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Tesla started rolling out its 2026 Summer Update, and the automaker published the full release notes on X.

The headline additions: Grok can finally control more of the car, Caraoke now keeps score, navigation learns your routine, and several features move to the mobile app. Here’s every item in the release notes, with some context on each.

This episode follows on from the episode on the GTOs. These two make up two parts of a three-part story, and I’m hoping to have part three, on Captain Beefheart, up before the end of the month.

This episode is on “Peaches En Regalia” by Frank Zappa. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a fifty-five-minute bonus episode available, on “Song to the Siren” by Tim Buckley.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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Some of you will have seen me talk in the past about a site called The Daily Tism, a satirical news site by and for autistic people which is run by some friends of mine, and which I’ve written the odd piece for. (Perhaps you haven’t, in which case I’ll say again now, if you’...

This episode took longer than normal to come up because, as you’ll see from the episode itself, I’m releasing it simultaneously with the next episode, on Frank Zappa. These two make up two parts of a three-part story, and I’m hoping to have part three, on Captain Beefheart, ...

Mission Impossible. Oppenheimer. F1. The Odyssey. Top Gun: Maverick. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inception. Dune. Filmmakers and studios who make movies like these love to emphasize their heavy use of practical effects, i.e. real cars jumping real bridges or real people hanging off ...

Kaitlyn Chen and Janelle Salaun are anchoring the WNBA’s most productive bench and Golden State enters the All-Star break at 19-8.

You mourn the sites where the domain expired, or the DNS is unset, or hasn't been updated in a while, and keep some around so that you can leaf through them (virtually) for nostalgia’s sake, and remove others because you can finally let go of them.

You periodically back up the OPML file of the feeds you subscribe to, just in case you need to switch aggregators or the service suddenly goes defunct.

Speaking of RSS feeds, you periodically go through all of the feeds in your aggregator and see if they are broken, right? And if they are, you update the URLs or just unsubscribe from them, I assume. And if you know what's wrong with an RSS feed (sudden absence, malformed, URL has changed), you contact the author or the publication. And if that doesn't work, you create an RSS feed out of the site using tools like Huginn or NewsBlur (one of its paid tiers has a feature to turn any website into an RSS feed). wouldn't say I've gone as far as Chris Harding, but I've done a lot of those things.

Democrat Jamie Raskin has launched a probe into whether Jeffrey Epstein acted as an unregistered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, and other countries.

CNN: An investigation finds that Trump cuts created a "perfect storm" for a slowed response to the Cyclospora outbreak. More than half of states are reporting Cyclospora infections.

Have you wondered what it feels like to be an incarcerated writer? 🔒 You have been deemed subhuman & are warehoused on the fringes of society without access to computers, copiers or the internet. 🔒 The table you write on is so low that it causes neck aches that lock up your back within an hour. https://mailchi.mp/prisonjournalismproject/summer2026_leo

Last week as I was reevaluating the X API, I said I’d pause for a week. I’m now going to hold it indefinitely. It’s a distraction we don’t need, and in my attempt to make it easy to use, I didn’t appreciate how confusing the money part of this would be.

As I said in a follow-up post:

The mission has never changed: post short posts (and everything else!) to your own blog, which makes the web better, and also opens opportunities for smaller, safer communities.

I still believe in POSSE. It also inspired this post over the weekend about politics and open web principles.

"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.

Did you see the cameras rolling around New Hamburg or Cornwall? Hudson Valley-filmed Best Medicine is coming back for Season 2, and Fox has revealed the premiere date. Continue reading…

“Three months into the Iran war, bond market traders are tuning out President Trump’s posts on his personal social media site, Truth Social, analysts say,” Axios reports. “Researchers from JPMorgan show that for the most part, his social media posts are noise, with very little ability to move the market.”

“House Democrats issued a rebuttal to the White House’s attack on the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, arguing in a report that the Trump administration cherry-picked quotes, mangled basic facts and misstated who controls the institution — even as House Republicans escalate the fight by summoning the museum’s director to testify Tuesday,” the Washington […]

On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock. You might wonder if those divergent genres belong together, but the proof is in the […]

The post The name of this LP is “Side One.” appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement dives headfirst into another fresh round of cold-blooded murders, Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, had what could only be described as a full-blown temper tantrum outside of the White House, growing visibly upset and erratic a...