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Alexandr Wang: ‘Why I’m Building Muse’

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Alexandr Wang, blogging on X: Now imagine every person on earth with a second mind beyond their own. A general manager whose whole job is to find out what you want and make sure it happens. Someone that hears the half-sentence, “I feel like there’s something more I could...

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The Sheryl Crow Interview

In this episode I sit down with iconic artist Sheryl Crow to deep dive into her legendary career, songwriting process, and the mechanics behind some of her biggest hits. The interview includes 3 live performances! My Beato Club supporters: Justin Scott Terence Mark Jason Mu...

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Apple’s Other Recent ‘Duo’

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I keep mentioning Apple’s 1992 groundbreaking PowerBook Duo series as a precedent for the iPhone Duo’s name. But of course in 2020, Apple released the MagSafe Duo Charger, a wonderful Lightning peripheral for charging an iPhone and Apple Watch at the same time. It even folde...

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International Standard Paper Sizes

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Markus Kuhn: In the ISO paper size system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of two (1.4142 : 1). In other words, the width and the height of a page relate to each other like the side and the diagonal of a square. This aspect ratio is especially c...

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Microsoft Took the ‘Copilot+ PC’ Brand Out Behind the Shed

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Zac Bowden, Windows Central: In 2024, Microsoft and Qualcomm kicked off a new category of Windows hardware it called “Copilot+ PCs” that set the baseline for a new wave of AI-first computers, and launched with exclusive features that would not be made available on PCs th...

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The Talk Show: ‘I’m Thinking X, Not X’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/09/25/ep-455

Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4.

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Humans Can Regrow an Organ

Every month, the uterus builds an entire new layer of tissue, prepares it for a possible pregnancy, then starts all over again. Billions of people experience this cycle, yet there’s still a surprising amount we don’t understand about it. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesag...

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New feeds overview pages

The overview pages of the “Subscriptions” and “Feeds” pages for each timeline got an overhaul: they are a little cleaner, show the date a feed was last updated, and you can now sort them by “Last updated” (the default), “Subscribed” and “Title”.

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Is Alton, Illinois America's Most Haunted Small Town?

Alton, Illinois has been called the most haunted small town in America. It’s a place where practically every building has its own ghost story, from an old penitentiary, an eroding island, and even an old 1920s resort. And bubbling underneath all this lore is the fascinating ...

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Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way

Explanation: On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor trail was captured next to the central Milky Way, whose dark interstellar dust clou...

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Mr. Choyka Is Apparently Doing Well

usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2020/02/02/golf-amateur-gary-choyka-sinks-two-holes-one-same-round/4639969002/

A reader asked if this Gary Choyka who hit two holes-in-one in the same round of golf back in 2020 is the same Gary Choyka who was my history teacher 30+ years ago. Indeed it is. He looks good. (He was a hell of a basketball player too.)

Link: usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2020/02/02/golf-amateur-gary…

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How Noble & Cooley snares are made #drums #drummer #shorts

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What do you you do when the book you’re reading is too...

What do you you do when the book you’re reading is too large to carry around? “I would like to recommend you to a practice I call Chop That Book Up Into Reasonable Sizes.”

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Stock UI in MacOS 27 Eschews Clarity

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“Thibault”, in post on Mastodon responding to Brent Simmons’s “stock Mac UI” post that I just linked to: It reminded me of my own explorations with the macOS design language, especially the modern title/toolbar which I believe is one of the most foundational design regre...

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Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser...

Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser trailer for Madden, starring Nicolas Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. Boom?

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Brent Simmons on ‘Stock’ Mac UI

inessential.com/2026/09/22/that-about-wraps-it-up-for.html

Brent Simmons: To recap: the reasons for using stock Mac UI are 1) user familiarity, which we’ve known for a while just isn’t a thing, and 2) hoping to be able to expend less developer effort, which we’ve seen can work against you. But there’s another reason: the stock ...

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What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with...

What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with some very astounding numbers. If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” And it could last months?

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Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s...

Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s upcoming album, While the Flood Rages, which will be available wherever you stream your music on Oct 16.

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On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community

On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a CommunityHarriet Mena Hill is devoted to documenting a community amid demolition.

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 On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community appeared first on Colossal.

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★ I’ll Wait

It’s Friday, and Muse is still the #1 app in the iOS App Store — that’s a full week in the top spot. Who knows if it’s a flash in the pan or not. (Remember Clubhouse? Sora?) But at the moment it’s clearly a hit. It certainly helps that Meta itself is promoting Muse heavily o...