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Daring Fireball
22 Jan 23:33 • John Gruber

Why Walmart Still Doesn’t Support Apple Pay

9to5mac.com/2026/01/18/heres-why-walmart-still-doesnt-support-apple-pay/

Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: When you use Walmart Pay, it’s incredibly easy for Walmart to build that customer profile on you. When you use Scan and Go, all of that same information is handed over. When you use Apple Pay or other payment methods, it’s much harder ...

Mars For The Rest of Us
22 Jan 23:07 • Maciej Cegłowski

Welcome to Mars!

(for the rest of us)

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 22:57 • John Gruber

Trump Administration Shares Doctored Photo of Minnesota Activist After Her Arrest

notus.org/trump-white-house/white-house-fake-photo-of-minnesota-activist-nekima-levy-armstrong-arrest

Violet Jira, reporting for NOTUS: The White House communications team posted a digitally altered photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota social justice activist, on Thursday that makes it appear that she was weeping during her arrest by federal agents. The image is ...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 22:57 • John Gruber

The Information: ‘With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI’

theinformation.com/articles/google-deal-apples-craig-federighi-plots-cautious-course-ai

Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley and Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas, and with a miserly gift-link policy): But there are also potential risks to making Federighi head of AI. Giving oversight of AI to him reflects Apple’s cautious approach to the technolog...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 22:27 • John Gruber

The Information Says Apple Is Working on an AI Wearable Pin

theinformation.com/articles/apple-developing-ai-wearable-pin?rc=jfy0lk

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas): Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker, microphones and wireless charging, according to people with direct knowledge ...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 22:27 • John Gruber

Ternus Now Overseeing Design at Apple, Reports Gurman

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/apple-hardware-chief-john-ternus-now-overseeing-design-tim-cook-ceo-succession

Mark Gurman, reporting at Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to include design work, solidifying his status as a leading contender to eventually succeed Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. Cook, who has led Apple since 2011 and turned...

kottke.org
22 Jan 22:15 • Jason Kottke

The Best Films of 2025

David Ehrlich is back with my favorite end-of-year celebration of film; here’s his look back at the best films of 2025 (YouTube). See the full list at Letterboxd. I’ve only seen five of these so it’s difficult to comment on the list as a whole, but I feel like Sinners should have been higher?

Tags: best of · best of 2025 · David Ehrlich · movies · video

kottke.org
22 Jan 22:04 • Jason Kottke

The Best Films of 2025

David Ehrlich is back with my favorite end-of-year celebration of film; here’s his look back at the best films of 2025 (YouTube). See the full list at Letterboxd. I’ve only seen five of these so it’s difficult to comment on the list as a whole, but I feel like Sinners should have been higher?

Tags: best of · best of 2025 · David Ehrlich · movies · video

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kottke.org
22 Jan 21:09 • Jason Kottke

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95....

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.”

kottke.org
22 Jan 21:01 • Jason Kottke

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.”

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Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:54 • John Gruber

Jackass of the Week: Utah State Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore

ksl.com/article/51436458/iphone-vs-android-this-lawmaker-wants-utah-to-officially-weigh-in

Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Daniel Woodruff, reporting for KSL News:

SB138, sponsored by Cullimore, R-Sandy, would make Android, the world’s most popular mobile device operating system, an official state symbol, joining the ranks of the official state cooking pot (the dutch oven), the official state crustacean (the brine shrimp), and the official state mushroom (the porcini).

“Someday, everybody with an iPhone will realize that the technology is better on Android,” Cullimore told reporters during a media availability on Wednesday, the second day of the legislative session.

But, he added, “I’m the only one in my family — all my kids, my wife, they all have iPhones — but I’m holding strong.” [...]

“I don’t expect this to really get out of committee,” he said.

(Via Joe Rossignol.)

Link: ksl.com/article/51436458/iphone-vs-android-this-lawmaker…

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:51 • John Gruber

Taegan Goddard: ‘There’s No Going Back’

politicalwire.com/2026/01/20/trump-changed-the-presidency-and-theres-no-going-back/

Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire, in a post that pairs perfectly with Om Malik’s re: velocity bestowing authority: The new Democratic argument isn’t about restoring guardrails. It’s about moving fast — and using power unapologetically — to undo what Trump has do...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:51 • John Gruber

Om Malik: ‘Velocity Is the New Authority’

om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/

Om Malik: That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has become the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken the rol...

Accidental Tech Podcast
22 Jan 20:21

675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load

02:06:03

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️ Follow-up: We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week! Gruber’s post Top Dogs is coming “Cloud technology”? Google’s blog post Gurman’s post Clipboard hijacking It’s...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:06 • John Gruber

‘Inside Trump’s Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn’

wsj.com/politics/national-security/a-piece-of-ice-for-world-protection-trump-demands-europe-cut-deal-on-greenland-cc1014f6?st=2XDhnR

The Wall Street Journal (gift link; News+ link): When President Trump arrived in the snow-covered Swiss Alps on Wednesday afternoon, European leaders were panicking that his efforts to acquire Greenland would trigger a trans-Atlantic conflagration. By the time the sun se...

kottke.org
22 Jan 20:03 • Jason Kottke

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song...

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles); it’s “a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion”. Miller is also working on a novel about Persephone.

kottke.org
22 Jan 19:55 • Jason Kottke

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline...

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles); it’s “a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion”. Miller is also working on a novel about Persephone.

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kottke.org
22 Jan 18:51 • Jason Kottke

Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight

This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot Matt Melnyk had perhaps the best view in the world of the aurora and captured some fantastic shots. He told space.com that “This was the most incredible display of aurora I’ve ever seen in my 20 years of flying!” Tags: astronomy · flying · Matt Melnyk · photography

kottke.org
22 Jan 18:48 • Jason Kottke

Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight

This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot Matt Melnyk had perhaps the best view in the world of the aurora and captured some fantastic shots. He told space.com that “This was the most incredible display of aurora I’ve ever seen in my 20 years of flying!” Tags: astronomy · flying · Matt Melnyk · photography 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

kottke.org
22 Jan 18:12 • Jason Kottke

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of...

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of his movies & TV shows, including Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and the Poker Face pilot. “Print them, share them, act them out with your friends.”