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The Best Films of 2025

David Ehrlich is back with my favorite end-of-year celebration of film; here’s his look back at the best films of 2025 (YouTube). See the full list at Letterboxd. I’ve only seen five of these so it’s difficult to comment on the list as a whole, but I feel like Sinners should have been higher?

Tags: best of · best of 2025 · David Ehrlich · movies · video

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22 Jan 22:04 • Jason Kottke

The Best Films of 2025

David Ehrlich is back with my favorite end-of-year celebration of film; here’s his look back at the best films of 2025 (YouTube). See the full list at Letterboxd. I’ve only seen five of these so it’s difficult to comment on the list as a whole, but I feel like Sinners should have been higher?

Tags: best of · best of 2025 · David Ehrlich · movies · video

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22 Jan 21:09 • Jason Kottke

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95....

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.”

kottke.org
22 Jan 21:01 • Jason Kottke

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.”

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Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:54 • John Gruber

Jackass of the Week: Utah State Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore

ksl.com/article/51436458/iphone-vs-android-this-lawmaker-wants-utah-to-officially-weigh-in

Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Daniel Woodruff, reporting for KSL News:

SB138, sponsored by Cullimore, R-Sandy, would make Android, the world’s most popular mobile device operating system, an official state symbol, joining the ranks of the official state cooking pot (the dutch oven), the official state crustacean (the brine shrimp), and the official state mushroom (the porcini).

“Someday, everybody with an iPhone will realize that the technology is better on Android,” Cullimore told reporters during a media availability on Wednesday, the second day of the legislative session.

But, he added, “I’m the only one in my family — all my kids, my wife, they all have iPhones — but I’m holding strong.” [...]

“I don’t expect this to really get out of committee,” he said.

(Via Joe Rossignol.)

Link: ksl.com/article/51436458/iphone-vs-android-this-lawmaker…

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:51 • John Gruber

Taegan Goddard: ‘There’s No Going Back’

politicalwire.com/2026/01/20/trump-changed-the-presidency-and-theres-no-going-back/

Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire, in a post that pairs perfectly with Om Malik’s re: velocity bestowing authority: The new Democratic argument isn’t about restoring guardrails. It’s about moving fast — and using power unapologetically — to undo what Trump has do...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:51 • John Gruber

Om Malik: ‘Velocity Is the New Authority’

om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/

Om Malik: That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has become the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken the rol...

Accidental Tech Podcast
22 Jan 20:21

675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️ Follow-up: We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week! Gruber’s post Top Dogs is coming “Cloud technology”? Google’s blog post Gurman’s post Clipboard hijacking It’s...

Daring Fireball
22 Jan 20:06 • John Gruber

‘Inside Trump’s Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn’

wsj.com/politics/national-security/a-piece-of-ice-for-world-protection-trump-demands-europe-cut-deal-on-greenland-cc1014f6?st=2XDhnR

The Wall Street Journal (gift link; News+ link): When President Trump arrived in the snow-covered Swiss Alps on Wednesday afternoon, European leaders were panicking that his efforts to acquire Greenland would trigger a trans-Atlantic conflagration. By the time the sun se...

kottke.org
22 Jan 20:03 • Jason Kottke

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song...

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles); it’s “a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion”. Miller is also working on a novel about Persephone.

kottke.org
22 Jan 19:55 • Jason Kottke

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline...

Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles); it’s “a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion”. Miller is also working on a novel about Persephone.

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22 Jan 18:51 • Jason Kottke

Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight

This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot Matt Melnyk had perhaps the best view in the world of the aurora and captured some fantastic shots. He told space.com that “This was the most incredible display of aurora I’ve ever seen in my 20 years of flying!” Tags: astronomy · flying · Matt Melnyk · photography

kottke.org
22 Jan 18:48 • Jason Kottke

Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight

This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot Matt Melnyk had perhaps the best view in the world of the aurora and captured some fantastic shots. He told space.com that “This was the most incredible display of aurora I’ve ever seen in my 20 years of flying!” Tags: astronomy · flying · Matt Melnyk · photography 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

kottke.org
22 Jan 18:12 • Jason Kottke

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of...

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of his movies & TV shows, including Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and the Poker Face pilot. “Print them, share them, act them out with your friends.”

Simon Willison's Weblog
22 Jan 18:06

Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation

Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation models other than noting that they've got really good, so I can't speak for how notable this new release from Qwen is. ...

kottke.org
22 Jan 18:00 • Jason Kottke

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the...

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of his movies & TV shows, including Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and the Poker Face pilot. “Print them, share them, act them out with your friends.”

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22 Jan 17:39 • Jason Kottke

Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am...

Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am Against Socialized Medicine. “Don’t you know that it makes my benefits less special when everyone can receive them?”

kottke.org
22 Jan 17:20 • Jason Kottke

Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am...

Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am Against Socialized Medicine. “Don’t you know that it makes my benefits less special when everyone can receive them?”

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Daring Fireball
22 Jan 16:33 • John Gruber

The Scale of ICE Protests in Minnesota

bsky.app/profile/margaret.bsky.social/post/3mcyca2l2wk2j

Margaret Killjoy, in a thread on Bluesky (via Kottke): I came to Minneapolis to report on what’s going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is “just what is the scale of the resistance?” After all, we’re all used to the news calling Portland a “war zone” or...

kottke.org
22 Jan 16:18 • Jason Kottke

What Is the Scale of the Resistance in Minnesota?

A must-read thread from Margaret Killjoy (Skywriter thread) on what’s going on in Minnesota. I came to Minneapolis to report on what’s going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is “just what is the scale of the resistance?” After all, we’re all used to the n...