The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World. The film is showing in select locations around the country and will air on PBS this summer.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead
For The New Yorker, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz go deep profiling Sam Altman under the mince-no-words headline “Sam Altman May Control Our Future — Can He Be Trusted?” 16,000+ words — roughly one-third the length of The Great Gatsby — very specifically investigating Altm...
Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...
Ultimate Online Phreak Box. “This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box.” (With this and a time machine, you could make free phone calls in the 1970s.)
Lightning
A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...
A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT. Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.
An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...
An interview with Ronald Wayne, Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)
Kākāpō parrots
Lenny posted another snippet from our 1 hour 40 minute podcast recording and it's about kākāpō parrots!
Tags: kakapo
Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony
From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony. The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was their first single. From Wikipedia:
“Ceremony” was one of the last Joy Division songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis. According to guitarist Bernard Sumner, the group wrote the song a few weeks before Ian Curtis died “to try and heal him through music” and keep him “involved in the band and involved in music and remind him of what … a great future he had”. Sumner concluded, “Unfortunately, it didn’t work”.
Just three versions of Joy Division performing the song exist, including one on the group’s compilation album Still.
Tags: Joy Division · music · New Order · Radiohead · remix · video
10.04.2026
Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My...
Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher. My brain may be permanently broken by this.
Charlie Puth with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins #piano #yachtrock #shorts
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Ed Bindels’s Apple Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
This new museum in Utrecht (about 30–40 minutes south of Amsterdam) seems just astonishing. The rainbow wall of iMacs alone is incredible.
Link: applemuseum.nl/
ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model
I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you can talk to should be the smartest AI but it really isn't.
If you ask ChatGPT voice mode for its knowledge cutoff date it tells you Apri...
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls his ‘Red Empire’ was made so much easier, and so much more brutal, by the intelligence the Cambridge spies passed to Moscow.”
JD Vance heads to Pakistan for talks with Iran
Islamabad warns that the gap between the negotiating positions of the US and Iran remains wide. Each has accused the other of breaking the terms of the tentative ceasefire agreed this week.
Also: on the first visit by a Taiwanese opposition leader to China in a decade, Chen...
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool.
Diary Comics From the 1940s
This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s, documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II.
I never got to meet my grandma, she passed away young in 1977 but finding her 1940s sketches felt like she was finally introducing herself to me. She was so talented, and as you can see, she had absolutely zero filter (I finally understand where my mother and I get it from).
My favorite part is seeing her personality jump off the page. She goes from joking about Pre-Marital Chaos and Pancake Gravy to the gut-punch of my grandpa getting his deployment orders in ‘44. She wrote “Damn the Army and Hitler!”
(thx, andy)
Tags: comics
Poorly Drawn Lines
• Reza