume control (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
Siri delays (via Stephen Klinck)
Gurman on the smart home hub
Apple sued over fals...
You’ll Never Guess Which Recent DF Article Was ‘Flagged’ at Hacker News
“Flagging” isn’t what I was writing about yesterday, with regard to Daring Fireball’s unexplained ghosting at Hacker News in recent years. If you look at the list of recent DF articles at HN, only one is explicitly “flagged”. Whoops, now it’s two, but they’re both the same a...
★ The Website That Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (You’re Reading It)
Back in 2017, the iPhone X was announced alongside the iPhones 8 and 8 Plus in mid-September. The iPhones 8 shipped that month, and I published a review of the iPhones 8 on September 19. The iPhone X, though, wasn’t available to order until October 27, and didn’t start shipp...
Wired surveyed 730 coders and developers about how they use AI chatbots...
Wired surveyed 730 coders and developers about how they use AI chatbots & tools. “Freelance coders seem to like AI more than full-time coders.”
Tavares Strachan
I like these collage-like artworks by Tavares Strachan. One of the figures depicted above in the third piece, just above the queen, is polar explorer Matthew Henson, who was the first person (maybe?) to reach the geographic North Pole in 1909 as part of Robert Peary’s expedition.
Tags: art · Matthew Henson · Robert Peary · Tavares Strachan
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