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🎬 undertone

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Was actually quite well done with not much (effectively just one on-camera actor). But I found the plot too constructed and a little incoherent, which made it less spooky than it could’ve been.

Next event: The Haunted on July 24, 2026, 20:00 at Turock, Essen.

Rick Beato
04 Jul 06:48

Mike Elizondo on working with Avenged Sevenfold #guitar #guitarist #shorts

xkcd.com
04 Jul 03:15

Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400m already committed). They launched their Gap Map a couple of days ago - ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
03 Jul 22:21

Quoting Josh W. Comeau

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot of reasons fo...

Daring Fireball
03 Jul 21:45 • John Gruber

★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job

Anthropic released the first version of the Claude “desktop” app for MacOS in October 2024 — an Electron clunker that did not impress UI designers. When it came out, I wrote: ChatGPT’s native Mac app, on the other hand, is a truly native Mac app. It looks like a Mac app ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
03 Jul 18:54

Fable's judgement

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use their own judgement rather than dictating how they should work. The exampl...

Longreads
03 Jul 16:00 • Brendan Fitzgerald

Inside the Food Truck Mafia Wreaking Havoc Around the National Mall

"Turf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn."

Simon Willison's Weblog
03 Jul 15:48

June 2026 newsletter

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here.

This month:

Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export restrictions
GLM-5.2 is the new best open weights model
Tokenmaxxing is so over
Datasette Apps
sqlite-utils and shot-scraper and Datasette
Miscellaneous WASM projects
Other model releases
What I'm using

Here's a copy of the May newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!

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Radiolab
03 Jul 14:42 • WNYC Studios

Atomic Artifacts

Back in the 1950s, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, federal officials sat down and pondered what American life would actually look like after an atomic attack. They faced a slew of practical questions like: Who would count the dead and where would they build the re...

Longreads
03 Jul 11:15 • Carolyn Wells

Paradise Revisited

"What Darwin saw in the Galápagos."

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
03 Jul 04:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

The Wizard of Wamego (Classic)

The story of how a former nuclear missile silo in Wamego, Kansas became the site of the largest LSD bust in US history (allegedly). Fore more information, check out author Dennis McDougal’s website and Rolling Stone’s interview with Leonard Pickard.

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Rick Beato
02 Jul 23:27

The Internet Is Dead…And Nobody Cares

AI Is Killing Everything...And We Don't Care

In this episode, I look at the new wave of AI "creators" that are cannibalizing attention and resources away from real creators. It's time to do something but no one seems to care.

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

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 22:51 • John Gruber

April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’

ookla.com/articles/a-return-to-mmwave-5g

Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on releasing mid-band spect...

Simon Willison's Weblog
02 Jul 22:18

llm-coding-agent 0.1a0

Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Another Fable 5 experiment. Now that my LLM library has evolved into more of an agent framework it's time to see what a simple coding agent would look like built on it. I started a new Python library using my python-lib-template-reposi...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 22:00 • John Gruber

Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers

webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/

Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and mo...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 22:00 • John Gruber

EveryMac Turns 30

everymac.com/whatsnew/

EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support ...

Marques Brownlee
02 Jul 21:09

The Best Car I've Ever Driven: McLaren W1

I may never see this car again. But it's incredible.

For car videos: http://youtube.com/Autofocus

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Daring Fireball
02 Jul 20:42 • John Gruber

I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)

daringfireball.net/linked/2022/03/23/5g-battery-life

Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-ran similar tests on m...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 20:00 • John Gruber

Truth Social Is Still Just Trump’s Blog

daringfireball.net/2025/06/truth_social_is_just_trumps_blog

After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social other than Trump himself....