How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...
Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites. “Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.”
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Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
Death by a Thousand Dams
"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."
Longreads
• Longreads
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven

A Year of Sunspots
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Pumpkin Patches and Haunted Hotels: An Autumnal Mailbag
Kelly, Jerome, and Amanda answer some questions from a very autumnal mailbag – from visiting the LA version of a classic pumpkin patch (80 degrees, full sun, in a parking lot) to the best ways to get some chills and thrills ahead of Halloween.
Places mentioned in this episode:
- The LA Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
- Paranormal Activity on Broadway, NYC
- Loved To Death Oddities, San Francisco, CA
- The Griswold Inn, Essex, CT
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‘It Follows’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Joanna Robinson
Bill, Chris, and Jo wake up handcuffed to a wheelchair and must rewatch the 2014 horror classic ‘It Follows’ before the entity finds them.
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Barack Obama on the Trump Administration’s Intimidation Campaign Against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
From the DF Archive: Should a CEO Be a Nerd About Their Company’s Products?
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Event, in Los Angeles, Next Week: ‘Pro and Tell’
Greg Joswiak, on X:
Can’t wait to pro and tell next week.
Rumors suggest Apple is planning to debut the new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen display, an M6 entry-level MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, an iPad mini with an OLED display.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ Estimated Arrival Dates for DF Readers’ Pre-Ordered iPhone Duos
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Netflix Shitcanned Film Chief Dan Lin Too
18.10.2026
Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...
Do you believe in life after death? This is a great interactive piece by Alvin Chang about people’s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’
Merchant's fable-like narratives tap into our anxieties around the environment by conjuring instead a kind of utopia.
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14.10.2026