The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
Hello everyone!
“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.”
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
The street becomes a stage.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it to a dark bar to test the cameras. And she really, really missed Face ID. I don’t know how she makes these videos in just a week, along with all the actual testing. So good.
We rank our complaints (and praise) in different order, but overall her take jibes with mine on every single point. You can read a version of her review, too, if you’re a subscriber to The New Things, which you should be.
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Longreads
• Longreads
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible and sometimes spooky stories. In this episode, reporter Sam O’Brien takes us to Lily Dale, the world’s largest surviving community of spiritualists, where she learns (even if you don’t believe in ghosts) there’s more than one way to connect with the dead.
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“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing ‘hp’ in the context of ‘not being at full hp’ ‘applying your full hp to a task’ etc.” But it’s not hit/health points…
An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the Internet Archive. “Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.”
DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)
OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat:
The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it.
Tags: music, ai, generative-ai, pelican-riding-a-bicycle
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.'
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