
308: ‘Peak Hubris’, With Christina Warren
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/19/21
•146m
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Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about Apple Car, Apple TV, Clubhouse, and Bloomberg hamfistedly revisiting “The Big Hack”.
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Links:
- Daring Fireball posts on Bloomberg’s “Big Hack” update.
- “Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media” by Seth Mnookin.
- Zeynep Tucekci: “Critical Thinking Isn’t Just a Process” — interesting post about reading through the lines of authoritarian doublespeak.
- Marc Newson’s Ikepod watches, ideas which carried through to Apple Watch.
- Rocket — Christina’s podcast with Brianna Wu and Simone De Rochefort.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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307: ‘Soviet Toilet Paper’, With John Moltz
January 31, 2021
•157m
John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.
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Links:
- Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman reports on 2021 Macs.
- Mimeographs.
- San Antonio 10 year old who got 10 shares of GameStop stock as a gift from his mom and made $3000.
- Titanium G4 PowerBook.
- Robinhood overview by NYT.
- Philly COVID vaccination fiasco.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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309: ‘Pinkies on the Semicolon’, With John Siracusa
February 27, 2021
•173m
The state of the Mac, with special guest John Siracusa.
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Links:
- Siracusa’s Mac OS X reviews:
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
- Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
- Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X DP4
- Mac OS X DP3
- Mac OS X DP2
- Siracusa’s entire archive at Ars Technica
- Hypercritical — Siracusa’s seldom-updated website
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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