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Jason Kottke

I’m in Charge at This Hertz Location, and Buddy, You’re Not Getting...

I’m in Charge at This Hertz Location, and Buddy, You’re Not Getting a Car Today. “Tell me, honestly, when you reserved a rental car through Hertz, you thought… what? That we were going to set aside a special little car just for you? Seriously?”

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Jason Kottke

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

In just a few days (Dec 5), the entirety of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill duology will be released in theaters as one four-hour-long film. Here’s the trailer: Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic—p...

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Introducing Mistral 3

Introducing Mistral 3 Four new models from Mistral today: three in their "Ministral" smaller model series (14B, 8B, and 3B) and a new Mistral Large 3 MoE model with 675B parameters, 41B active. All of the models are vision capable, and they are all released under an Apache 2...

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Jason Kottke

A list of 25 Things to Say to Your Children, including “You...

A list of 25 Things to Say to Your Children, including “You can do hard things. I’ve seen you do them before and you can do them again.”; “I’m proud of you.”; and “It’s so brave to feel your feelings.”

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Jason Kottke

Paul Ford on normalized AI & what happens when bubbles burst. “When...

Paul Ford on normalized AI & what happens when bubbles burst. “When the bubble is big, every idea feels like a billion-dollar idea. I yearn for cheap ideas from strangers.”

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Jason Kottke

David Byrne’s Tiny Desk Concert

There are a few artists where you hear their name and “Tiny Desk” together and you think, well, that’s going to be great. David Byrne is one of those and his performance does not disappoint. Though Byrne and his band do normally spread out across large stages, the set de...

The Rewatchables

‘Rocky II’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan feel like a Kentucky Fried idiot after rewatching their 12th Sylvester Stallone movie on The Rewatchables, ‘Rocky II,’ also starring Carl Weathers and Talia Shire. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document

Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the "Soul overview". Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus' system message on its release date, as one does, I noticed an interest...

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DeepSeek-V3.2

DeepSeek-V3.2 Two new open weight (MIT licensed) models from DeepSeek today: DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, both 690GB, 685B parameters. Here's the PDF tech report. DeepSeek-V3.2 is DeepSeek's new flagship model, now running on chat.deepseek.com. The difference be...

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John Gruber

Gurman Pooh-Poohs Financial Times Report That Tim Cook Is Retiring in First Half of 2026

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Speaking of Apple executive HR news, in his Power On Bloomberg column last weekend, Mark Gurman pooh-poohed the Financial Times’s recent report that Tim Cook was likely to retire early next year (paywalled, alas, but summarized by MacRumors): In October, I wrote that the...

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John Giannandrea Is Out

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Apple Newsroom, “John Giannandrea to Retire From Apple”: Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his position and will serve as an advisor to the company before retiring in the spri...

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Jason Kottke

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. The big end-of-year lists mostly...

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. The big end-of-year lists mostly feature books from big publishers; this list aims to spread the attention to smaller publishers.

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Jason Kottke

Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in...

Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in big reductions in pollution, accidents & injuries, and costs. “Slowly moving is better than waiting at a light any day.”

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John Gruber

★ Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS

Signal Support: Signal Secure Backups can help you safely restore your chats if something unexpected happens to your device (like dropping your phone in a lake). When this optional feature is enabled, your device will automatically back up your message history so you won...

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Mark Gurman: ‘John Giannandrea Is Leaving the Company’

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Mark Gurman, in a tweet just 30 minutes ago: Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is leaving the company. Amar Subramanya from Microsoft is joining to lead AI under Craig Federighi. After the fiasco around Apple Intelligence and the “more personalized Siri” features — which...

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Jason Kottke

Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?

I am not generally a fan of rom-coms so I didn’t think I was going to post Evan Puschak’s newest video, but he’s so good at them. Puschak argues that rom-coms are compelling because they reflect the modern challenge of finding meaning as individuals. In the modern day, w...

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I Was Stabbed in the Back With a Real Knife While Performing...

I Was Stabbed in the Back With a Real Knife While Performing Julius Caesar. “I realised what had happened while acting out my character’s death, and thinking: I have to lie here until the lights go down.”

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I sent out my November sponsor newsletter

I just send out the November edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access a copy here. In the newsletter this month:

  • The best model for code changed hands four times
  • Significant open weight model releases
  • Nano Banana Pro
  • My major coding projects with LLMs this month
  • Prompt injection news for November
  • Pelican on a bicycle variants
  • Two YouTube videos and a podcast
  • Miscellaneous extras
  • Tools I'm using at the moment

Here's a copy of the October newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!

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Jason Kottke

On next-gen GLP-1 drugs. “A mere decade ago, obesity drugs powerful enough...

On next-gen GLP-1 drugs. “A mere decade ago, obesity drugs powerful enough for people to routinely drop double-digit percentages of their body weight were unheard-of. Today, there are two, and they feel ubiquitous.”

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