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John Gruber

Ultra-Wide 0.5× Lenses Have Utility Beyond ‘Photography’

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Some follow-up thoughts on my earlier piece, regarding the second-gen iPhone Air’s additional camera lens being a 0.5× ultra-wide, not a 3× or 4× telephoto: Ultimately, it’s the fact that I use my 0.5× lens not so much for photography but for scanning documents and notes, a...

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Marcin Wichary is absolutely correct: Paste And Match Style solves one problem whole creating others.

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John Gruber

Apple Is Going to Raise Device Prices — but When?

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Speaking of Mark Gurman, in the wake of Tim Cook’s unprecedented interview with the WSJ to warn that Apple is going to raise prices in response to the steep rise in RAM and SSD prices, he tweeted (XCancel link): Regarding Apple price hikes, have to imagine these are fair...

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John Gruber

Gurman Says Second-Gen iPhone Air, Coming in Early 2027, Will Sport a 0.5× Ultra-Wide Second Camera

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Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Current prototypes of the new model, code-named V62, ad...

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John Gruber

Criterion Collection: The Complete Kubrick

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30-disc set includes:

  • 4K restorations of Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered
  • Over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials
    • Kubrick’s international version of The Shining
  • A new 4K restoration of Vivian Kubrick’s behind-the-scenes documentary Making “The Shining”
  • Newly recorded commentary tracks featuring filmmaker Lee Unkrich (editor of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”) and author Michael Benson (Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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• Adrian Vila

Chapel of the Sea, III

Galicia, May 2026.

From the video I waited 8 years to make this photograph.

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• Austin Kleon

In a (summer) funk

Every Friday night around 5PM, before I’m about to make our pizza night martinis, I turn on KUTX and listen to “Old School Dance Party” — the “Happy Feet Dance Party with ever-lovin’ John E. Dee playing the music that got you in trouble.”  (More recently, Confucius Jones has been taking over as host.) One […]

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• Nick Heer

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks

Michael H. Keller, Eli Murray, Danielle Ivory, and Irineo Cabreros, New York Times (gift link): The surge in pedestrian deaths has baffled researchers. Most other wealthy countries haven’t seen similar increases, suggesting that possible culprits like smartphones don’t tell the whole story. Other likely causes of deadly crashes, such as drunken and distracted driving, have […]⌥ Permalink

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John Gruber

Dickover of the Week: The Observer

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Bharat Iyer: Let’s be real … if The Observer actually cared at all about your privacy, they wouldn’t share your personal data with ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE FUCKING PARTNERS. [...] Imagine if, upon purchasing a copy of the Sunday newspaper in 1791, you were followed aro...

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Austria v. Australia! HItler’s birthplace v. the country where he currently lives in peaceful retirement. ⚽️

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Finished reading: Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape by Nicola Moorby. A wonderful book, especially fine on how each painter was moved by rivers: Turner the great Thames, Constable the humble Stour. Now I’m desperate to get back to London to see their paintings again with fresh eyes. 📚

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And here is another short film, shot two years later, featuring Dorothy L. Sayers and the cast of her wonderful play The Zeal of Thy House — take a look at the wings on those angels. (At the end there is footage from her far less successful play The Devil to Play.) I don’t know that there is any other film of Sayers and Eliot from that era.

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Louis CK: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

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People who reinvent RSS often say they did it because it was missing a feature they needed. But it specifically supports extension via namespaces so you can build on existing standard. They're really easy to do, increases interop, you might work with other products right out of the box, and save time for other who want to be compatible with you. People should study the internet, how it developed, ts philosophy, before they go off and try to re-create it, it rarely works. What's the point?

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Bluesky: "If Obama had called McConnell’s bluff on the Garland nomination, the court would be 5-4 instead of 6-3. And if RBG had stepped down, it would’ve been 5-4 in favor of Dems.

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Here is an amateur film from 1935, shot at Canterbury Cathedral, featuring T. S. Eliot and some of the cast of Murder in the Cathedral (including Robert Speight, who played Becket — and then later voiced Jesus in the original production of Sayers’s The Man Born to Be King).

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Finished reading Book of the Dead

Finished reading: Kay Scarpetta series, book 15. Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell. Published 2007. 511 pages. Started June 20, 2026; completed June 21, 2026. Posted: June 22, 2026 at 12:12 AM UTC. Tagged: crime, mystery, thriller.

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Finished reading Predator

Finished reading: Kay Scarpetta series, book 14. Predator by Patricia Cornwell. Published 2005. 453 pages. Started June 19, 2026; completed June 20, 2026. Posted: June 21, 2026 at 1:25 AM UTC. Tagged: crime, mystery, thriller.

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Note published on June 19, 2026 at 3:36 PM UTC

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary

via Reddit

A Sankey diagram showing how votes from Troy Jackson, Shenna Bellows, and Angus King III contributed to Hannah Pingree’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary for the gubernatorial race, even though Nirav Shah had more votes than Pingree in the first round of voting
Also posted to: Mastodon, Bluesky
Tagged: Maine, politics.

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Braintrust query: Do you have a copy of Radio UserLand that runs?