A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Ed Bindels’s Apple Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
This new museum in Utrecht (about 30–40 minutes south of Amsterdam) seems just astonishing. The rainbow wall of iMacs alone is incredible.
Link: applemuseum.nl/
ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model
I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you can talk to should be the smartest AI but it really isn't.
If you ask ChatGPT voice mode for its knowledge cutoff date it tells you Apri...
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls his ‘Red Empire’ was made so much easier, and so much more brutal, by the intelligence the Cambridge spies passed to Moscow.”
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool.
Diary Comics From the 1940s
This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s, documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II.
I never got to meet my grandma, she passed away young in 1977 but finding her 1940s sketches felt like she was finally introducing herself to me. She was so talented, and as you can see, she had absolutely zero filter (I finally understand where my mother and I get it from).
My favorite part is seeing her personality jump off the page. She goes from joking about Pre-Marital Chaos and Pancake Gravy to the gut-punch of my grandpa getting his deployment orders in ‘44. She wrote “Damn the Army and Hitler!”
(thx, andy)
Tags: comics
Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint &...
Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company. MCD published so many good titles/authors: Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloane Crosley, Dilla Time, Tamara Shopsin…
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
The Builders
In an episode first aired back in 2025 on our sister show, Terrestrials, we take you on a musical journey all about beavers. Few mammals have a bigger positive impact on the planet than the beaver. With its bright orange buck teeth, the creature is an expert engineer that br...
09.04.2026
I just watched this again. Here are some unused scenes.
YouTube
Only Lovers Left Alive â "Old Mirror Gag"
2014 Jim Jarmusch, Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Jeffrey Wright
🎬 Only Lovers Left Alive
Love the music, love the set and costumes, the pretty night shots, the characters, the dialogue, the humour. A pretty perfect movie!
👍 Recommended!
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Thomas Merton's Hermitage (Classic)
This little house in New Haven, Kentucky is where Thomas Merton aka profit-poet aka the rebel monk tried to get away from the world.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thomas-mertons-hermitage
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This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month.
For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, un...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/macs-crash-after-49-days-of-uptime/
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch
of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major
bug:
Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17
hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of ...
Simon Phillips on ghost notes #drums #drummer #shorts
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender). “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
GitHub Repo Size
Tool: GitHub Repo Size
GitHub doesn't tell you the repo size in the UI, but it's available in the CORS-friendly API. Paste a repo into this tool to see the size, for example for simonw/datasette (8.1MB).