Arrived in Berlin for IndieWebCamp on the weekend! 🥳
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
I’ve got this queued up to listen to on the Shinkansen later: Lane 8’s Fall 2025 Mixtape. Available on YouTube, Soundcloud, and Apple Music. I’ve added this to my Underscore collection too.
theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_openai_loss/
sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apple-results-holiday-dunks-and-questions-dodged/
apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
joe-steel.com/2025-10-22-Why-GM-Will-Give-You-Gemini-But-Not-CarPlay.html
mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
Tom Ellison, at McSweeney’s:
How are my competitors doing, the ones you all insisted students use instead of me? That’s right, they were supposed to go to the American Journal of Social Sciences, Powered by OpenAI. Or museums, like the Smithsonian’s Charlie Kirk Shrine to American Greatness. I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok.
Link: mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready…
To really understand a concept, you have to "invent" it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.
Tags: francois-chollet, teaching
Proof of life! I’m writing a longer post about my time in Kōyasan, but in the meantime, I made this Insta reel of some of the photos I took there.
theverge.com/news/807686/elon-musk-grokipedia-launch-wikipedia-xai-copied
James Thomson:
I’ve released a small PCalc 4.11.1 update that’s out now for the Mac.
There was a bug with the theme getting reset, which I could have fixed in five minutes, but I ended up doing what I should have done over three decades ago, and added a dedicated section to the settings that puts all the visual customisation in one place.
No more having to search for all this stuff in a submenu somewhere!
After the glum news this week regarding Nisus Writer, it feels good to link to a similarly-aged Mac app that’s still thriving. If you’ve never tried PCalc, you’re missing out.
