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"The country’s legendary main street celebrates its centennial against the backdrop of the nation’s 250th birthday. Could there be a better time for a road trip?"

In this edition:

• A pair of aces
• Room for growth
• Still a-maze-ing
• Wheel of misfortune
• The road less traveled

This museum in John Day, Oregon, was once a Chinese general store and medicine shop that dates back to the 1800s. But these days it’s a perfectly preserved time capsule, down to the fruit – down to the orange its former owner left on the counter in the 1950s. Tours of the shop are offered seasonally, but you can get a virtual look inside here.  READ MORE IN THE ATLAS HERE

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From Hell Month rolls on with a visit to Rock Harbor, Maine, where little Henry is up to no good! The guys revisit the 1993 psychological thriller ‘The Good Son,’ starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

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AI and Liability

Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews:

AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. [...]

To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI in those same circumstances would be a massive handout to companies, and would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior. Why hire human writers, lawyers or doctors when AIs are not only cheaper, but also absolve employers whenever they make a mistake?

Tags: bruce-schneier, google, law, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics, hallucinations

Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2

An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27, inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette versions. It's now datasette>=1.0a27 instead.

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On the eve of WWDC, in a post arguing that “SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps”, I wrote about an atrocious bug in Apple’s Journal app: If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then ...

Some quick thoughts on the hardware prices Apple increased — and didn’t increase — today. Here’s a table with most of the base models whose prices increased: Original New Change Vision Pro $3500 $3700 6% HomePod $300 $350 17% HomePod Mini $100 $130 30% Apple T...

Sad news: long-time tech journalist, blogger, and entrepreneur Om Malik passed away yesterday aged 59.

"Please don't let me die alone."

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Heartbreaking news, shared by Om’s family:

Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.

We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and tagging his accounts on X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn.

Om kept this battle very private, so this news comes as a terrible surprise for many, and an incomprehensible gut punch for everyone who knew and loved him. Rest in peace, my friend.

So it goes.

Link: om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

In this interview, singer/songwriter Sean Ono Lennon stops by the studio to hang out and play guitar. We talk about his journey as an artist, his collaboration with Les Claypool, and how his creative process has been informed by his parents Yoko Ono and John Lennon. My Bea...

“Although fleeting, [sports] have the enduring power to inspire. For a few moments or a few days, divisions crumble, replaced by the beauty of kinship.”

Full podcast on the @MythfitsPod channel!

Deep dive: An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt.

Good god, The Complete Kubrick from Criterion.

Collected here for the first time are Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered; over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials; and deluxe packaging illustrated with rare photographs, artwork, and documents annotated by Kubrick himself, all housed in a singular box inspired by the director’s legendary archive.

Altogether it’s 30 discs, $480 if you pre-order, and it’ll be out in mid-October.

P.S. While it’s not a fancypants box set, the KDO tag page for Stanley Kubrick functions pretty well as “DVD extras” — and it’s free. (via df)

Tags: Criterion Collection · movies · Stanley Kubrick · video

"One remote highway in Nevada links far-flung communities that attracted settlers for generations. Why are some still drawn there today?"

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): The company briefly took down its Apple Online Store early this morning as it typically does when announcing new products. When it came back online, the price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15% to 20%...