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How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-gener...

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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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Death by a Thousand Dams

"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven

He wrote the book on how the military shapes masculine identity. He'll also tell you about Disney adults, Pharaoh Sanders, and his favorite spot for a burger and negroni.

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A Year of Sunspots

Explanation: This is an unusual rainbow. For one thing, the rainbow is not complete, appearing only in a sunlit fan -- but that by itself is not very unusual. What is most unusual is the fake location of the Sun. The Sun appears to be toward the front, ju...

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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.

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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. 

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My obituary for programming

My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little log...

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Barack Obama on the Trump Administration’s Intimidation Campaign Against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

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Barack Obama, in a 430-word essay: It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoma...

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From the DF Archive: Should a CEO Be a Nerd About Their Company’s Products?

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Back in 2022, I quoted from an interesting post by Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time, where he wrote: I’ve had the opportunity to interact with quite a few senior airline executives over the years, and I find that their knowledge about competitors is typically one extr...

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Apple Event, in Los Angeles, Next Week: ‘Pro and Tell’

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Greg Joswiak, on X:

Can’t wait to pro and tell next week.

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

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.

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★ Estimated Arrival Dates for DF Readers’ Pre-Ordered iPhone Duos

Yesterday I posted the same question to my followers on X, Threads, and Mastodon:1 Poll, only for people who have pre-ordered a Duo. When is your delivery/pickup date? October November December January The results were interesting; I’m glad I asked. X Threads...

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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.

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Netflix Shitcanned Film Chief Dan Lin Too

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Anthony D’Alessandro, reporting for Deadline: Dan Lin is out as film boss at Netflix in a move that has been largely speculated for weeks. Insiders at the streamer have denied that Lin and even Bela Bajaria were on the chopping block, but here we are. Lin is meeting wit...

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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.

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Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’

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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