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Daring Fireball
29 Oct 04:09 • John Gruber

Steven Levy on the New MacBook Pro, With, Yes, a Touchscreen

wired.com/story/the-inside-story-of-why-apple-finally-brought-a-touch-display-to-the-mac/

Steven Levy, writing at Wired with the scoop on the new MacBook Pros (News+ link): This turnaround is a big deal to Apple fans. Ternus shrugs off the drama. “The Mac is first and foremost an indirect input device, built around the trackpad and keyboard. But I think there...

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
04:06 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

10,000 Dead Bodies Beneath a NYC Park

The James J Walker Park is a local New York City park in Greenwich Village. But what people might not know is that there are 10,000 dead bodies buried underground. In today’s episode, writer and tour guide Christina Ray Stanton tells us how a cemetery becomes a park, reveals some of the disturbing things that’ve happened there and gives us the story of the man who made sure we remember it all.

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kottke.org
03:24 • Jason Kottke

Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed...

Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed he has a two-hour interview with Elizabeth Holmes that he’s considering releasing. “Did I have any reason to believe that she was a fraud? I did not. Did that change as time went on? It did.”

xkcd.com
02:42

Gravitational Square Wave

Depending on the energy deposition I can manage, it might also be a fun prank on the rest of the Earth.

kottke.org
02:33 • Jason Kottke

Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out:...

Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out: “Kevin Bacon is not the center of Hollywood. In fact, he never has been, and almost certainly never will be.”

Simon Willison's Weblog
00:51

Quoting Ted Sanders

In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a single vari...

Colossal
20:18 • Grace Ebert

Found Object Masks by Romuald Hazoumè Counter Sorrow with Sympathy

Romuald Hazoumé encircles plastic jugs with feathers, netting, paintbrushes, and other found materials.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Found Object Masks by Romuald Hazoumè Counter Sorrow with Sympathy appeared first on Colossal.

kottke.org
19:03 • Jason Kottke

A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...

A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year, including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sister’s blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.

kottke.org
18:24 • Jason Kottke

The Moving Image Archive

The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricat...

Simon Willison's Weblog
18:00

GitHub Octoverse 2026

GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the imp...

Rick Beato
17:49

Sheryl Crow beautiful acoustic version of “My Favorite Mistake”

kottke.org
17:00 • Jason Kottke

It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...

It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”

Work Chronicles
16:30 • Work Chronicles

(comic) Sprint Review

kottke.org
16:15 • Jason Kottke

Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...

Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)

kottke.org
15:15 • Jason Kottke

Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed

I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turns out to be really fascinating. For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patient Z...

Colossal
15:12 • Grace Ebert

A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral

Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral appeared first on Colossal.

Daring Fireball
28 Oct 15:00 • John Gruber

Guessing the Name: MacBook Studio?

macrumors.com/2026/10/28/macbook-studio/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...] Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selected tech reporters and ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
14:12

The October inflection point for vibe game development

I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've reached a new in...

kottke.org
13:57 • Jason Kottke

They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...

They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.

kottke.org
12:57 • Jason Kottke

Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...

Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods. “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.