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• John Gruber

Jim Moylan and the Moylan Arrow

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Ben Cohen, writing last week for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): One rainy day 40 years ago, Moylan was headed to a meeting across Ford’s campus and hopped in a company car. When he saw the fuel tank was nearly empty, he stopped at a gas pump. What happened next is ...

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Brain Balls

41:27
When neuroscientist Madeline Lancaster was a brand new postdoc, she accidentally used an expired protein gel in a lab experiment and noticed something weird. The stem cells she was trying to grow in a dish were self-assembling. The result? Madeline was the first person ever ...

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• John Gruber

The New York Times Profiles John Ternus

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Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Threading the needle between adding new bells and whistles to Apple’s products while watching the bottom line has defined the careful, low-profile style of Mr. Ternus, who joined Apple in 2001. He...

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• John Gruber

Chase to Become New Issuer of Apple Card

apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/chase-to-become-new-issuer-of-apple-card/

Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple and Chase announced that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, with an expected transition in approximately 24 months. Apple Card users can continue to enjoy the award-winning experience of Apple Card, which includes up to 3 percen...

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• John Gruber

Know Your Rights: Filming and Photographing the Police

aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police

The ACLU:

Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is a constitutional right — and that includes police and other government officials carrying out their duties.

However, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs or video in public places and harassing, detaining, and arresting those who fail to comply.

Here’s their advice on what to say and do if you are stopped or detained for taking photographs or video.

Also, as good a time as ever for one of my periodic reminders to remember how to hard-lock your iPhone to temporarily disable Face ID: press and hold the side button and either one of the volume buttons at the same time for a few seconds.

Link: aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming…

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• John Gruber

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/

Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired (News+ link, in case Wired’s paywall blocks you): Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appears to not only...

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• John Gruber

The Gold Trump Phone Still Hasn’t Shipped

theverge.com/news/851151/trump-phone-missed-another-release-date

Maybe “next year” meant “next next year”?

(They’re still accepting $100 deposits for pre-orders.)

Link: theverge.com/news/851151/trump-phone-missed-another-release…

Accidental Tech Podcast

673: Six Impossible Things

02:23:54
Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco LivePhish Goose on Bandcamp Nugs Thank you, ATP Patrons! Follow-up: Cord-cutting Casey on Downstream suppose.tv Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg) The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Se...

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• John Gruber

★ Let’s Call a Murder a Murder

The New York Times has frame-by-frame analysis, from three angles, of the murder of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis yesterday. She was shot to death by a still-unnamed mask-wearing ICE agent Jonathan Ross, with what was obviously no justification. The shooting is, just...

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LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends

I joined a recording of the Oxide and Friends podcast on Tuesday to talk about 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for the tech industry. This is my second appearance on their annual predictions episode, you can see my predictions from January 2025 here. Here's the page for this yea...

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How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI

How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI I picked up a few interesting tidbits from this Wall Street Journal piece on Google's recent hard won success with Gemini. Here's the origin of the name "Nano Banana": Naina Raisinghani, known inside Google for workin...

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• Jason Kottke

Abolish ICE

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🔗 Dan’s Polaroids

danielpietzsch.com/links/dans-polaroids

I created a new website where I share my Polaroid photos.

One instant photo per day.

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• John Gruber

The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible

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This 2021 post from Jason Fried is a good chaser to his “The Big Regression” this week (which I linked to yesterday): Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which ...

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• Jason Kottke

An ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis today. Mayor Jacob Frey...

An ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis today. Mayor Jacob Frey to ICE: “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

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Superstition

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!

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• Jason Kottke

How Did We Map the World Before Satellites?

In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably accurate and comprehensive. This video explains how such a map was made in medieval times. From Open Culture: The upshot is an answer to the very reas...

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• Molly White

The year of technoligarchy

The year of technoligarchy

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

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• Jason Kottke

WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including...

WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including Metropolis, It’s a Wonderful Life, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Charade.

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Quoting Adam Wathan

[...] the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying ...