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kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?

Whoa, look at the interior of this new Japanese restaurant in NYC called Shirokuro — all of the surfaces (floors, chairs, walls, counters, etc.) are painted to look like a 2-dimensional drawing. From Colossal: “Shirokuro” translates to “white-black.” The New York Times sh...

Daring Fireball
19 May 2025 • John Gruber

Trump Tells Walmart to ‘Eat the Tariffs’

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114523638623110397

The president of the United States, on his blog: Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT...

Daring Fireball
19 May 2025 • John Gruber

WSJ: ‘Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs’

wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-price-increase-2eaebb14?st=P6hk65&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Rolfe Winkler and Yang Jie, reporting last week for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link, but also here’s a News+ link): Apple is weighing price increases for its fall iPhone lineup, a step it is seeking to couple with new features and design changes, accord...

kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations...

The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations of what’s happening to our government and why it matters”. Their first three are on Medicaid, Transgender Healthcare, and Equality at Work.

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Daring Fireball
19 May 2025 • John Gruber

★ More Insight and Not-Negativity

Some “thank god some of you remembered because I thought I was going nuts” follow-up regarding my remembrance the other day, “15 Years Later: ‘Very Insightful and Not Negative’”. I wrote: So, what would you do if Steve Jobs was quoted in a viral blog post saying, “We thi...

kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies...

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95. “He and about 60 other engineers had less than two days to invent a solution using materials already onboard the spacecraft.”

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kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

NASA engineers fixed some thrusters on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles...

NASA engineers fixed some thrusters on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles (almost 1 light-day) away. They’d been broken for 20+ years and the fix was tricky. “If the heaters were still off when they fired, it could trigger a small explosion…” Amazing.

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kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win. “Those on...

Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win. “Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That’s why it was striking when she [delivered] a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy…”

kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solve Ever

A group of three students at Purdue University have shattered the world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solve by robot — their bot solved the cube in just 0.103 seconds (103 milliseconds). As a comparison, the former record was 305 milliseconds and “a human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds”. As one of the students said, “So, before you even realize it’s moving, we’ve solved it.”

The world record for a human solve is 3.13 seconds by Max Park in 2023. (via we’re here

Tags: robots · Rubik’s Cube · video

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kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in...

“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema — and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong.” (I was slack-jawed by the end of this.)

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kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Yes, the Media’s Biden Coverage Was Flawed. But Its Reporting on Trump...

Yes, the Media’s Biden Coverage Was Flawed. But Its Reporting on Trump Was Far Worse. “Despite wishful thinking, there’s no such thing as ‘just the facts’ or complete neutrality, because editorial decisions and reporting choices always matter.”

kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Colin Jost & Michael Che give each other jokes to tell on...

Colin Jost & Michael Che give each other jokes to tell on SNL’s Weekend Update. Humans don’t have gaskets but I nearly popped something gasket-like while watching this I was laughing so hard. (Seriously, there was actual chest pain.)

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19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Netflix has picked up Sesame Street after HBO/Max/HBO Max/LOL Max cancelled their...

Netflix has picked up Sesame Street after HBO/Max/HBO Max/LOL Max cancelled their financial support of the show.

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kottke.org
19 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Congratulations to Amazon on Its Partnership With the Saudi Prince Who Murdered...

Congratulations to Amazon on Its Partnership With the Saudi Prince Who Murdered Jeff Bezos’ Employee and Hacked His Phone. A profile in rapacity & cowardice.

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
19 May 2025 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

The Places YOU Gained After the Pandemic

Earlier this month, the Atlas Obscura staff shared the places we gained during the pandemic. Now, we hear your stories – from a university that is an unlikely home for a certain critter, to a private community, to an arboretum and a chance encounter.

Plus: We want to hear from you for our next compilation episode! Pride month is coming, and we want to hear your stories about the places that celebrate LGBTQ+ history, and what they mean to you. Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Or record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com.

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xkcd.com
19 May 2025

Renormalization

Daring Fireball
19 May 2025 • John Gruber

Bolt

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kottke.org
18 May 2025 • Jason Kottke

Some Recent Tweaks (and Post Faving!)

Hey folks. I’ve been plugging away behind the scenes on some new features and while some of them aren’t ready to go yet, others are. I don’t know if Sunday evening is the best time to do this, but here’s what’s new on the site: 1. Faving posts. For the past several months, ...

Daring Fireball
18 May 2025 • John Gruber

Slate Truck: A $20–30K American-Made Electric Small Pickup With No Paint, No Stereo, No Touchscreen

theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos

Month-old news but I’m cleaning up tabs today. I love everything about this pickup except the fact that it doesn’t have a speaker system built-in. No one wants to put a Bluetooth boombox in their cabin and, worse, isn’t that sort of an obvious safety hazard? You get in a cra...

Daring Fireball
18 May 2025 • John Gruber

Joe Biden Has an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer

nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/politics/biden-prostate-cancer.html

Tyler Pager, The New York Times: Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday. The diagnosis came after Mr. Biden reported urinary symptoms, wh...