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On a summer day in 1976, four friends had a strange experience in the Northwoods of Maine that would come back to haunt them decades later. Today, we’re exploring the hidden morbid side of the national parks system with our friends from National Park After Dark. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks.

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Marcus Mendes, in a piece at 9to5Mac with multiple spoilers for next week’s keynote: Apple is working on supporting the ability to export notes in Markdown from Apple Notes, which is something third-party apps have supported for years. Granted, this is a niche feature, b...

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Wayne Ma, reporting last month at The Information (a paywalled website so obnoxious that they force $300/year subscribers to click through an article-blocking popover pitching them on upgrading to a $500/year subscription), and summarized here by MacRumors: However, the ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a scheme they’ve dubbed “Local Mess” — used by Meta since September 2024, and Russian search engine Yandex since 2017 (!) — to de-anonymize Android users’ web browsing across millions of websites that include Meta’s and Yandex’s respective...

Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica: This abuse has been observed only in Android, and evidence suggests that the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica target only Android users. The researchers say it may be technically feasible to target iOS because browsers on that platform a...

Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto, reporting last week for NOTUS (“News of The United States” — a seriously good up-and-coming national affairs publication):

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.

Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.

Shocking that these dipshits would generate their report with whatever came out of an LLM and not actually check — let alone, you know, read — the cited studies.

Link: notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report…

Dyson:

Join James Dyson as he introduces the new Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones cleaner. Our latest, most advanced floorcare technology — now available in Japan.

Nine minutes, short and sweet. I watched the whole thing and loved it. If it had been pre-recorded, I bet I wouldn’t have gotten more than two or three minutes into it, even though the video would have been more polished. There’s just something compelling about a live demo, even when you’re watching on YouTube.

(The new PencilVac looks cool too, but it seems too good to be true. I’ll be interested to hear from reviewers whether it, uh, actually sucks or kinda sucks.)

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=ve6JuJV17FQ

Hard not to see the invitation and this new animation as a hint that the much-rumored UI redesign/refresh is, indeed, going to be glassy.

Link: x.com/gregjoz/status/1929558230990049758?s=12

There’s a new “Go To” functionality available, to quickly navigate to any of your feeds or lists.

The option is currently only shown on the navigation menu for larger screens, until the feature’s usability has been improved (in general, too, but in particular for those smaller screens).

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose
Showtime: Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm)
Special Guest(s): Definitely, but keep in mind what I announced last week
Price: $50

I’ll have more to announce about the show soon, but one week out, I just want to remind everyone that tickets are on sale now, and selling at about the same pace as the last two years. (In 2018 and 2019, when WWDC was a real in-person conference in San Jose, tickets sold out almost instantaneously.)

Also: at least one sponsorship slot is still available. If you’ve got a product or service you’d like to see me promote at the start of the show, shoot me an email.

Link: ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2025

We visit a mysterious sinkhole in Arizona that has befuddled an exclusive group of divers who’ve gotten a glimpse of a strange world at its sandy bottom. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks. 

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Sebastiaan de With, in a wonderfully-illustrated piece (a) examining, in detail, where iOS UI has been, and (b) speculating, with detailed mockups, where he thinks/hopes it’s about to go, starting at WWDC next week: I’d like to imagine what could come next. Both by rende...

PR #537: Fix Markdown in og descriptions Since OpenAI Codex is now available to us ChatGPT Plus subscribers I decided to try it out against my blog. It's a very nice implementation of the GitHub-connected coding "agent" pattern, as also seen in Google's Jules and Microsoft's...

Codex agent internet access Sam Altman, just now: codex gets access to the internet today! it is off by default and there are complex tradeoffs; people should read about the risks carefully and use when it makes sense. This is the Codex "cloud-based software engineering ag...

We're hosting the sixth in our series of Datasette Public Office Hours livestream sessions this Friday, 6th of June at 2pm PST (here's that time in your location).

The topic is going to be tool support in LLM, as introduced here.

I'll be walking through the new features, and we're also inviting five minute lightning demos from community members who are doing fun things with the new capabilities. If you'd like to present one of those please get in touch via this form.

Here's a link to add it to Google Calendar.

Tags: datasette-public-office-hours, llm, datasette, generative-ai, llm-tool-use, ai, llms

From my 2011 post linking to Fantastical 1.0: Fantastical’s primary innovation is its natural language parser for event creation — you type something like “Yanks-Rays tonight at 6:40” and Fantastical not only parses that into a new event, but, using some very clever anim...

Back in March New Scientist reported on a successful Freedom of Information request they had filed requesting UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle's ChatGPT logs: New Scientist has obtained records of Kyle’s ChatGPT use under the Freedom o...

Run Your Own AI

Anthony Lewis published this neat, concise tutorial on using my LLM tool to run local models on your own machine, using llm-mlx.

An under-appreciated way to contribute to open source projects is to publish unofficial guides like this one. Always brightens my day when something like this shows up.

Via @anthonyllewis.bsky.social

Tags: open-source, llm, generative-ai, mlx, ai, llms