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How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani. “Zohran has...

How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani. “Zohran has been marinated in love, not just from us, his parents, but from intergenerational family life. He’s so secure in knowing who he is.”

Daring Fireball
17 Nov 22:45 • Daring Fireball Department of Commerce

[Sponsor] Clerk for iOS

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Clerk makes authentication for iOS apps effortless — just drop in pre-built SwiftUI components for sign-in, MFA, and profile management. Fully customizable, always in sync with Apple’s design system, and packed with features devs love: social sign-in, user roles, and organization management. Launch faster, stay secure, and scale confidently, whether you’re building the next big thing or a startup MVP. See how Clerk makes complete user management easy for modern iOS teams.

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Daring Fireball
17 Nov 21:45 • John Gruber

OpenAI: Piloting Group Chats in ChatGPT

openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt/

OpenAI: To start a group chat tap the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When you add someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of your conversation as a new group chat so your original conversation stays separate. You can invite o...

Daring Fireball
17 Nov 21:45 • John Gruber

Google Announces Private AI Compute

blog.google/technology/ai/google-private-ai-compute/

Jay Yagnik, VP of AI innovation and research, on Google’s The Keyword blog: Private AI Compute is built on a multi-layered system that is designed from the ground up around core security and privacy principles: One integrated Google tech stack: Private AI Compute runs...

kottke.org
17 Nov 21:33 • Jason Kottke

Stress Is an Ancient Superpower That Is Slowly Killing You

Stress in pre-modern times was a “biological superpower” that helped humans hunt for food and survive in harsh environments and situations. But our bodies can’t easily tell the difference between the stress of encountering a lion in the jungle and a worrying email from you...

kottke.org
17 Nov 20:27 • Jason Kottke

How to Photograph an Active Volcano Without Getting Vaporized. “It’s dangerous and...

How to Photograph an Active Volcano Without Getting Vaporized. “It’s dangerous and completely mesmerizing. Everyone edges closer even though your brain’s screaming don’t. It’s pure moth-to-flame energy.”

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kottke.org
17 Nov 19:48 • Jason Kottke

Climate Change in America: Is It Too Late to Wake Up?

From Vann R. Newkirk II, a editor & journalist who hosts the Floodlines podcast (about Hurricane Katrina), a long piece about the climate chaos that’s taking hold in the US: What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century. Over the next 30 years or so, the changes...

kottke.org
17 Nov 19:03 • Jason Kottke

Clint Smith recently talked to students around the country about the “complexities...

Clint Smith recently talked to students around the country about the “complexities and contradictions” of US history (including slavery) and found they were receptive to it. “Doesn’t seem that hard. Just say both things.”

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Lex Fridman Podcast
17 Nov 18:55

#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy

David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep485-sc See below for timestamps, tr...

kottke.org
17 Nov 18:33 • Jason Kottke

Kevin Kelly shares some essential apps & services for independent travel in...

Kevin Kelly shares some essential apps & services for independent travel in China. “A good rule of thumb is to download your apps outside of China before you leave, because most are behind their great firewall.”

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kottke.org
17 Nov 17:24 • Jason Kottke

All the Cats, Explained

From MinuteEarth, a quick tour of all the different kinds of cats in the world, extinct, wild, and domesticated, and how they are related to each other. Some interesting facts I learned: The saber-toothed tiger was the largest cat to ever live and researchers now believe...

kottke.org
17 Nov 16:33 • Jason Kottke

They’re making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie?...

They’re making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie?

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kottke.org
17 Nov 16:03 • Jason Kottke

The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after...

The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after workers placed the first part of a cross at the top of its central tower. The Barcelona church will top 564 feet when the rest of the cross is placed in the next few months.

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kottke.org
17 Nov 15:18 • Jason Kottke

A digital atlas of the Roman Empire’s entire road network (180,000+ miles)....

A digital atlas of the Roman Empire’s entire road network (180,000+ miles). “The data creation is a collaborative ongoing project edited by a scholarly community.”

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kottke.org
17 Nov 14:21 • Jason Kottke

Skydiving the Sun

Skydiver & musician Gabriel Brown and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy teamed up to capture these incredible photos of Brown transiting the Sun while skydiving. You can see a video of the jump and some behind the scenes calculations on Instagram. We had to find th...

Daring Fireball
17 Nov 02:15 • John Gruber

WorkOS

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My thanks to WorkOS for their continuing support of DF with another sponsorship week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides a complete user management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. The APIs are modular and ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
16 Nov 19:03

Quoting Andrej Karpathy

With AI now, we are able to write new programs that we could never hope to write by hand before. We do it by specifying objectives (e.g. classification accuracy, reward functions), and we search the program space via gradient descent to find neural networks that work well a...

Global News Podcast
16 Nov 14:00

The Global Story; The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia

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Donald Trump has spent this year trying to negotiate a deal to end the war in Ukraine. So far, Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem interested in the US’s proposals. One man who has successfully negotiated with Russia – and with many of America’s adversaries – is Roger Carstens, form...

Daring Fireball
16 Nov 04:00 • John Gruber

Financial Times: ‘Apple Intensifies Succession Planning for CEO Tim Cook’

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The Financial Times, under a four-person byline (“Tim Bradshaw, Stephen Morris, and Michael Acton in San Francisco, and Daniel Thomas in London”): Apple is stepping up its succession planning efforts, as it prepares for Tim Cook to step down as chief executive as soon as...

Daring Fireball
16 Nov 01:24 • John Gruber

★ Meta Replaced the Native Windows WhatsApp App With a Shitty Web App

Mayank Parmar, writing for Windows Latest: WhatsApp on Windows 11 has just got a “major” upgrade, and you’re probably going to hate it because it simply loads web.whatsapp.com in a WebView2 container. This means WhatsApp on Windows 11 is cooked, and it’s back to being ab...