“Zugunruhe is a German term describing the restless, twitching urge migratory birds feel when caged — and the same primal restlessness humans feel when trapped.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Upgrade — New Program With Klarna for Leasing iPhones, Macs, iPads, and More for Near-Zero Interest
apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-upgrade-launches-in-the-united-states/
Apple Newsroom:
Apple today announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing
program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad
available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and
at Apple Store locations in the United States. Apple Upgrade make...
Some Interesting Apples
Something that still blows my mind is that every apple seed produces a new variety. Every single one.
This is a lovely short documentary about a project called Some Interesting Apples, which aims to find apples growing in unusual places (i.e. not commercial orchards but i...
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Highly unprofessional
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Pastebot 3
New from Tapbots: version 3 of their excellent clipboard manager for Mac. There are so many clipboard managers for the Mac. I run two other apps — Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar — that offer good clipboard managers as ancillary features. But for years now I’ve chosen to use ...
Participants in a recently published study spoke 28%...
Participants in a recently published study spoke 28% fewer words per day in 2019 than they did in 2005. (People are spending more time alone and more time digitally communicating.)
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Innovation Meets Heritage in West African Contemporary Artists’ Masquerade Ensembles
'New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations' celebrates contemporary creations by artists in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon.
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 Innovation Meets Heritage in West African Contemporary Artists’ Masquerade Ensembles appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Count Those Underscores
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/
Nate Anderson, reporting for Ars Technica under the headline “A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months”:
Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service
under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but
they accidentally ...
The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring...
The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan? Ok, I’m in.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘eBay’s Bizarre Cyberstalking Saga Ends With a $56 Million Settlement’
theverge.com/tech/972209/ebay-cyberstalking-harassment-settlement
Emma Roth, The Verge:
eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as
part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a
bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as
reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a
lengthy leg...
OnlyMarms: Funding Science Research on OnlyFans
This is an extremely 2026 story (derogatory): because of the Trump regime’s assualt on scientific funding, a group of scientists who has been studying marmot populations in Colorado since 1962 turned to OnlyFans to fund their research this year.
From The NY Times:
In Ju...
Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact...
Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact. “The impact would have produced an immense cloud of dust that superheated the upper atmosphere, charbroiling living organisms unable to take shelter and igniting widespread wildfires.”
Strombo about interviewing Robert Plant #strombo #robertplant #shorts
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?...
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? “Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns…”
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Beauty of a Stone Wall
"Why we love them, and why I build them."
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Hotel That Gave ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ Its Name
“Stockholm Syndrome” is a term in pop psychology that’s come to mean situations where hostages develop emotional bonds with their captors. But it comes from an actual hostage situation back in the 1970s, when a botched bank robbery in downtown Stockholm turned into a six-day long stand-off between the would-be robbers and police. Today, the bank is a hotel – and you can still see evidence of this incident inside.
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Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
The best part of this article (here's the repo) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES ("neither of these results has a practical impact on today’...
Quoting Akshat Bubna
We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed anyone on the internet to use their sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s platform or isolation were not compromised in anyway.
— Akshat Bubna, Modal's CTO, talking to Reuters about this incident
Tags: ai-security-research, openai, sandboxing, security, openai-hugging-face-incident
On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...
On the experience of the long haul flight. “The meal cart appears two hours in. You can hear it banging into passengers’ knees before you see it, and the sound causes the entire cabin to sit up slightly, like meerkats detecting motion on the savanna.”
uv 0.12.0
uv 0.12.0
Some interesting breaking changes in this release of uv, in particular to the default project produced by the uv init command.
uv init is the uv shortcut for creating a new project. The previous version of uv, version 0.11.x, produced this directory when you ran uv...