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• John Gruber

★ Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years

Speaking of iOS 26, here’s Joe Rossignol reporting for MacRumors: Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions. These adoption numbers are based on iPhones and iPads that transact...

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• Jason Kottke

Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a...

Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a call-and-response with the kids of the poem I Am - Somebody.

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• Jason Kottke

The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total...

The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total US holdhold wealth. That figure has roughly doubled in the past 5-6 years. “The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering.”

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• John Gruber

How to Force Restart an iPhone

support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

Apple Support: If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then on, try forcing it to restart. Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When the Apple logo appears, relea...

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• Jason Kottke

Vote Dizzy!

In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate. Some of the more interesting details about his campaign: If elected, he’d rename the White House to the Blues House. Running mate was slated to be Phyllis Diller. “She seems to h...

Global News Podcast

Jesse Jackson dies at 84

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The American civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson, who twice ran for the Democratic nomination for president, has died aged 84. Tributes have been flowing in, with President Trump describing him as a good man and a force of nature. In a statement, Reverend Jackson's family cal...

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• Jason Kottke

Ski Jumping Pairs is my favorite Winter Olympics event....

Ski Jumping Pairs is my favorite Winter Olympics event. (Video by Riichiro Mashima.)

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• Jason Kottke

From designer Beth Mathews, a free “Private...

From designer Beth Mathews, a free “Private Property! No ICE” sign you can print out for your shop or restaurant.

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• Jason Kottke

What movies can you brag about seeing during their...

What movies can you brag about seeing during their original run in the theater? Not big movies, more culty ones. I’ve got Iron Giant, American Movie, Run Lola Run, Hands on a Hardbody, and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. 😂

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Quoting ROUGH DRAFT 8/2/66

This is the story of the United Space Ship Enterprise. Assigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worlds and civilizations. These are its voyages... and its adventures.

— ROUGH DRAFT 8/2/66, before the Star Trek opening narration reached its final form

Tags: screen-writing, science-fiction

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• Jason Kottke

From a draft of the opening narration of Star Trek :...

From a draft of the opening narration of Star Trek: “Assigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worlds…” I’m glad they punched it up.

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First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day First chick of the 2026 breeding season! Kākāpō Yasmine hatched an egg fostered from kākāpō Tīwhiri on Valentine's Day, bringing the total number of kākāpō to 237 – though it won’t be officially added to the popula...

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Quoting Dimitris Papailiopoulos

But the intellectually interesting part for me is something else. I now have something close to a magic box where I throw in a question and a first answer comes back basically for free, in terms of human effort. Before this, the way I'd explore a new idea is to either clums...

Global News Podcast

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump of Epstein 'cover up'

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Hillary Clinton, the former US secretary of state, and her husband, the former president Bill Clinton, have agreed to testify in the congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. She said the government's behaviour indicated it had something to hide. President Trump has r...

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Nano Banana Pro diff to webcomic

Given the threat of cognitive debt brought on by AI-accelerated software development leading to more projects and less deep understanding of how they work and what they actually do, it's interesting to consider artifacts that might be able to help. Nathan Baschez on Twitter:...

The Rewatchables

‘GoldenEye’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

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Half of everything is luck, the other half is The Rewatchables. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit the first James Bond film with Pierce Brosnan in ‘GoldenEye’ also starting Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, and Famke Janssen. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are multi-modal for vision input. The open weight one is a Mixture of Experts model called Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. Interest...

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Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat

I introduced Showboat a week ago - my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have created. I've been finding new ways to use it on a daily basis, and I've just released two new tools to help get the best out of the Sho...

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[Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry

sentry.io/resources/ios-workshop-jan-2026/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=paid-display&utm_campaign=general-fy27q1-evergreen&utm_content=static-ad-mobilerss-trysentry

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to:

  • Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue.
  • Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstruct what happened with a crash.
  • Find what’s behind a performance bottleneck using Tracing.
  • Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

Watch it here.

Link: sentry.io/resources/ios-workshop-jan-2026/?utm_source…

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People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.