Daniel Bader

Everything is getting more expensive these days, so it’s almost necessary to wait until a scheduled sale like Prime Day or Black Friday to purchase big-ticket items.

I’ve been looking for a new pair of headphones recently, and came across a few Prime Day sales that I think are worth considering.

Good morning! Today, I’m searching for Prime Day deals, watching Chris Rock masterfully dodge questions about The Slap, questioning Sam Altman about whether we have to accept “some bad things” to justify AI’s exponential growth, and brushing up on my chess game after many years of neglect.

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Good morning and happy October. Today, I’m cringing at this gaggle of billionaires pretending to be human, vibing to the new Tinashe album, Popstar, and heartily dining on all the brutal ‘Digger’ reviews.

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Good morning. Today I’m going crazy over the NYT’s list of the best TV shows of the 21st century, redoing all of my vibe-projects with Opus 5.5, girding my loins for another Witcher 3 play-through now that the free remaster is out, and devouring Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Cool Machine.

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Like any sane capitalist, I love getting new stuff. But there’s something heartening about those new things settling into age, like a fecund garden becoming slightly unwieldy, or a pair of shoes getting more comfortable as you use them.

Similarly, I’ve always enjoyed the way a well-made leather case ages as it weathers the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Traditionally called a patina, it’s the lived-in quality that a piece of leather inherits as it absorbs skin oils, scratches, and the unpredictability of weather.

Good morning. Today I’m watching yet another Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave review (watch this for context), getting started on my Booker Prize shortlist read-through, and reading as much as I can about Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” now that it’s the longest-running #1 hit of all time.

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Good morning. Today I’m bumping to Carly Rae Jepsen’s new double album (it’s great!), wishing I had more kidneys so I could afford the new M5 Ultra Mac Studio, marveling at Astra’s ability to decrypt 100-year-old WWI cyphers, and counting down the days until I can play Control Resonant.

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Good morning. Today I’m finding some peace playing Lumines Remastered, deciding whether to get my kids one of the new 4th-gen Yoto players, and trying to figure out why everyone is freaking out about this recent Tom Cruise interview.

Good morning. Today I’m wondering if I should revisit Diablo IV in light of the Diablo V announcement, what I would possibly do with a Steam Frame if I could justify its $1,059 price, and whether I missed any major features by reading as many iOS 27 and macOS 27 reviews as I can stomach.

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As my house becomes increasingly strewn with the detritus of parenting, I’ve made the inverse effort to eliminate excess, physical and digital, from my life. As much as it is about control, it’s also about mental health; I already use my phone too much, so adding yet another thing to the backpack, to the pocket, feels anything but additive.

Good morning, how did you sleep? Me, I had trouble until I started counting the number of times Apple used the word “AI” in its keynote (it was 41). In my dream, I was inundated with Elizabeth Holmes deepfakes and memes, which startled me awake. As I lay in bed, I calmed down by reading about how AI will “kill us all by the end of the decade,” and then I got up and helped ChatGPT do my kids’ homework. Such a great day.

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Hey, happy Tuesday. How was your long weekend? I hope it involved a little Windows 98-style downtime, maybe some pickleball with Andre Agassi, a dive into the origins of the newly UN-endorsed Equal Earth map, and a few examples of GPT-6 Astra blowing some minds.

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Good morning and happy Thursday. Today I’m watching every minute of M. Night Shyamalan’s new YouTube video on the making of Signs, trying to convince myself I don’t need the Sonos Ace Ultra headphones, and using this helpful guide to finally install a local AI model on my M4 Pro Mac Mini.

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Google morning. How many times have you written that before? I hope you had a lovely final weekend before Labor Day. This morning, I’m reading about tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of pristine Duck Hunt cartridges found in a box in Wisconsin, vigorously nodding my head along to John Oliver’s takedown of subscription bloat (but remember to subscribe to 9to5Google Pro anyway!), and wishing I had a 3D printer to create my dream storage and organization system.

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Good morning and happy Thursday. Today I’m donating to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in her honor, reading about OpenAI’s incredibly powerful new AI inference chip, pretending to read Bill Gates’ 6,000-word essay about AI’s diverging futures, and actually watching this 2-hour deep dive of the upcoming Thief: The Dark Project Remastered instead.

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Good morning and happy Tuesday. It’s the perfect time to read conspiracies about who exactly made the new Ox Alpha AI model, cry about coffee getting even more expensive, add this fun daily typing challenge to your morning routine, and listen to r/indieheads’ top 106 songs of 2010 to 2026.

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Over the past week, I’ve probably shot more video of my kids than in the previous year combined. I’m a photographer, so I take photos — thousands of them — but rarely swipe over to that tempting toggle that displaces the moment for momentum.

The dichotomy between photo and video has existed as long as there have been cameras capable of doing both. Many attempts have been made to bridge the gap, from HTC Zoe in 2013 to Apple’s Live Photos and Google’s subsequent Motion Photos years later, but most technical limitations have largely kept the two functions separate.

Good morning and happy Thursday. We’ve got Pixel reviews galore, a new look at Insomniac’s upcoming Wolverine game, a crazy story about prolific phone scammers, and an updated version of Qwen 3.8 that I’ll be spending the next few days tweaking to my liking.

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Good morning. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Today I’m reading more about Anthropic’s strange new text watermarking process, watching this historic Joshua Baéz home run recap on repeat, listening to the incredible new Phoebe Bridgers album, and getting stuck into Daniel Mason’s new satire, Country People.

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Good morning. What a day yesterday — we had a huge Google hardware event, a total solar eclipse, a truly terrible AI album, and a couple of powerful, cheap AI models released that are sure to make Google sweat. Oh, and we’ve made it to 10 issues!

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