Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging with my friend Matt while he’s here in Tokyo for a trip, which he refers to as his “America is Cooked Tour” as he keeps running across things that are much better here.
Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge
Explanation: On sol 1943 of its journey of exploration across the surface of Mars, the Curiosity Rover recorded this selfie at the south rim of Vera Rubin Ridge. Of course a sol is a Martian solar day, about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Curiosity's sol 1943 correspon...
Accelerator Energies
Josh Homme on QOTSA guitar tuning #guitar #joshhomme #shorts
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock. “The group managed to connect the hideaway to the electricity grid and install a computer…” Wild!
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok
Apple Developer News, in a post titled “Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS”:
We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities
into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls
designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access larg...
Xiaomi 18 Fold: How Does This Happen?
This is not an iPhone Duo. Xiaomi is at it again.
The desk pad! https://mkbhd.com/products/overlay-deskpad
Shoutout to dbrand for helping to source the phone from China.
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Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.
Josh Homme: The Architect Of Desert Rock
In this interview, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme stops by the studio. Josh talks about his Desert Rock origins, his approach to songwriting and he also demonstrates how he gets his signature guitar tone.
My Beato Club supporters:
Justin Scott
Terence Mark
Jas...
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
Gaia Alari’s Lilting Animations are Drawn Frame by Frame
Meandering botanical forms, gestural dancing, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops.
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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
Last week, the NY Times dropped a list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, as picked by a panel of “more than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV”. The rankings have already been dissected online six ways from Sunday, but...
Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you shouldn’t make. Cholera remedy recipe calls for “equal parts laudanum, rhubarb, double-strength capsicum, camphor and spirits of nitre”.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
"The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried."
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Tomás Saraceno Returns to the Past to Envision a More Just Future
In Munich, Saraceno's ecological and collaborative projects take center stage for a sweeping presentation titled 'Ancestral Futures.'
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So Many Amazing Control Rooms
From the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over.
See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966), and Lots and Lots of Control Panels.
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The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?” “Why, that’s the Battle of Legitimate Concerns!”
“Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
“Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining whatever’s ‘cool’ until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die…” 🎯
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• Kate Mothes
Wild Hijinx and Hilarious Happenstance Reign in the 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards
The competition welcomed its largest ever number of entries this year from photographers in 112 countries.
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Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
In this video, Patrick Hicks tells the story of the development of the classic educational video game The Oregon Trail and how Prince (you know, the genius musical artist) was one of the first people in the world to play the very first version of the game.
The basic story...