My piece this morning about the Marimo acquisition is an example of a variant of a TIL - I didn't know much about CoreWeave, the acquiring company, so I poked around to answer my own questions and then wrote up what I learned as a short post. Curiosity-driven blogging if you like.
Arrived in Berlin for IndieWebCamp on the weekend! 🥳
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki has been home to an infestation of Chilean recluse spiders for more than 50 years.
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I’ve got this queued up to listen to on the Shinkansen later: Lane 8’s Fall 2025 Mixtape. Available on YouTube, Soundcloud, and Apple Music. I’ve added this to my Underscore collection too.
theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_openai_loss/
sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apple-results-holiday-dunks-and-questions-dodged/
apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
joe-steel.com/2025-10-22-Why-GM-Will-Give-You-Gemini-But-Not-CarPlay.html
mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
Tom Ellison, at McSweeney’s:
How are my competitors doing, the ones you all insisted students use instead of me? That’s right, they were supposed to go to the American Journal of Social Sciences, Powered by OpenAI. Or museums, like the Smithsonian’s Charlie Kirk Shrine to American Greatness. I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok.
Link: mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready…
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
There’s a mansion in New Orleans with a truly horrific past. Author Colin Dickey, who has joined us every Thursday this month, reveals the real life horrors that took place here, its once sadistic owner and its haunted reputation.
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To really understand a concept, you have to "invent" it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.
Tags: francois-chollet, teaching
Proof of life! I’m writing a longer post about my time in Kōyasan, but in the meantime, I made this Insta reel of some of the photos I took there.
theverge.com/news/807686/elon-musk-grokipedia-launch-wikipedia-xai-copied
