Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, Things Become Other Things. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

Links:

• Craig’s web page for the book — including tour dates.

• Amazon

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book Six Centuries of Type & Printing.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

Links:

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.

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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.

Links:

• Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features

• Apple Joins the Navy

• Anthropic (Claude)

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, Tapestry — a universal timeline for the Internet.

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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.

Links:

• “Apple Updates iPad Air (M2→M3) and Regular iPad (A14→A16), and Revamps Magic Keyboard for iPad Air”.

• Craig, on the Iconfactory blog: “Enter Tapestry”.

• Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketchpad for your iPad”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.

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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.

Links:

• Every play featured in the 1977 CBS "NFL Today" opening credits would be a severe penalty for violence in today's NFL. Video on YouTube; story on Awful Announcing.

• Daring Fireball: "Golfo del Gringo Loco".

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.

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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.

Links:

• Wikipedia entry.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.

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Links:

• Fun Facts with Arik Devens, now complete.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.

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Links:

• My commentary linking to it.

• Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it.

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Links:

• Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one)

• Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.

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Links:

• David Schaub’s chart of base RAM in Mac desktops since 1984.

• Daring Fireball: “Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals”.

• Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.

• Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils New M4 MacBook Pro Lineup, Including, Hallelujah, a Nano-Texture Display Option”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.