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Five Years of Apple Silicon Macs
Jason Snell, writing at Macworld:
In that first event (which you can relive in the YouTube video
below), Apple announced its first wave of M1 Macs: the MacBook
Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. The
Macs themselves all used the same design as their Intel
predecessor...
High Horse: The Black Cowboy
High Horse: The Black Cowboy is a three-part documentary about the culture of Black cowboys & cowgirls and their erasure from the history of the western United States.
From executive producer Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions, the pop culture and historical documentary confronts and reclaims the Wild West while revealing the story of the Black cowboy — a history that has largely been untold. It rides into the forgotten corners of history, shattering myths and celebrating the Black cowboys, farmers, jockeys, musicians, and rodeo champions who built the West — and now takes back their place in the saddle, sitting high atop the horse.
High Horse: The Black Cowboy starts streaming Nov 20th on Peacock.
Tags: High Horse: The Black Cowboy · trailers · TV · USA · video
Quoting Netflix
Netflix asks partners to consider the following guiding principles before leveraging GenAI in any creative workflow:
The outputs do not replicate or substantially recreate identifiable characteristics of unowned or copyrighted material, or infringe any copyright-prot...
‘Under the Radar’ Now Over
Marco Arment and David Smith:
In our final episode, we reflect on how indie app development has changed over the past decade. Thanks for listening, everyone!
I really liked the 30-minute format and the breadth of topics: everything from API details to broader design considerations, stats from their own businesses, and postmortems, plus all the stuff he mentioned.
I’ve never been an indie software developer, but I found the podcast extremely insightful. It’s influenced how I’ve thought about my non-indie software development career, not just as someone delivering bits that indies use, but also as a product person who writes software as a means to an end.
Link: relay.fm/radar/331
Going to Art Galleries Can Improve Wellbeing. “Enjoying original works of art...
Going to Art Galleries Can Improve Wellbeing. “Enjoying original works of art in a gallery can relieve stress, reduce the risk of heart disease and boost your immune system, according to the first study of its kind.”
A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single...
A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.”
Notes on Harold Brodkey’s 1992 essay Notes on American Fascism, which was...
Notes on Harold Brodkey’s 1992 essay Notes on American Fascism, which was dismissed at the time but now seems prescient.
Two Hours of Wellness
A two-hour version of the music played in the Wellness Center in Severance. “Please try to enjoy each listening session equally.” See also Severance: Music To Refine To.
✅ Added to my Underscore collection.
A Journey to Vietnam to Uncover the Origins of Phở. “If you...
A Journey to Vietnam to Uncover the Origins of Phở. “If you want to find the origins, you must go to Nam Ðịnh province and a village called Vân Cù.”
17-Year-Old Biggie Smalls Freestyling
From Freestyle: The Art of the Rhyme, a short clip of a 17-year-old Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G.) freestyle rapping on a street corner in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in 1989.
It’s all there…the talent, the confidence, the skills. Compare with a 17-year-old LL Cool J rapping in a Maine gymnasium in 1985. (via ★interesting)
Update: Biggie was rapping on Bedford Ave between Quincy St and Lexington Ave in Bed-Stuy. Check it out on Google Maps. (thx, debbie)
[This is a vintage post originally from Nov 2013.]
Tags: music · NYC · The Notorious B.I.G. · timeless posts · video
If you’re looking for a typeface with Radio Shack logo vibes, try...
If you’re looking for a typeface with Radio Shack logo vibes, try Megazoid.
Coulou’s vinyl cafe (no. 2). “Even though we’re traveling from jazz to...
Coulou’s vinyl cafe (no. 2). “Even though we’re traveling from jazz to funk to middle eastern and Indonesian 70s disco then hip hop, then folk and even more genres, to me this felt like a cool experience of finding the throughline in music…”
“I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But...
“I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t,” says George Monbiot. “His [recent climate] essay reads like nothing so much as a peace offering to Donald Trump.”
Mux: Video API for Developers
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Trump Wants Commanders’ New D.C. Stadium Named for Him
espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46892115/trump-wants-commanders-stadium-named-him
Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter, reporting for ESPN:
President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name
their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources
with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.
A senior White House source said there have ...
Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition
Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition
beetle_b ran this prompt against a bunch of recent LLMs:
Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle.
This turns out to be a harder challenge than SVG, presumably because there are less examples of POV-Ray in the trai...
The Global Story: The rehabilitation of Syria’s ex-jihadist president
After getting the red-carpet treatment at the UN in New York last week, the former al-Qaeda fighter who now leads Syria is about to hold an election. But is Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, really about to transition the country into democracy? Or does he have other plans? The BBC's senior international correspondent Orla Guerin joins us from Damascus, where she’s been speaking to Syrians about the country’s future.
With Asma Khalid in DC, Tristan Redman in London, and the backing of the BBC’s international newsroom, The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption. For more episodes, just search 'The Global Story' wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. . Producers: Cat Farnsworth and Valerio Esposito Executive producer: James Shield Mix: Travis Evans Senior News Editor: China Collins
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as "a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex". It's currently only available via their Codex CLI tool and VS Code extension, with proper API access "coming soon". I d...
Quoting Kenton Varda
The big advantage of MCP over OpenAPI is that it is very clear about auth. [...]
Maybe an agent could read the docs and write code to auth. But we don't actually want that, because it implies the agent gets access to the API token! We want the agent's harness to handle that...