“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at least as bad as it was 30 years ago. In most counties, it’s much worse.” It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter. (Not a fan of articles like this being in the “opinion” section…)
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Ever imagined a pear or an apple with a personality?
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 Say Hello to PÉPET, a Pear-Shaped, Palm-Size Paper Pal appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Longreads
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases
Today we're releasing two new security patch versions of Datasette: 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 - one for the current alpha series and one for the stable 0.65.x family.These are security fixes which you should apply if you are running a Datasette instance on the public web - in particular if that instance mixes both public and private tables.
Following issues reported by Sevban Dönmez, Alex Garcia and I ran an extensive audit of Datasette using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6, and GPT-6 Astra. We then spent almost a week collaborating on and reviewing the fixes.
They helped find some very subtle bugs. We'll be incorporating security audits by frontier models into all of our development work going forward.
Tags: releases, security, ai, datasette, generative-ai, llms, ai-security-research
VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.”
“Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces…” This is bonkers…letters made from Battleship pieces, Connect Four boards, playing cards, wooden railroad tracks, etc.
Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by setting up a little free library of VHS tapes & DVDs. “Take a movie, leave a movie.” Love this.
Gloria Steinem’s final essay, posthumously published by the New Yorker. “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come.”
TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in it (for cooling).
Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
9to5mac.com/2026/09/09/apple-confirms-macos-27-golden-gate-launch-date-september-14/
9to5 Mac has the iOS 27 release notes too. I haven’t spent much time using Golden Gate, but I’ve been using iOS 27 full-time ever since WWDC. It’s in excellent shape for a .0 release.
Now I need to think about how long I want to still hang onto MacOS 15 Sequoia on my main Mac. I’ll probably skip 27.0 and wait for 27.1, but maybe I’ll bite the bullet and upgrade when a 27.0.1 update comes out.
Link: 9to5mac.com/2026/09/09/apple-confirms-macos-27-golden-gate…
Sponsored by:
Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
One thing I learned from this video is that I’m way, way too careful when playing with the hands-on area demo units. I handle them like museum pieces; Stern treats them like hot dog buns.
Link: youtu.be/VNzl-q0EGfg
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
For Anna Ortiz, the jaguar is a fitting metaphor for entering into a mythic borderland.
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 Anna Ortiz Traverses the Multiple Realities of the Borderlands appeared first on Colossal.
