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• John Gruber

Apple Launches ‘Convince Your Parents to Get You a Mac’ Short Film on YouTube, Then Pulls It a Day Later Without Explanation

macrumors.com/2025/06/21/apple-pulls-the-parent-presentation-video/

Joe Rossignol at MacRumors: Apple has marked its day-old The Parent Presentation video on YouTube as private, meaning that it is no longer available to watch. Apple has also moved The Parent Presentation to the bottom of its College Students page, effectively burying it....

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• John Gruber

Tom Nichols and Timothy Snyder on the US Bombing of Iran

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/united-states-bombed-iran-now-what/683276/?gift=aQyUJR7AIw1mJWdQ6Ed6yNCTkBMqRx-4Y00eGRut7XI

Tom Nichols, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His supporters will tie themselves in knots (as Vice President J. D. Vance did last week) trying to ja...

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• John Gruber

MacOS 26 Tahoe Beta Drops FireWire Support

macrumors.com/2025/06/19/macos-tahoe-beta-drops-firewire-support/

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors: A bit of sad news for old iPods: Macs might be losing FireWire support. The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Redd...

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Quoting Kent Beck

So you you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said "90% of my skills just went to zero dollars and 10% of my skills just went up 1000x". And this is exactly what I'm talking about - having a vision, being able to set milestones towards that vision, keeping track of a design to maintain or control the levels of complexity as you go forward. Those are hugely leveraged skills now compared to knowing where to put the amperands and the stars and the brackets in Rust.

— Kent Beck, interview with Gergely Orosz

Tags: gergely-orosz, ai-assisted-programming, ai, careers

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• Jason Kottke

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a...

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a chance…to condemn his criminality, to prevent his lawlessness, to denounce his bigotry — and you flat-out refused. More than that, you celebrated it. That’s not something I can quietly abide.”

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Yesterday, me and Florian participated in a photo walk, organised by the new Fujifilm X-Den space here in Düsseldorf. One could try out their (newest) camera gear, and so I had took the chance to try the X half. Had a great time walking around the Altstadt, taking photos, and chatting with Florian, Lou and the friendly Fuji staff. → Florian’s post.

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My First Open Source AI Generated Library

My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines of code for the parser It wrote ~1000 lines of tests ...

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Edit is now open source

Edit is now open source Microsoft released a new text editor! Edit is a terminal editor - similar to Vim or nano - that's designed to ship with Windows 11 but is open source, written in Rust and supported across other platforms as well. Edit is a small, lightweight text edi...

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model.yaml

model.yaml From their GitHub repo it looks like this effort quietly launched a couple of months ago, driven by the LM Studio team. Their goal is to specify an "open standard for defining crossplatform, composable AI models". A model can be defined using a YAML file that look...

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• Jason Kottke

Happening all day today: a Reading Rainbow marathon on PBS Retro. PBS...

Happening all day today: a Reading Rainbow marathon on PBS Retro. PBS Retro is available on Plex, Roku, and Prime Video.

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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Sending my mother's ashes around the world

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The woman fulfilling her mother's dreams of travel by launching her ashes out to sea in a bottle. It's brought her happiness amid her grief. Also: Thailand's tigers bounce back; and making hospitals happier for children.

Presenter: Nick Miles. Music composed by Iona Hampson

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Quoting FAQ for Your Brain on ChatGPT

Is it safe to say that LLMs are, in essence, making us "dumber"?

No! Please do not use the words like “stupid”, “dumb”, “brain rot”, "harm", "damage", and so on. It does a huge disservice to this work, as we did not use this vocabulary in the paper, especially if you are a journalist reporting on it.

— FAQ for Your Brain on ChatGPT, a paper that has attracted a lot of low quality coverage

Tags: ai-ethics, llms, ai, generative-ai

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AbsenceBench: Language Models Can't Tell What's Missing

AbsenceBench: Language Models Can't Tell What's Missing Here's another interesting result to file under the "jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle in a ...

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Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model

Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model Fun new "live music model" release from Google DeepMind: Today, we’re happy to share a research preview of Magenta RealTime (Magenta RT), an open-weights live music model that allows you to interactively create, control and...

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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (...

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🎧 Lifeless Birth – Necrot

Just so much great riffing going on in this collection of fantastic songs. They have enough non-4/4-parts and tempo changes to make it interesting without making it hard to follow. There are some tasty guitar solos, too. “Drill the Skull” is my favourite, with this insanely awesome middle section.

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• Jason Kottke

For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order...

For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order printing of any single comics frame of your choosing, from my newsletter.”

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• Jason Kottke

Play Along With This Gestural Verbing Interactive Video

I love this interactive video at Design Ah! Exhibition Neo at Tokyo Node. The display introduces the audience to a series of simple hand gestures, followed by some outcomes of their performance, e.g. a squeezing motion leading to soapy spray on a window or toothpaste on a ...

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Mistral-Small 3.2

Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren't any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I'm sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my favorite local models. I've been running Small 3.1 v...

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python-importtime-graph

python-importtime-graph I was exploring why a Python tool was taking over a second to start running and I learned about the python -X importtime feature, documented here. Adding that option causes Python to spit out a text tree showing the time spent importing every module. ...