"Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco."
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone...
“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts. By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”.
Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous,...
Lines, Ranked. “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous, but hot damn is it effective.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Irina Werning Chronicles 18 Years of Photographing ‘Las Pelilargas’ in a New Book
Werning's chronicle of a time-honored Latin American Indigenous tradition highlights patience, joy, and cultural pride.
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Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Ever New
"In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music, the present moment is an astonishing, improbable gift."
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Opposable Thumbs
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
Longreads
• Longreads
Open Season
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Haw Par Villa (Classic)
This amusement park in Singapore holds the Ten Courts of Hell, a series of dioramas that depict the kind of horrible fates awaiting people who behaved badly on Earth.
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Stanley Jordan playing melodies with both hands #guitarist #guitar #shorts 
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.
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A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis...
A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries. Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Broadcast Booths Around Baseball Tip Their Caps to John Sterling
mlb.com/news/broadcast-booths-around-baseball-mirror-john-sterling-signature-calls
Great stuff around MLB:
Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday
night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league,
with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical
routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct st...
New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon ....
New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon. “A new generation was starting to ask - who gets to decide what is right? And who has the authority to tell us how to live?”
20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets...
20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets pulled onto live TV. “Mr. Goma is being celebrated as a folk hero of sorts for anyone who has ever found themselves ill-equipped for a challenge in the workplace.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Claris CEO Ryan McCann on FileMaker in the Age of Agentic Coding
claris.com/blog/2026/how-claris-is-building-for-what-comes-next
That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”:
Every AI-generated applica...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Luca Maestri Runs the Cafeteria
Apple Newsroom, back in August 2024:
Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri
will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will
continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including
information systems and technology, information se...
Jon Krakauer writes about what has changed about...
Jon Krakauer writes about what has changed about climbing Mt. Everest since he wrote Into Thin Air. “The deadly hazards I wrote about attracted novice climbers to Everest like gamblers to a slot machine.”
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Luscious Hair Sculptures Sprout Like Branches in a Symbiotic Exhibition
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez's synthetic hair sculptures suspend from the ceiling and splay across the floor like organic growths.
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Aperiodic Table
Infants are dying because parents are opting-out of...
Infants are dying because parents are opting-out of vitamin K shots. “In the hopes of safeguarding their newborns from what they see as unnecessary medical intervention, they have shunned fundamental and scientifically sound pharmaceutical intervention.”