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What's the story on Mythos AI from Anthropic, a fascinating AT&T history lesson, a must-read Sam Altman profile, and the best app I’m using to save everything.

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• Watch: Hank Green Interview on Mythos
• Listen: Western Electric 500: Monopoly phone
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• Read: Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker
  • Primary Tech Chapter on Sam Altman
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• Deep: Reconcilable Differences #284: Burger Boy
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Joanna Stern launched her "New Things," a look inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios, Jason's great commentary on Tim Cook, and on retiring from content creation (not me).

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Watch the Private Video
https://youtu.be/WcK0DdUcazk

Why I Quit The Wall Street Journal To Start This YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd2Dyr0m3BI

Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOLfijQzQc

Inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios — Twenty Thousand Hertz
https://www.20k.org/episodes/hans-zimmers-remote-control

Community Letter from Tim - Apple

https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/

Tim Cook’s Farewell Letter Just Revealed His Most Important Leadership Habit

https://apple.news/ADYipKBtITUKNC-wuMSx6jw

Backup Your Shortcuts 

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I'm Retiring… Gerald Undone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqNa6Xa3Ns

Cleo Abram goes to Antarctica, Jonah Hill's interview on SmartLess, Joanna Stern's new book I Am Not a Robot is out, a few great Mac apps, and a commencement address clip reacting to AI.

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What's Really Under Antarctica - Cleo Abram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGEMCb6BQU

Watch the SmartLess Live Show with Jonah Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvlPFnOC0o

SmartLess Live with Jonah Hill on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jonah-hill-live/id1521578868?i=1000766700415

I Am Not a Robot
https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Robot-Almost-Everything/dp/0063446618

Contextly App
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/contextly-notes/id6762497168

Gnome - Share GIFs on a Mac
https://lexfriedman.com/gnome/

Today Menu Bar App
https://sindresorhus.com/today

UFC Commencement Video - Cabel Sasser on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/cabel.panic.com/post/3mlk75u3om22e

Hannah Fry tests what AI agents can really do, the founding story of Starbucks on Acquired, the rise of clip farms, massive new data center debacle, and the Earth like no one has seen.

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Acquired: Starbucks with Howard Schultz
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?i=1000657758174

The Clippening — The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/report/920005/social-media-clipping-podcasts-clavicular-marketing-mrbeast

Claude and Grok as Roommates — 512 Pixels
https://512pixels.net/2026/05/claude-and-grok-roommates/

Hovercraft — Sandwich Vision
https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft

Earth GIF from Artemis II — Hank Green
https://youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?si=9-QyFTfIZN_2eGjC

John Oliver tackles AI chatbots, Nilay Patel on the AI backlash, swirling Vision Pro and MagSafe rumors, a fun wallpaper shortcut, and my take on actually useful AI.

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• AI Chatbots — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Decoder with Nilay Patel — Apple Podcasts
• The people do not yearn for automation — The Verge
• Apple Reportedly Gives Up on Vision Pro After M5 Refresh — MacRumors
• Apple Questioning Whether to Drop MagSafe from iPhone — MacRumors
• Jon Prosser: "Vision Pro ain't dead fam"
• Basic Gradient Wallpaper Shortcut
• Patel: Software Brain — Daring Fireball
• 15 Useful Ways I Use AI Every Day

A YouTube gem on making instead of consuming, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser disaster, an Apple Vision Pro doc on Real Madrid, the social app that unifies Bluesky and Mastodon, and Google brings vibe coding to Android phones.

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• stop being an audience member of your own life — YouTube
• Apple TV renews 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars' for a second season — 9to5Mac
• Knife's Edge on Apple TV
• The Antarctic Snow Cruiser — Omnibus — Apple Podcasts
• Real Madrid Immersive Documentary Releases This Friday on Apple Vision Pro — MacStories
• Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon — App Store
• Google AI Studio news from Google I/O 2026 — The Keyword
• 447: 'A Sociopathic Father' — The Talk Show With John Gruber — Apple Podcasts

Ferrari's first EV designed by Jony Ive, Sundar Pichai on Google's AI future, a seven-year-old video about the word you say every day, and a new RSS reader worth trying.

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Ferrari Luce Interior — MKBHD
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Reu1WS3BhM

How Sundar Pichai Is Rethinking Google for the AI Era — Decoder with Nilay Patel
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648?i=1000769616958

Focused — with David Sparks and Mike Schmitz 

• Note: My Episode releases Tuesday, June 2nd

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/focused/id1138055739

Why we say "OK" — Vox
https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs

Amethyst
https://amethyst.news

Inventory Shortcut
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Inventory Shortcut Demo
https://youtube.com/shorts/8c9hMTDAZr0

Bob Ross × Mozart × Fortnite
https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5HAEgkIaRM

A behind-the-scenes look at how Apple builds those immersive visionOS environments, Version History episode on the Harmony remote, how Australia's social media ban is actually playing out, a fun shortcut for yesterday's sports scores, and shake-ups happening in tech journalism.

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Harmony remote: Control freak — Version History
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/harmony-remote-control-freak/id1840983742?i=1000772624848

How Australia's social media ban has affected families six months on — The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/how-australia-social-media-ban-has-affected-families-six-months-on

Get Yesterday's Sports Scores
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86378520115643f0b0feca437620d2d8

Eater, The Verge and SB Nation Sold to Penske Media — The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/eater-verge-sbnation-sold-penske-media-1236624828/

The Siri Demo Apple Didn't Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtWNGnPj-kM

The New Siri is Actually Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3lL68hNK4

Justin Ryan asks Apple if it's done with Vision Pro, Primary Technology was LIVE from Apple Park, Federico Viticci's reflective WWDC essay, and the beautifully designed Tasks app I'm about to try.

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• I Asked Apple About visionOS 27 and Vision Pro Rumors
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• WWDC 2026 LIVE from Apple Park | Primary Technology
• WWDC 2026: Between Seasons | MacStories
• macOS Wall of Text | Basic Apple Guy
• Tasks: Todo Lists & Kanban

MacVince is making incredible YouTube content about apps, John Gruber guesting on TBPN, the Kickstarter for Mike Hurley and Jason Snell's new Apple history podcast, the $10 Mac app I use to grab text from anything, and Amy Poehler's great hang with Judge Judy.

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Gruber on TBPN
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-origin-explosion-enterprise-ai-hits-spending-limits/id1772360235?i=1000770241038&t=1753

TBPN Episode on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/live/sQVwLUxFdMY?si=EXKp-3QZS64Y1Idp&t=1998

Designed in California: An Apple History Podcast
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designedincalifornia/designed-in-california-an-apple-history-podcast

TextSniper
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textsniper/id1528890965?mt=12

Judge Judy Sheindlin — Good Hang with Amy Poehler
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-hang-with-amy-poehler/id1795483480?i=1000724534033