- Saying goodbye to Foursquare City Guide (kottke.org) — Long live Swarm? Apparently I’m not the only person who still uses Swarm.
- Early 90s SNL Graphic Parodies (kottke.org)
- Stunt City (kottke.org)
- Stuffies & Lovies That Have Been Loved Too Much (kottke.org)
- Alphabet in Motion (kottke.org)
- The Punitive and Predatory Cost of Going to Jail (kottke.org)
- Walt Disney’s Corporate Strategy Chart (kottke.org)
- Death of a Pig by E.B. White (1948) (kottke.org)
- Rudy Giuliani Is Losing Everything to the Georgia Election Workers He Defamed (Daring Fireball)
- The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings (Daring Fireball)
- Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator (Daring Fireball)
- Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’ (Daring Fireball)
- Movies Watched, September 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
News
- Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound
- Disney’s still looking for a new CEO — but not this year or next year
- Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode — Intuit’s PR Team Has Seemingly Never Heard of the Streisand Effect
- The GameCube’s retro styling lives on in this customized PS5 DualSense controller
- Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows
- Celebrity jet-tracking accounts disappear from Threads and Instagram
- Apple iPad Mini 2024 review: a new chip and Apple Intelligence don’t add up to much.
- Democrats want DOJ to prosecute tax prep companies that allegedly shared user data with Meta and Google
- The Boox Palma 2 has a faster processor and adds a fingerprint reader
- Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate
- iOS 18.2 will let everyone set new default phone and messaging apps
- Google Calendar gets a redesign and dark mode
- Notion is making a super customizable email app
- The Browser Company is building another browser, and it’s not called Arc.
- Russia paid a former Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes and disinformation
- Jeff Bezos reportedly killed the Washington Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement — Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post