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Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why. The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+Java...

Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0

This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system.

Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instances finely grained control over who can access which resources within Datasette.

Tags: datasette, alex-garcia

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought. “It is a well-known feature of civil society that nervous middle managers often act far more radically than top executives out of a sense of self-preservation.”

In this episode, I follow up on a few of my predictions about AI from my recent video: "How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry"

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Jonathan Wentworth-Linton
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MATTHEW KARIS
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Danny Kurywchak
Gregory Reedy
Sean Coleman
Alexander Verbitskiy
CL Turner
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John Fulford
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Reto Spoerli
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Jon Beezley
Peter DeVault
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Rich Germano
Brian Bloom
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Toby Guidry

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown. “This is absolutely crazy. It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”

As the World Cup gets underway here in the Americas, here’s a look back at a football battle for the ages: Germany vs. Greece in The Philosophers’ Football Match. Germany’s lineup included Nietzsche , Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Marx while the likes of Plato, Socrates, Sophocles, and Archimedes took the field for Greece.

Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant — via the categorical imperative — is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.

(thx, meg)

Tags: Monty Python · remix · soccer · sports · video

Usually when I link to a new app, it’s something that I find useful personally. Cotypist is something else. It’s an AI-powered autocomplete utility for the Mac, using on-device models and processing, by developer Daniel Gräfe of Accelerated Thought. It is very well-designed,...

“The prevailing emotions among scientists right now are rage and shock.” U.S. Science Is in Chaos. “This compact that has existed since World War II, that made the U.S. the successful, prosperous nation that it is, is being dismantled.”

The Founding Story Behind Japan’s Oldest Whisky Maker. “Success in the Japanese market required a lighter, more delicate flavor profile than Western spirits typically offered.” And so Suntory was born.

The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July.

Twice in the Earth’s history, massive ranges of supermountains have formed on ancient continents. Studies like these point to something we do know for sure: from the highest peaks to the smallest cells, geology and biology are deeply intertwined. And while it’s often said...

"An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty."

Due to FIFA’s poor security practices, this guy stumbled into their wide-open broadcast portal w/ full access. “An attacker could have rickrolled the entire FIFA World Cup. Or played Subway Surfers gameplay. Live. On every TV network worldwide.”

Apple Developer: Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com. New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. For example: Sign...

Brent Simmons, writing at Inessential:

My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire.

A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding new rooms.

Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 commits in the past year.

NetNewsWire was already one of my favorite, most-used, most indispensable apps. Now it’s much better and improving steadily at a rapid clip. You love to see it.

Link: inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html

"For $100, I bought bric-a-brac that explains a nation."

"Britain's fishermen became the folk heroes of Brexit. In Brixham, they were promised a brighter future. Did it ever arrive?"

CNBC, two days ago: In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The $60 billion in class A common stock that SpaceX has agreed to ...

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a billion dollars against a backdrop “where a growing number of billionaires are lashing out against philanthropy”.