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I've been upgrading a ton of Datasette plugins recently for compatibility with the Datasette 1.0a20 release from last week - 35 so far. A lot of the work is very repetitive so I've been outsourcing it to Codex CLI. Here's the recipe I've landed on: codex exec --dangerously-b...

Apple Newsroom: ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items. [...] Crafted in Japan, iPhone Pocket features a singu...

Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan is the most entertaining history of anything I have ever seen.

[This is a vintage post originally from Feb 2016.]

Tags: Bill Wurtz · Japan · timeless posts · video

Mattias Krantz bought an octopus from the fish market and taught it how to play piano.

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Another live gig coming up this Friday at the Helvete Club in Oberhausen. → Tickets ←.

The trailer for Train Dreams, a film adaptation of the novella by Denis Johnson. “In select theaters November 7 and on Netflix November 21.”

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Jamelle Bouie: “I’m gonna make a case to you that no matter what you’ve heard about the filibuster, you should want the filibuster to be sent to the ash bin of history.”

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Jessica Guo: “If there’s something out there that calls to you, I hope you listen. Give yourself permission to do the thing.” Guo just finished hiking both the the Continental Divide Trail and the Great Divide Trail, solo. 3500+ miles!

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Patrick George, writing for The Atlantic under the ominous headline “Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can” (News+ link): Some automakers have made a point of proclaiming their allegiance to CarPlay, knowing that’s what buyers want. Toyota’s EVs tell CarPlay how much electri...

Here’s the trailer for The Age of Audio, a feature-length documentary about the invention and popularization of podcasting, from Adam Curry to Ronald Young Jr.

I ran across this movie via a clip on Instagram that explains how the word “podcast” came to be; here’s the same clip from YouTube:

Every time there’s a new technology, it always has to be named the dumbest thing.

Whoever came up with the name podcasting, like what a dumbass name.

It’s so funny cuz the podcast community gets very heated about these issues.

Whoever invented the word podcast, I’m going to punch him in the throat.

See also blogging. 🫠

Tags: movies · podcasts · The Age of Audio · trailers · video

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Fonts based on the type generated by the Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer (1980).

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For a More Creative Brain, Travel. “New sounds, smells, language, tastes, sensations, and sights spark different synapses in the brain and may have the potential to revitalize the mind.”

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“China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.”

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Artist and architect Danny Shaddick and the rapper Shad have known each other since high school, and they both wound up in Toronto making art together. Now, they’ve made an unusual musical robot that incorporates drums, found objects, and field recordings from around their shared city. 

Watch a short documentary about Danny and Shad, and listen to their original song in full: https://www.atlasobscura.com/hubs/toronto  

This episode was produced in partnership with Destination Toronto. 

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan are the kings of the sewer after rewatching Brian De Palma’s ‘Snake Eyes,’ starring Nic Cage, Gary Sinise, and Carla Gugino.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo

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I upgrade my iPhones and iPads to new iOS releases, including developer betas, pretty much willy-nilly. I’m more conservative about the Macs I use for work. For example, I rely on audio software from Rogue Amoeba for recording both The Talk Show and Dithering, and there were...

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Jason Snell, writing at Macworld: In that first event (which you can relive in the YouTube video below), Apple announced its first wave of M1 Macs: the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. The Macs themselves all used the same design as their Intel predecessor...

High Horse: The Black Cowboy is a three-part documentary about the culture of Black cowboys & cowgirls and their erasure from the history of the western United States.

From executive producer Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions, the pop culture and historical documentary confronts and reclaims the Wild West while revealing the story of the Black cowboy — a history that has largely been untold. It rides into the forgotten corners of history, shattering myths and celebrating the Black cowboys, farmers, jockeys, musicians, and rodeo champions who built the West — and now takes back their place in the saddle, sitting high atop the horse.

High Horse: The Black Cowboy starts streaming Nov 20th on Peacock.

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