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12 Nov 15:35 • Hrishikesh Hirway

Clipse - The Birds Don't Sing

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Clipse was formed in 1994 by two brothers: Gene Thornton Jr, aka Malice, and his younger brother Terrence Thornton, aka Pusha T. From the beginning, they’ve worked with producer Pharrell Williams, originally as part of the acclaimed production duo, The Neptunes. But then, th...

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12 Nov 14:36 • Jason Kottke

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists. “Literary Hub caught up with...

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists. “Literary Hub caught up with the finalists to ask them a bit about their books, their reading habits, and their writing lives.” Some great stuff in here.

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Daring Fireball
12 Nov 00:09 • John Gruber

iPod Socks vs. iPhone Pocket

stuff.tv/news/apple-just-reinvented-ipod-socks-as-an-iphone-fashion-statement-and-you-wont-believe-the-price/

Craig Grannell, writing for Stuff: This collaboration with Issey Miyake was, we’re told, inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth”. The result of all that R&D? A crossbody sock. It’s as if someone raided a warehouse of iPod Socks, stretched them out and fashioned...

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Nov 23:55

Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle

Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle Robert Glaser took my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark and applied an agentic loop to it, seeing if vision models could draw a better pelican if they got the chance to render their SVG to an image and then try again until they were happy with t...

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Nov 23:55

Scaling HNSWs

Scaling HNSWs Salvatore Sanfilippo spent much of this year working on vector sets for Redis , which first shipped in Redis 8 in May. A big part of that work involved implementing HNSW - Hierarchical Navigable Small World - an indexing technique first introduced in this 2016 ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Nov 23:24

Six coding agents at once

I've been upgrading a ton of Datasette plugins recently for compatibility with the Datasette 1.0a20 release from last week - 35 so far. A lot of the work is very repetitive so I've been outsourcing it to Codex CLI. Here's the recipe I've landed on: codex exec --dangerously-b...

Daring Fireball
11 Nov 23:09 • John Gruber

iPhone Pocket

apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/

Apple Newsroom: ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items. [...] Crafted in Japan, iPhone Pocket features a singu...

kottke.org
11 Nov 23:06 • Jason Kottke

A History of Japan

Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan is the most entertaining history of anything I have ever seen.

[This is a vintage post originally from Feb 2016.]

Tags: Bill Wurtz · Japan · timeless posts · video

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11 Nov 21:42 • Jason Kottke

Mattias Krantz bought an octopus from the fish market and taught it...

Mattias Krantz bought an octopus from the fish market and taught it how to play piano.

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Daniel Pietzsch
11 Nov 21:03

Another live gig coming up this Friday at the Helvete Club in Oberhausen. → Tickets ←.

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11 Nov 20:22 • Jason Kottke

The trailer for Train Dreams, a film adaptation of the novella by...

The trailer for Train Dreams, a film adaptation of the novella by Denis Johnson. “In select theaters November 7 and on Netflix November 21.”

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11 Nov 19:15 • Jason Kottke

Jamelle Bouie: “I’m gonna make a case to you that no matter...

Jamelle Bouie: “I’m gonna make a case to you that no matter what you’ve heard about the filibuster, you should want the filibuster to be sent to the ash bin of history.”

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11 Nov 18:18 • Jason Kottke

Jessica Guo: “If there’s something out there that calls to you, I...

Jessica Guo: “If there’s something out there that calls to you, I hope you listen. Give yourself permission to do the thing.” Guo just finished hiking both the the Continental Divide Trail and the Great Divide Trail, solo. 3500+ miles!

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Daring Fireball
11 Nov 18:09 • John Gruber

Patrick George Thinks CarPlay’s Days Are Numbered; I Doubt It

theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/apple-carplay-general-motors/684799/

Patrick George, writing for The Atlantic under the ominous headline “Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can” (News+ link): Some automakers have made a point of proclaiming their allegiance to CarPlay, knowing that’s what buyers want. Toyota’s EVs tell CarPlay how much electri...

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11 Nov 16:51 • Jason Kottke

The Age of Audio, a Documentary on the History of Podcasting

Here’s the trailer for The Age of Audio, a feature-length documentary about the invention and popularization of podcasting, from Adam Curry to Ronald Young Jr.

I ran across this movie via a clip on Instagram that explains how the word “podcast” came to be; here’s the same clip from YouTube:

Every time there’s a new technology, it always has to be named the dumbest thing.

Whoever came up with the name podcasting, like what a dumbass name.

It’s so funny cuz the podcast community gets very heated about these issues.

Whoever invented the word podcast, I’m going to punch him in the throat.

Fonts based on the type generated by the Epson MX-80 dot matrix...

Fonts based on the type generated by the Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer (1980).

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11 Nov 14:48 • Jason Kottke

For a More Creative Brain, Travel. “New sounds, smells, language, tastes, sensations,...

For a More Creative Brain, Travel. “New sounds, smells, language, tastes, sensations, and sights spark different synapses in the brain and may have the potential to revitalize the mind.”

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11 Nov 14:24 • Jason Kottke

“China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months,...

“China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.”

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The Rewatchables
11 Nov 05:00

‘Snake Eyes’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan are the kings of the sewer after rewatching Brian De Palma’s ‘Snake Eyes,’ starring Nic Cage, Gary Sinise, and Carla Gugino. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is brought to you by PayPal. Make the most of your money this holiday. Get 5% cash back when you Pay in 4 all holiday long, visit the PayPal app to save the offer. Expires 12/31. See paypal.com/promoterms. Subject to approval. Learn more at paypal.com/payin4. PayPal, Inc. NMLS #910457 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Daring Fireball
11 Nov 02:18 • John Gruber

★ The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing

I upgrade my iPhones and iPads to new iOS releases, including developer betas, pretty much willy-nilly. I’m more conservative about the Macs I use for work. For example, I rely on audio software from Rogue Amoeba for recording both The Talk Show and Dithering, and there were...