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The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up. A recent meta-analysis reveals that “adjusting...

The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up. A recent meta-analysis reveals that “adjusting our goals in response to stress or challenges, rather than grinding on, is often ‘a more appropriate and beneficial response’”.

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A thread of “feel good” YouTube channels to watch. E.g.: “CinemaTherapy. Two...

A thread of “feel good” YouTube channels to watch. E.g.: “CinemaTherapy. Two former college roommates (one a filmmaker, the other a therapist) analyze movies.”

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Poetic Textural Landscapes by Lee Hyun-Joung

I’ve posted about Korean artist Lee Hyun-Joung’s swirling and swooping work before, but I recently saw one of her pieces in person and decided to feature some of her most recent stuff. It’s always a good time to look at art. Tags: art · Lee Hyun-Joung 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Fifteen Years

"Want to feel old?" "Yes."

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Lots to like about Variety’s list of 100 Best Comedy Movies of...

Lots to like about Variety’s list of 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time, but Coming to America at #46 and no Trading Places at all make me question the list’s credibility.

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Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call "best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use". This is their attempt to retake the crown for best coding model after significant challenges from OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max and Google's Gemini 3...

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How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein...

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails. They reveal “a power elite practiced at disregarding pain” who have “learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering” to protect their network of power.

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sqlite-utils 3.39

sqlite-utils 3.39 I got a report of a bug in sqlite-utils concerning plugin installation - if you installed the package using uv tool install further attempts to install plugins with sqlite-utils install X would fail, because uv doesn't bundle pip by default. I had the same ...

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What’s All the Fuss About Pluribus?

So I’ve been watching Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus on Apple TV and this review from Inkoo Kang resonated with me (emphasis mine): Millions of offscreen casualties aside, it’s clear that Gilligan is aiming for a lighter — and stranger — outing than his tw...

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“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30. I can’t remember if...

“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30. I can’t remember if I was one of the few that saw this in the theater, but I loved this movie on VHS/DVD. Haven’t seen it for, what, 20 years though…

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“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see...

“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen. Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison — the ordinary, unposed figures of other people.”

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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images

We’ve talked before about how some people can picture things in their heads quite vividly and others can’t at all. The latter group has a condition called aphantasia. As soon as I close my eyes, what I see are not everyday objects, animals, and vehicles, but the dark unde...

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Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to...

Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to teach people what to do IRL situations. “Many people may not have seen an interaction with ICE yet, it’s a way to get folks to know or get used to what that might look like.”

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sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes

I released a new alpha version of sqlite-utils last night - the 128th release of that package since I started building it back in 2018. sqlite-utils is two things in one package: a Python library for conveniently creating and manipulating SQLite databases and a CLI tool for ...

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The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New...

The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New Reality. “We are heading into ‘overshoot’ within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?”

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The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad...

The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better).” The winning entry used a Tinder-like interface to swipe your desired days, months, and years.

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Frozen Dead Guy (Classic)

Atop a mountain in a picturesque Colorado town is the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be, from the person who for years has trekked up and down the mountain for this unique preservation mission. 

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★ Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired

There have been several new features that have been delayed in the EU while Apple tried to make them compliant with the DMA. iPhone Mirroring debuted over a year ago with iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Sequoia, but still remains unavailable today in the EU. Apple Intelligence was delay...

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"Good engineering management" is a fad

"Good engineering management" is a fad Will Larson argues that the technology industry's idea of what makes a good engineering manager changes over time based on industry realities. ZIRP hypergrowth has been exchanged for a more cautious approach today, and expectations of m...

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Clerk for iOS

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My thanks to Clerk for sponsoring last week at DF. Clerk makes authentication for iOS apps effortless — just drop in pre-built SwiftUI components for sign-in, MFA, and profile management. Fully customizable, always in sync with Apple’s design system, and packed with features developers love: social sign-in, user roles, and organization management.

Launch faster, stay secure, and scale confidently, whether you’re building the next big thing or a startup MVP. See how Clerk makes complete user management easy for modern iOS teams.

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