"For $100, I bought bric-a-brac that explains a nation."
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
The Brexit Catch
"Britain's fishermen became the folk heroes of Brexit. In Brixham, they were promised a brighter future. Did it ever arrive?"
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
SpaceX, Newly Public, to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in SpaceX Funny-Money Stock
CNBC, two days ago:
In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized
revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also
ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The
$60 billion in class A common stock that SpaceX has agreed to ...
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a...
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a billion dollars against a backdrop “where a growing number of billionaires are lashing out against philanthropy”.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Sour Soda Studio Depicts a Saccharine World Where Humans Have Lost Control
The illustrator takes a playful and slightly unsettling view of some of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Sour Soda Studio Depicts a Saccharine World Where Humans Have Lost Control appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Tim Cook, in Interview With WSJ: ‘Unfortunately, Price Increases Are Unavoidable’
Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging
costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said
in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“Unfortunately, p...
Tankers moving again after Iran deal
Marine tracking platforms say at least four tankers have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on ending their war. The first to pass into the Gulf of Oman was a French-flagged vessel carrying liquefied natu...
Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan...
Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan Teaches Its Citizens How to Fly Drones. “I may not be a soldier, but if [a China invasion] ever happened here, as a citizen, I’d like to have the ability to help in some way.”
Assume You Will Be Hacked . “As AI tools have...
Assume You Will Be Hacked. “As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. The result has been a change in the scale, speed, and sophistication of hacks…”
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Bonus: Wild Animal Dads from Terrestrials
In honor of Father's Day, here is a family friendly bonus episode from our kids' podcast Terrestrials.
What does it really mean to be a dad? In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but certainly no...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Surreal Figures Step from Leonora Carrington’s Paintings into ‘Shape of Dreams’
The prolific artist's oeuvre extends far beyond the two-dimensional surface.
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Why Lionel Messi is a genius on the football pitch .
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Weed Habit
"What would these weeds say of the city if they could talk?"
Longreads
• Dr. Dinesh Kumar Jangra
The People Who Know Too Much: A Reading List on Amateur Experts
Trump signs agreement to end war with Iran
The US and Iranian presidents have signed a memorandum of understanding which could be a first step to ending the war between the two countries. It includes an end to fighting on all fronts, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of the US blockade of Iranian...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Snap Unveils Specs, Its $2,200 AR Glasses, and They’re Fugly
Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link):
Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs,
which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into
see-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can
preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with ...
Watch Baseball Games in Realtime in 8-Bit View
This is kind of fantastic: Ribbie lets you watch actual MLB baseball games “rendered pitch by pitch in a cozy 8-bit view while they happen”.
Ribbie is a simple way to keep a live baseball game nearby. It shows the score, the bases, the count, and a tiny pixel field that moves with the real game.
I built it because I wanted something between a stats tab and a full broadcast. Something you can leave open while you work, cook, or do whatever else, then glance over and know what is happening.
There are a few different views you can use. The image above is the fullscreen view. Here’s the fullscreen game chooser view and the room view of the game.
I love this. Nice use of Silkscreen too. 😊
Tags: baseball · design · Silkscreen · sports · typography
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Vehicle Motion Cues — a.k.a. Apple’s Weird Anti-Nausea Dots
theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work
Thomas Ricker, writing for The Verge:
I’ll just work from the car, I thought. But after a few minutes of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that sweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but nothing helped... until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.
Introduced in 2024, Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues promise to tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate the motion sickness felt when trying to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.
My son has suffered from motion sickness in cars his whole life, and Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues work like a charm for him too. What a great feature.
Link: theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review…
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB monster - with...
Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas...
Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas back in May.