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Radiolab
17 Apr 14:00 • WNYC Studios

The Resistance of a Cow

radiolab.org/podcast/the-resistance-of-a-cow

There’s something rotten in the cows of Denmark. And Minnesota. And Wisconsin. And Idaho. What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water and start drinking … urine? A Danish farmer calls a special investigator, who takes one look ...

Dan’s Polaroids
17 Apr 13:19

16.04.2026

The front of a white van, photographed from the right side. The top of a bamboo fence in front. — Spotted this van.

Longreads
17 Apr 12:00 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Leaving America

"Americans have always moved away. These days, expat Lindsey Tramuta writes, record numbers are leaving or planning to leave in search of health care, civil rights, freedoms, even safety. Does exiting the United States mean you’ve given up? Not necessarily."

Longreads
17 Apr 10:55 • Longreads

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

In this edition: the jaws of history; war and piece(s); the last day of camp; stay a while; picture me rollin’.

Simon Willison's Weblog
17 Apr 05:45

datasette 1.0a28

Release: datasette 1.0a28 I was upgrading Datasette Cloud to 1.0a27 and discovered a nasty collection of accidental breakages caused by changes in that alpha. This new alpha addresses those directly: Fixed a compatibility bug introduced in 1.0a27 where execute_wri...

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
17 Apr 04:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Bone Vinyl (Classic)

In the Soviet Union, x-rays didn’t just give you a look inside the human body. They also gave you a glimpse of the outside world, thanks to music that was imprinted onto this unassuming medical tool.

Hollywood’s World Map of California

This is a map published in 1927 by Paramount Studios showing the areas of California & Nevada that doubled as shooting locations for far-flung locales, including Siberia, Wales, the Nile, New England, the Red Sea, and the Alps.

Tags: Hollywood · maps · movies

Daring Fireball
17 Apr 01:18 • John Gruber

App Store Reviews Are Busted

blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/13/app-store-reviews-are-busted.html

Terry Godier: For example, if you have a 4.1 star rating in the App Store, any 4 star review is going to decrease that average. In other words, leaving a 4 star review is essentially leaving a negative review. [...] You will see a lot of 4 star reviews that say things l...

Daring Fireball
17 Apr 00:12 • John Gruber

Freecash Was More Like Scamcash

techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/how-the-rewards-app-freecash-scammed-its-way-to-the-top-of-the-app-stores/

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve more than likely encountered ads for Freecash. The app has been marketed as a way to make money just by scrolling TikTok — and jumped to the top of the app stores in recent months, peaking at...

Rick Beato
16 Apr 21:58

Simon Phillips on hitting rimshots #drums #drummer #shorts

Daring Fireball
16 Apr 21:00 • John Gruber

Colliding With Reality, Indeed

nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.EB30.mygpleorcQhg&smid=url-share

Anton Troianovski, reporting for The New York Times under the headline “Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality”: President Trump is trying to cast his Iran war as all but over, a done-and-dusted success. But after years of trying to impose his own re...

Citation Needed
16 Apr 20:48 • Molly White

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s old firm pumps $10 million into super PAC led by Tether executive

Cantor Fitzgerald, the Lutnick-tied financial services firm that owns a stake in and custodies reserves for the stablecoin issuer, is bankrolling a super PAC led by a Tether executive.

Simon Willison's Weblog
16 Apr 20:39

llm-anthropic 0.25

Release: llm-anthropic 0.25

New model: claude-opus-4.7, which supports thinking_effort: xhigh. #66

New thinking_display and thinking_adaptive boolean options. thinking_display summarized output is currently only available in JSON output or JSON logs.

Increased default max_tokens to the maximum allowed for each model.

No longer uses obsolete structured-outputs-2025-11-13 beta header for older models.

Tags: llm, anthropic, claude

Daring Fireball
16 Apr 20:30 • John Gruber

How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers

threads.com/@apstylebook/post/DXKtXVXEh7T

The Associated Press Stylebook, on Threads: We updated our style for telephone numbers in 2024 to drop parentheses. We now recommend the form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (from the United States), the country code, the city code and the telephone num...

Daring Fireball
16 Apr 19:30 • John Gruber

Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’

9to5mac.com/2026/04/15/netflix-ruined-its-apple-tv-app-by-switching-to-a-custom-video-player/

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The change began rolling out a few weeks ago, and user frustration is mounting. On Reddit, there’s a growing thread of Netflix subscribers saying they are canceling their subscription because of this change to the Apple TV app. [...] The change a...

Daring Fireball
16 Apr 19:00 • John Gruber

Apple Pay Express Mode for Transit, When Used With a Visa Card, Is Vulnerable to Scam Tap-to-Pay Readers

macrumors.com/2026/04/15/apple-pay-visa-transit-exploit/

Juli Clover, MacRumors: The process requires the victim to have Express Transit Mode enabled for payments, and a Visa card linked for those payments, among other steps. As it turns out, it’s a Visa-related security loophole rather than an iPhone issue, and it doesn’t wor...

Accidental Tech Podcast
16 Apr 18:26

687: You Can Bend This Line

Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco Roon Nugs 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom Follow-up: Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen) Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though The other neat explainer John was ...

kottke.org
16 Apr 17:36 • Jason Kottke

Researchers have found that some aspects of sperm...

Researchers have found that some aspects of sperm whales’ communication are “remarkably similar” to human languages.

Simon Willison's Weblog
16 Apr 17:30

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

For anyone who has been taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning's two big model releases - Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Alibaba and Claude Opus 4.7 from Anthropic. Here's the Qwen 3.6 pelican, generat...

Rick Beato
16 Apr 17:09

The Spotify Top 10 Got Even Worse

In this episode, I go through the top 10 songs on the US Spotify pop charts... somehow they got even worse.

My Beato Club supporters:
Justin Scott
Terence Mark
Jason Murray
Lucienne Kilpatrick
Alexander Young
Jason Wagner
Todd Ladner
Rob Kline
Nicholas Long
Tim Benson
Leonardo Martins da Costa Rodrigues
Eddie Perez
David Solomon
MICHAEL JOYCE
Stephen Stubbs
colin stead
Jonathan Wentworth-Linton
Patrick Payne
MATTHEW KARIS
Matthew Barouch
Shaun Samuels
Danny Kurywchak
Gregory Reedy
Sean Coleman
Alexander Verbitskiy
CL Turner
Jason Pappafotis
John Fulford
Margaret Carno
Robert C
David M Combs
Eric Flatt
Reto Spoerli
Herr Moritz Adam
Monte St. Johns
Jon Beezley
Peter DeVault
Eric Nabstedt
Eric Beggs
Rich Germano
Brian Bloom
Peter Pillitteri
Piush Dahal
Toby Guidry