Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon d’Or. 100% the right choice — he had the best season of anyone. Like, almost ever.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
9to5mac.com/2026/10/26/apple-responds-to-reports-of-iphone-duos-inner-display-cracking/
A poignant short documentary about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back…
From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/why-notes-will-never-let-us-edit-markdown/
Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And, increasingly, ChatGPT is telling people that have normal tech support problems that they have discovered something journalistically notable and that 404 Media, specifically, can help them.
— Jason Koebler, ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
Tags: jason-koebler, openai, journalism, ai, llms, ai-ethics, ai-misuse, generative-ai, chatgpt, 404-media
Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family. I linked to Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
"Why writers are the perfect target."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The Portland-based artist's lush gradients are inspired by a love for oil painting.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness. “When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
