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A curated collection of eclectic ephemera, in a space to explore, learn, and share.

With your host, Jason Anthony Guy.

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Coast Guard Updates Then Quickly Reverses ‘Hate Symbol’ Policy on Swastikas and Nooses

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Coast Guard Updates Then Quickly Reverses ‘Hate Symbol’ Policy on Swastikas and Nooses
Tara Copp and Michelle Boorstein, in a Washington Post “exclusive” on Thursday (semi-gift link; Apple News+): The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and whit...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Chadwick Boseman Gets Posthumous Star on ‘a Prime Spot’ on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Chadwick Boseman Gets Posthumous Star on ‘a Prime Spot’ on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Angelique Jackson, Variety: On a starry January evening in 2018, Chadwick Boseman stepped out of a black car and onto the royal purple carpet outside the Dolby Theatre for the world premiere of his n...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Amazon Cuts 14,000 Jobs In October, Ahead of Holiday Season

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Amazon Cuts 14,000 Jobs In October, Ahead of Holiday Season
It would be disingenuous of me not to acknowledge Amazon’s massive layoffs, coming right as we head into the holiday season, seeing as I just posted about Amazon’s early Black Friday Apple deals. Ann...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Apple AirTags 4-Pack Is $65 on Amazon (and Other Early Black Friday Apple Discounts)

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Apple AirTags 4-Pack Is $65 on Amazon (and Other Early Black Friday Apple Discounts)
Currently $99 direct from Apple. Shared by a friend inside Apple who notes the 34% discount is significantly better than Apple’s employee pricing. The single pack is 38% off ($18), but the four-pack i...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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More on Saudi Arabia’s ‘Gameswashing’

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More on Saudi Arabia’s ‘Gameswashing’
From the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, episode 302—“Saudi Arabia is Using Games to Improve Its Image” (Overcast, Apple Podcasts): Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss how Saudi Arabia is b...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Karen Attiah: ‘The Saudification of America Is Under Way’

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Karen Attiah: ‘The Saudification of America Is Under Way’
Karen Attiah, The Guardian: This week, seven years almost to the day since the CIA announced the crown prince’s responsibility in the murder [of Jamal Khashoggi], Mohammed bin Salman returns to Washi...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Trump’s Grip on His Nastiness Is Slipping

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Trump’s Grip on His Nastiness Is Slipping
Margaret Sullivan, The Guardian: Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions. Her query to Donald Trump a fe...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Cynthia Erivo and Misty Copeland Perform Stripped-Down Version of ‘No Good Deed’

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Cynthia Erivo and Misty Copeland Perform Stripped-Down Version of ‘No Good Deed’
The YouTube algorithm at its best. Beautiful.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Cynthia Erivo on Fresh Air

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Cynthia Erivo on Fresh Air
I throughly enjoyed this conversation between Cynthia Erivo and Tonya Mosley on Fresh Air (Overcast, Apple Podcasts). Mosley asks great questions, and Erivo has wonderful, thoughtful answers. It’s in ...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Apple 3D-printed Titanium Apple Watch Cases, Cutting Material Use by 50 Percent

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Apple 3D-printed Titanium Apple Watch Cases, Cutting Material Use by 50 Percent
Apple details a new manufacturing process for its titanium Apple Watch cases: It started with a pie-in-the-sky idea: What if 3D printing — historically used to create prototypes — could be leveraged ...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Jeff Williams Is Officially Retired From Apple

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Jeff Williams Is Officially Retired From Apple
Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac: Last July, Apple announced that its longtime Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams, would retire “late in the year.” According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, he just clocked out...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Accessing the OED via Your Local Public Library

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Accessing the OED via Your Local Public Library
Accessing the Oxford English Dictionary normally costs $10/£10 a month (or $100/£100 a year), but many libraries offer free access—handy if you need to, say, refute an annoyingly ahistorical use of “w...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Apple’s ‘Unibody’ Introduction From 2008

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Apple’s ‘Unibody’ Introduction From 2008
Apple’s “unibody” design is now ubiquitous across its products—the casings of every MacBook, iPad, and now the latest iPhone 17 Pro are carved from solid blocks of aluminum. But after describing Issey...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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No, Shakespeare Didn't Toke on 'a Noted Weed'

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No, Shakespeare Didn’t Toke on ‘a Noted Weed’
Sam Kelly, at Literary Hub, asks “Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?”: That’s right, Shakespeare was a stoner. I’m not making this up—they found the evidence in his backyard. Back in 2...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Financial Times: Tim Cook’s Succession Planning ‘Intensifies’

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Financial Times: Tim Cook’s Succession Planning ‘Intensifies’
Tim Bradshaw, Stephen Morris, Michael Acton, and Daniel Thomas, reporting for Financial Times (paywalled, but summarized by Reuters): Apple is stepping up its succession planning efforts, as it prepa...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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29% of Americans Support US Military Killing Drug Suspects

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29% of Americans Support US Military Killing Drug Suspects
The headline and lede from Jason Lange’s Reuters story is infuriating and mortifying: Just 29% of Americans support US military killing drug suspects Only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. mil...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Tesla Reportedly Testing CarPlay Internally

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Tesla Reportedly Testing CarPlay Internally
Mark Gurman and Edward Ludlow, writing for Bloomberg under the headline “Tesla Is Working to Add Apple CarPlay in Bid to Boost Vehicle Sales” (paywalled; Archive.ph link): Tesla Inc. is developing su...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Digital Blackface in the Age of AI

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Digital Blackface in the Age of AI
Zeba Blay, for Teen Vogue: You’re doomscrolling. On TikTok, or Instagram, or YouTube, or some other equally distracting online platform. In between harrowing news stories pointing to the nation’s dec...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Adelita Grijalva Finally To Be Sworn in More Than Seven Weeks After Her Election

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Adelita Grijalva Finally To Be Sworn in More Than Seven Weeks After Her Election
Joey Cappelletti and Matt Brown, AP News: As the House returns Wednesday for the first time in months, Democrat Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in as its newest member, more than seven weeks after win...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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‘A Moment of Connecting the Dots.”

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‘A Moment of Connecting the Dots’
Ashley Ogawa Clarke for Vogue, on the aforelinked iPhone Pocket collab between Apple and Issey Miyake (paywalled; Apple News+; Internet Archive): Though Miyake and Jobs are not around to see it, ther...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Apple and Issey Miyake Collaborate on iPhone Pocket, Inspired by ‘A Piece of Cloth’

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Apple and Issey Miyake Collaborate on iPhone Pocket, Inspired by ‘A Piece of Cloth’
Apple: ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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EFF on ‘Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance’ Terminology

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EFF on ‘Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance’ Terminology
Rindala Alajaji, writing for the EFF: If you’ve been following the wave of age-gating laws sweeping across the country and the globe, you’ve probably noticed that lawmakers, tech companies, and advoc...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Privacy-Compromising ‘Age Verification’ Laws Coming to App Stores in Texas, Utah, Louisiana

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Privacy-Compromising ‘Age Verification’ Laws Coming to App Stores in Texas, Utah, Louisiana
Apple Developer News, in October: Beginning January 1, 2026, a new state law in Texas — SB2420 — introduces age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. While we share the goal of ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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⚙ Celebrating Citizenship, Year Eight

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Celebrating Citizenship, Year Eight
A brief acknowledgment today as I celebrate my eighth anniversary of becoming an American citizen, which I first wrote about last year: It’s an odd feeling to be—in even a small way—celebrating seven...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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A Brutal Takedown of the New York Times, Though Critics Say It’s Not

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A Brutal Takedown of the New York Times, Though Critics Say It’s Not
Peter Coviello, the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s alma mater, absolutely excoriates The New York Times for its piece on Mamdani’s “elite” education,...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM