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• Jason Kottke

“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30. I can’t remember if...

“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30. I can’t remember if I was one of the few that saw this in the theater, but I loved this movie on VHS/DVD. Haven’t seen it for, what, 20 years though…

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• Jason Kottke

“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see...

“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen. Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison — the ordinary, unposed figures of other people.”

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• Jason Kottke

Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images

We’ve talked before about how some people can picture things in their heads quite vividly and others can’t at all. The latter group has a condition called aphantasia. As soon as I close my eyes, what I see are not everyday objects, animals, and vehicles, but the dark unde...

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• Jason Kottke

Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to...

Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to teach people what to do IRL situations. “Many people may not have seen an interaction with ICE yet, it’s a way to get folks to know or get used to what that might look like.”

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sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes

I released a new alpha version of sqlite-utils last night - the 128th release of that package since I started building it back in 2018. sqlite-utils is two things in one package: a Python library for conveniently creating and manipulating SQLite databases and a CLI tool for ...

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• Jason Kottke

The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New...

The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New Reality. “We are heading into ‘overshoot’ within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?”

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• Jason Kottke

The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad...

The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better).” The winning entry used a Tinder-like interface to swipe your desired days, months, and years.

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• John Gruber

★ Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired

There have been several new features that have been delayed in the EU while Apple tried to make them compliant with the DMA. iPhone Mirroring debuted over a year ago with iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Sequoia, but still remains unavailable today in the EU. Apple Intelligence was delay...

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"Good engineering management" is a fad

"Good engineering management" is a fad Will Larson argues that the technology industry's idea of what makes a good engineering manager changes over time based on industry realities. ZIRP hypergrowth has been exchanged for a more cautious approach today, and expectations of m...

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• John Gruber

Clerk for iOS

go.clerk.com/QO9JV9f

My thanks to Clerk for sponsoring last week at DF. 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 developers 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.

Link: go.clerk.com/QO9JV9f

Global News Podcast

The Global Story: The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal

27:20
The American lawyer, oil lobbyist and master strategist Don Pearlman is said to have chain-smoked his way through almost every UN climate gathering from the early 1990s until his death in 2005. Some of those who saw Pearlman operate in Kyoto, where the first legally binding...

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Agent design is still hard

Agent design is still hard Armin Ronacher presents a cornucopia of lessons learned from building agents over the past few months. There are several agent abstraction libraries available now (my own LLM library is edging into that territory with its tools feature) but Armin h...

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Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM

Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2 - the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along with those releases. The new Olmo 3 claims to be "the best fully open 32B-scale thinkin...

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• John Gruber

The Talk Show: ‘Lincoln Bio Services’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/11/21/ep-435

For your weekend listening enjoyment: a new episode of America’s favorite 3-star podcast, with special guest Stephen Robles. Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting.

Sponsored by:

  • Uncommon Goods: Out of the ordinary gifts, great for the holidays. Save 15% off your next purchase after following that link.

Link: daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/11/21/ep-435

Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life

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We hear about a rare meeting between a living organ donor and the child whose life was transformed by receiving her kidney. Aly Coyle says she was delighted to see 5-year-old Xavier happy and healthy after the transplant. His parents tracked her down through social media to s...

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Geologic Core Sample

If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.

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• John Gruber

Jmail

jmail.world/

Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a phony Gmail interface that, rather than showing you your email, shows you Jeffrey Epstein’s emails:

You’re logged in as Jeffrey Epstein. We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM.

Brilliant.

Link: jmail.world/

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• John Gruber

Another Limited Edition Accessory From Apple: Hikawa Phone Grip and Stand

apple.com/shop/product/hsbd2zm/a/hikawa-phone-grip-stand-magsafe-compatible

Apple Store: The Hikawa Phone Grip & Stand is a MagSafe compatible adaptive accessory for iPhone designed by Bailey Hikawa to celebrate the 40th anniversary of accessibility at Apple. Designed with direct input from individuals with disabilities affecting muscle stre...

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• John Gruber

‘Grok’s Elon Musk Worship Is Getting Weird’

theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/825675/groks-elon-musk-worship-is-getting-weird

Adi Robertson, The Verge:

As a number of people have pointed out on social media over the past day, Grok’s public-facing chatbot is currently prone to insisting on Musk’s prowess at absolutely anything, no matter how unlikely — or conversely, embarrassing — a given feat is.

Grok claims Musk is fitter than LeBron James, funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, and would likely figure out a way to resurrect himself from the dead faster than Jesus.

But it’s a trustworthy source to author an encyclopedia, sure.

Link: theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/825675/groks-elon…

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We should all be using dependency cooldowns

We should all be using dependency cooldowns William Woodruff gives a name to a sensible strategy for managing dependencies while reducing the chances of a surprise supply chain attack: dependency cooldowns. Supply chain attacks happen when an attacker compromises a widely us...