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Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’

glass.photo/highlights/remembering-om

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden la...

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John Gruber

Matt Mullenweg: ‘All Roads Lead to Om’

ma.tt/2026/06/om-forever/

Matt Mullenweg: Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just ...

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John Gruber

The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’

nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/om-malik-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.AyPT.p7GhDrDcJSfa

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism start-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard and Inside.com. He was among...

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Fishing Boat

Asturias, June 2026.

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PuffPal, an App for Accessing Cannabis Clubs, Leaked 1 Million Users’ Passports

theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjdjV0Y5TTBuM0ciLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTQ3MTU3L3Bhc3Nwb3J0cy1kYXRhLWJyZWFjaC1jYW5uYWJpcy1jbHViLXN5c3RlbXMtbmVmb3MtcHVmZnBhbCIsImV4cCI6MTc4MzA5NDY0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzgyNjYyNjQ2fQ.7SjX6B8AAGhzsdrtD5asJWBwzQvTDUD31hWte7K1oec

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): If you’ve visited a cannabis club in Spain, [Sammy] Azdoufal says, chances are your photo ID was among them — and possibly your phone number, address, your favorite strains of cannabis, and how much you consumed each mon...

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To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP.

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Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web, and social media places limits on what writers can write. That's where the literate social web went, and the bloggers too. Like how birds are really dinosaurs.

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If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound RSS, I'd like to help, so our products can interop beautifully. That's the reason I'm doing this work, to establish a baseline for interop in the social web. RSS is the obvious candidate. If we didn't have it, we'd have to invent it. I'd much prefer doing the work openly, so if you can, write a post and send me a link. I think it's time for us to go back to the way we built network systems before Google and the VCs took over. Put up an app and see who works with it. My email address is on the About page on my blog.

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Programming tip. If your app has globals, create an object called globals, and put all of them in there. Someday you may want to swap in one set of globals for another, this makes it easy.

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Mark Zuckerberg Makes Another Sartorial Pivot

Max Read: But times change, and so too does a man’s fashion. Zuck still shows up in photos in his boxy heavyweight tees, but he’s begun to rotate in—and even favor—soft, textured, lifelessly tasteful polos like the heather gray number above, or the long-sleeve taupe Prada joint he wore buttoned to the top at the […]⌥ Permalink

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John Gruber

Micron Executive Sumit Sadana Tells Tim Cook to Stop Hitting Himself

wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99?st=B1aQCP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

From the bottom of Rolfe Winkler’s report for The Wall Street Journal Thursday, on Apple’s unprecedented price increases (gift link): Apple’s price hikes arrived the day after Micron Technology, the big American maker of memory and storage, reported blowout quarterly ear...

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★ Bernie Sanders: Ideologue and Economic Ignoramus

Sanders’s tweet is better punctuated and capitalized, but it’s the same argument as Trump’s. Zero economic sense, 100 percent ideological wishful thinking.

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Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022

warner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warner-rubio-urge-dni-to-review-risk-chinese-chipmaker-ymtc-presents-to-national-security/

From a September 2022 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, co-signed by Marco Rubio (then a Republican senator from Florida, currently secretary of state) and Mark Warner (Democratic senator from Virginia): We write to convey our extreme concern...

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Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup

news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/25/xbox-console-price-update/

Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. Last October, we increased XBOX console pri...

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FT Reports That Apple Is Lobbying to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Company CXMT

ft.com/content/d72a25e2-7bde-4aa9-bd8d-0c4f3d6cb2cb

Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, alas): Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese company that the Pentagon has put on a blacklist because of alleged connections t...

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John Gruber

Grok Is a Generative Porno App

theinformation.com/articles/xai-bets-groks-racy-side?rc=jfy0lk

Grace Kay and Theo Wayt, writing for the paywalled-with-no-gift-links The Information: xAI launched an upgraded video model last week, highlighting how it’s pushing ahead with its own visual efforts even as it brings in outside help to compete with rivals in areas like c...

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OpenAI Announces, But Is Blocked From Releasing, New GPT-5.6 Models

openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

OpenAI yesterday: We’re beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2× cheaper and Luna brings stron...

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White House Grants Access to Anthropic’s Mythos Model to 100+ U.S. Institutions; Fable Still Shut Down

semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companies

Reed Albergotti and Ben Smith, reporting last night for Semaphor: The decision, in a letter sent Friday afternoon to Anthropic, is a major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump Administration and one of the world’s most valuable private companies. Two week...

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The Steam Machine

theverge.com/games/952765/steam-machine-review?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Illsb3pPdVlCSmQiLCJwIjoiL2dhbWVzLzk1Mjc2NS9zdGVhbS1tYWNoaW5lLXJldmlldyIsImV4cCI6MTc4MzAxOTM4OCwiaWF0IjoxNzgyNTg3Mzg4fQ.ksUd5qynurLxKTvjnCTD3mj4xzH9gdFgqAzFJ577ZcE&utm_medium=gift-link

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): Since the Magnavox Odyssey came out in 1972, game consoles have been built with the same basic goal: to effortlessly play proprietary games on a TV screen. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have spent decades essentially sel...

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Claude can understand code no human could. Ever, under any circumstances. Just like a compiler can understand any code we throw at it. Way beyond what code obfuscation tools can do.