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Semiquincentennial Blues

"I am yearning to reject something that is not even being sold to me."

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Nothing Phone 4b: They Can't Say It!

They won't tell us what the b stands for, but...

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My Almond Archive

A hand-drawn image of an almond tree is overlaid with a watercolor painting of an almond branch in blossom. To the right is a series of written observations on almonds, from the linguistic to the symbolic
In southeastern Italy, almond groves hold centuries of local history. A granddaughter returns to gather the bitter and the sweet.

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AO Mailbag: Would You Rather…

Co-host Kelly McEvers and producers Johanna and Amanda answer a fun hypothetical, and a classic would-you-rather question. 

If you have a question for our next mailbag episode, give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at Hello@AtlasObscura.com, or simply email your question.


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‘Ali’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

The Rewatchables ain't easy. The Rewatchables is real. And real… is a mother-fucker. Bill, Chris, and Van revisit Michael Mann’s 2001 film ‘Ali’ starring Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Voight.

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

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tencent/Hy3

tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April, we gathered fe...

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699: Not the Correct Squircle

Pre-show: Casey’s oops Magic TrackPad Magic Keyboard Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Follow-up: Casey may have fixed his notification problem! Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon) RAMAgeddon Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have sa...

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Offside

The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(

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★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’

Paul Kafasis, in a post at Rogue Amoeba’s blog titled “Free the Icons”: Apple’s prohibition on shapes is a step backward for both usability and creativity in app icons. Icons are now harder to distinguish because they’re no longer allowed to be distinctive. But there’s n...

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America’s Greatest Hot Dog

"The price and quality of the $1.50 Costco frank haven’t budged in 40 years. It’s the last—and best—deal in the country."

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Markdown Now Has a Uniform Type Identifer (UTI) in Apple’s Version 27 OSes

developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/markdown

The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data:

The identifier for this type is net.daringfireball.markdown.

This type conforms to [utf8PlainText].

My main link here is to the Swift documentation, but it’s available in good old Objective-C too.

I had previously recommended conforming to public.plain-text but stated that the text encoding should be UTF-8. I’ve updated my own recommendation to public.utf8-plain-text to enshrine the UTF-8 encoding. (Back in 2004 UTF-8 support was far from universal. Today it is.)

Link: developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers…

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Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026...

Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026 Mixtape (4 hours long). Also available on Soundcloud.

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Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist

Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist769 photographers and astronomers submitted more than 4,000 images to this year's competition.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist appeared first on Colossal.

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Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”

If you are anything like me, your soul let out a big “oooooof” while reading this: The Year Is 2063 and You Were Never Interesting. But wait. You are 70 years old. You’re sitting in your home. Your grandchildren ask you what your 20s were like, and you honestly can’t tell ...

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Backblaze Versus Dropbox

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There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it backs up your entire computer, including the startup drive and external drives — and online file storage services lik...

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Veks Van Hillik Suspends Fish, Insects, and Other Objects in Surreal Murals

Veks Van Hillik Suspends Fish, Insects, and Other Objects in Surreal MuralsArt history and ecology merge in Van Hillik's bold, vaguely unsettling murals.

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How I Bought a Private Jet by Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media

"My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok."

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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’

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Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has lon...

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ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps

atp.fm/atp-dev-mac-assed-mac-apps

A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time. ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alone are worth the price.

They do a great job explaining what makes for a Mac-assed Mac app, but an even better job talking about why users and developers should care about them.

Link: atp.fm/atp-dev-mac-assed-mac-apps

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👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design...

👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design Matters. (I guess those eyes should be ears but an ears-bugging-out emoji doesn’t exist.)