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I Made a Bet with Tesla

Tesla held a Cybercab event today and it was kinda weird...

Original Robotaxi Impressions: https://youtu.be/fgm5uZaS3-E

(I will definitely be donating in January anyway)

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OpenAI Soft-Releases GPT‑6 Astra

simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/3/gpt6-astra/

Simon Willison:

GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS” — I’ve not tried it yet myself, so I don’t have a great deal to say about it yet.

It’s going to be API priced at the same rate as Claude Fable 5 and 5.1: $10/million input and $50/million output. This is clearly OpenAI’s Fable competitor, and appears to score higher than Fable on most of OpenAI’s self-reported benchmarks.

Link: simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/3/gpt6-astra/

Rick Beato
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Billy Joel plays Beethoven Symphony No. 6 #billyjoel #beethoven #shorts 

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GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself, so I don't have...

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Denizens of a Crowded City Populate Erin Milez’s Dense Paintings

Denizens of a Crowded City Populate Erin Milez’s Dense PaintingsMilez's new body of work goes on view this month in 'Everything the Light Touches' at Monya Rowe Gallery.

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Autumnal Open Thread

My move is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!), kids are heading back to school, I’m going to be traveling, and it’s a holiday weekend here in the States, so there’s probably not going to be too much going on here until next week. Thanks for your patience…I can’t wait to get back to work here.

In the meantime, I thought I’d open up this thread for folks to share what they feel like sharing. I’ll go first below…

Tags: kottke.org · open threads

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40 Filmmakers in 25 Countries Team Up for an Ode to Nature Shot Entirely on Super 8 Cameras

40 Filmmakers in 25 Countries Team Up for an Ode to Nature Shot Entirely on Super 8 CamerasBringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, 'Super Nature' is a collective ode to our planet.

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Phil Schiller Steps Down From Running App Store and Product Events

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-s-phil-schiller-steps-down-from-running-app-store-and-product-events?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODE5Mzk5NywiZXhwIjoxNzg4Nzk4Nzk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS0VDTE1LSkg2VjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.G1fAbZQH31AQBLUajPYPUJ7BqRyeIUN7SbxQZFAqMXE

Mark Gurman:

Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events.

The 66-year-old executive, who was Apple’s senior vice president of marketing until leaving that job in 2020, made the latest change in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

This is true, I’ve confirmed. (And the decision was not made “in recent days”, although the org chart change might have been.) Seems natural for this to coincide with the CEO transition. What a run for Schiller.

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-s-phil…

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MapQuest Refuses to Relabel Lake Ontario, Rewarded With Surge in Popularity

thehill.com/homenews/administration/6063924-mapquest-tops-apple-google-maps-in-downloads-after-refusing-trumps-lake-america-change/?ref=ihnatko.com

Finya Swai, reporting for The Hill two days ago: MapQuest has surged in popularity on the app charts after the mapping service said it would not rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after President Trump signed an executive order changing its name. The company said its...

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Going Home with Wendell Berry

"The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America."

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707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ The Marco Offset™ Follow-up: Luz fooled me, Jerry! Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz Mea culpa Apple fooled us all Siri blobs fix System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on...

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75,000 Patterned Paper Kites Cascade in Jacob Hashimoto’s Largest-Ever Installation

75,000 Patterned Paper Kites Cascade in Jacob Hashimoto’s Largest-Ever InstallationHashimoto’s elaborate 'Giant Arc' installation is a vibrant "cloud canopy" at SFMOMA.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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What If You Never Slept?

Imagine never having to sleep again. To make it work, we’d need to reset and change a few things and in the end, you might not be human anymore. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #sleepscience #sleep Sources & further reading:...

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Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem...

Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died. She was 92.

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The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal

"The the first time 'The New York Times' had lost a defamation case in over half a century."

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson

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The author of The Castle likes his music in a time capsule and silence in his home—but definitely not in his stories.

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Captain Becky’s Wind-Powered Boat (Classic)

We meet Becky Sigwright, who captains a wind-powered boat that’s been sailing around Maine since before the invention of the telephone. This episode was produced in partnership with the Maine Office of Tourism.


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Handedness

A 'left-handed specialist' is a physicist who studies the weak interaction.

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iOS 27 Introduces New ‘iPhone Handoff’ Feature

macrumors.com/2026/09/02/ios-27-iphone-handoff-feature/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: “iPhone Handoff” can be set up from the Settings app, under the Cellular menu. During the setup process, you can choose which iPhone you want to be the main device that you use most often and which one you want to be the companion device. Apple...

Rick Beato
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Professor of Rock on The Beatles influence of other artists #thebeatles #shorts