Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so unbelievably racist that it had to, on some level, be purposely done by someone in the decision chain and everyone else was like, “seems ok to me”.
Longreads
• Wilbert L. Cooper
Black and Blue in Cleveland

24.08.2026
‘Apollo 13’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Rob Mahoney
If they could get a washing machine to fly, Bill, Amanda, and Rob could record a pod about it. We head to Houston to rewatch Ron Howard’s ‘Apollo 13,’ starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon.
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocamp, and Matt Pevic
LIONSGATE’S MUTINY, STARRING JASON STATHAM, ONLY IN THEATERS AUGUST 21
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Sailing Stones
For decades, the sailing stones of Death Valley were a mystery. They'd show up in lists of the world's unexplained phenomena, alongside the Bermuda Triangle and ball lightning. But then, two cousins came along and decided to ruin everything by solving this mystery once and for all.
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Highway Signs
Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
[Sponsor] Finalist 4: Inspired by Paper Day Planners
Finalist 4 is the biggest update yet to the paper-inspired day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now Apple Watch. The headline is Notes, in the app or as a folder of Markdown files that round-trips with Obsidian. Tasks in those files land on the right day, next to your reminders and events, even inside the macOS menu bar app.
The rebuilt Timeline lets you pencil tasks into your day, and Apple Pencil gets special powers to sketch the plan in seconds.
There’s tons more, brewed over four months with 1,000 beta testers. Try it free on the App Store.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Rethinks Plan to Merge ‘Hide My Email’ Domain Name With ‘Sign In With Apple’
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ What Is the Point of the DMA?
“If you build it…” #baseball
Colossal
• Joy Machine
At Joy Machine, Emmy Star Brown and Danym Kwon Revel in Memory and Childlike Wonder
'The Peace of Wild Things' is a harmonic dialogue about the ways experiences linger long after a moment has passed.
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The Truth About the Bezelless Concept Phone
This TECNO 0mm "borderless" concept phone actually has some interesting quirks
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llm-anthropic 0.27
Release: llm-anthropic 0.27
This release mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2. OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two weeks ago.
Anthropic provide this migration guide for upgrading to 1.0, so I prompted Fable 5 in Claude Code with:
Upgrade to anthropic>=1 - read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/refs/heads/main/MIGRATION.md and get the tests passing
Here's the resulting PR.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine
"While Melon lay dying under my bed, I contacted the Facebook group."
Billy Joel Talks About "And So It Goes" #billyjoel #songwriting #shorts
Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field...
Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers. So metal! 🤘
Everything I Thought I Knew About The Black Crowes Was WRONG
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Europe’s Carousels Eternally Whirl in Luca Battaglia’s Nostalgic Photos
'Ticket non remboursable' takes a spin down memory lane.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
BitCam: The 1-Bit Camera App Turns 2.0
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
