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In 1915, a devastating fire destroyed the Chinatown in Walnut Grove, California. In its aftermath, a group of Chinese immigrant residents founded the town of Locke – not just another Chinatown, but a self-sustaining Chinese community nestled in the California Delta. Today, Locke stands as one of the last remaining rural Chinese towns in the United States.

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Kyle Brandt, and Joanna Robinson crank up the studio to 98.6 degrees to rewatch Robert Redford in ‘Sneakers,’ alongside Sidney Poitier, Mary McDonnell, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, and River Phoenix.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nair, Chris Wohlers, and Eduardo Ocampo

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Modern video should be simple to ship and scale. Mux makes it easy to build live and on-demand video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.

Upload a video, get back a playback URL. No transcoding headaches. No CDN setup. Go further with the building blocks of your video: thumbnails, transcripts, and storyboards. Use them to create exactly what you want.

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nanochat Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be trained for as little as $100: This repo is a full-stack implementation o...

At the bottom of Apple’s press release announcing that F1 The Movie will be available for streaming on December 12: Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. Ahead of its global streaming debut on Apple TV, the film continues to be available for purc...

The president of the United States, yesterday on his blog:

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

No president, of course, can be expected to remember everything that happened during his four-year term. But Trump, of course, was still president on January 6, and the events that day were — to say the least — historically significant. The entire point of the January 6 insurrection — for his role in which, Trump was impeached — was to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president on January 20.

The man is obviously unwell.

Link: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115359345947837427

I missed this story back in 2024, but it’s the same infuriating impulse toward infantilization as with the Bond posters this month. Amazon restored the correct poster art for Full Metal Jacket, but they didn’t learn the lesson: don’t fuck with art.

Link: warhistoryonline.com/news/full-metal-jacket-born-to-kill…

Brian Krebs: The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy con...

Apple Support: The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be available for download for new users as of October 10, 2025. You can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 or earlier. Clips is such an interesting story. It really was a great app. ...

The Atlas Places Team bring two stories - one from the campus of Gallaudet University and the other from Cornell University to tell us about usual traditions that take place in these universities.

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Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year? (And are those any three times — or does that mean three specific days, like Christmas, New Year's Day, etc.)

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]

— Slashdot, asking the obvious question

Tags: slashdot, ai-ethics, ai, microsoft

My thanks to Drata for once again sponsoring DF. Their message is short and sweet: Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.

Link: drata.com/daring

Claude Code includes the ability to run sub-agents, where a separate agent loop with a fresh token context is dispatched to achieve a goal and report back when it's done. I wrote a bit about how these work in June when I traced Claude Code's activity by intercepting its API ...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79.

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Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline back on September 23: The release of Apple TV+’s The Savant has been put on hold. The decision comes three days before the thriller starring Jessica Chastain was slated to premiere on the streamer Sept. 26. No new date has been set...

Clyde Haberman, The New York Times: Saul Zabar, who across more than seven decades as a principal owner of the Upper West Side food emporium bearing his family name kept New Yorkers amply fortified with smoked fish, earthy bread and tangy cheese, not to mention pungent c...

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature Mitchell Hashimoto provides a comprehensive answer to the frequent demand for a detailed description of shipping a non-trivial production feature to an existing project using AI-assistance. In this case it's a slick unobtrusive auto-updat...

Garth Franklin, writing at Dark Horizons: Amazon has quietly walked back new James Bond thumbnail artwork on its Prime Video service following controversy over digital alterations to the original art. As reported here yesterday, the art was unveiled on the weekend to coi...

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

Tags: vibe-coding, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms