{"id":16346,"date":"2025-06-04T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16346"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:28:47","slug":"wednesday-links-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/wednesday-links-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa is one of the most respected members of the Apple blogosphere. In these two pieces he lays the smack down on Tim Cook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypercritical.co\/2025\/05\/09\/apple-turnover\">Apple Turnover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hypercritical.co\/2025\/05\/20\/apple-turnaround\">Apple Turnaround<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Another bonkers and amazing addition to the legacy of the Voyager project: thrusters that had been assumed unusable for over 20 years have been revived. I keep waiting to hear that the minuscule budget line that keeps this project has been X-ed out by you -know-who.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause\/\">NASA\u2019s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As lazy as it is to keep rolling out remakes of old stuff, I will give a re-booted <em>Scrubs<\/em> a shot. Also an excuse to go watch some of the old ones again. Standard def ain\u2019t going to be pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/zach-braff-scrubs-reboot-abc-1236224509\/\">Zach Braff Boards \u2018Scrubs\u2019 Reboot at ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A moving piece about how music can affect us, and how that changes when the people that make the music are revealed to be (possibly) terrible humans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can\u2019t hear those words in the warm, paternal way I once did, knowing that someone else\u2019s daughter claims he damaged her. It\u2019s as simple as that when it comes to these matters of art vs. artist: Can you listen to the music without hearing ghosts in it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearingthings.co\/the-arcade-fire-problem-pink-elephant\/?ref=themorningnews.org\">The Arcade Fire Problem<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It was inevitable but there seems to be a growing movement to \u201cre-discover\u201d CDs and CD players amongst some music geeks. Which is cool; I don\u2019t judge anyone for diving into the history of physical music formats. A sub-set of that group is interested in Sony MiniDisc players. I never had one, but always thought they were super cool. This article looks back on how they worked and what made them unique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/obsoletesony.substack.com\/p\/how-minidisc-worked?ref=themorningnews.org\">How MiniDisc Worked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The entire site is a cool reminder of when Sony made the greatest shit.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Finally, a modern review of <em>Fletch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/movingtheriver.com\/2025\/05\/31\/the-cult-movie-club-fletch-40\/\">The Cult Movie Club: Fletch @\u00a040<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa is one of the most respected members of the Apple blogosphere. In these two pieces he lays the smack down on Tim Cook. Apple Turnover Apple Turnaround Another bonkers and amazing addition to the legacy of the Voyager project: thrusters that had been assumed unusable for over 20 years have been revived. I keep waiting to hear that the minuscule budget line that keeps this project has been X-ed out by you -know-who. NASA\u2019s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause As lazy as it is to keep rolling out remakes of old stuff, I will give a re-booted Scrubs a shot. Also an excuse to go watch some of the old ones again. Standard def ain\u2019t going to be pretty. Zach Braff Boards \u2018Scrubs\u2019 Reboot at ABC A moving piece about how music can affect us, and how that changes when the people that make the music are revealed to be (possibly) terrible humans. I can\u2019t hear those words in the warm, paternal way I once did, knowing that someone else\u2019s daughter claims he damaged her. It\u2019s as simple as that when it comes to these matters of art vs. artist: Can you listen to the music without hearing ghosts in it? The Arcade Fire Problem It was inevitable but there seems to be a growing movement to \u201cre-discover\u201d CDs and CD players amongst some music geeks. Which is cool; I don\u2019t judge anyone for diving into the history of physical music formats. A sub-set of that group is interested in Sony MiniDisc players. I never had one, but always thought they were super cool. This article looks back on how they worked and what made them unique. How MiniDisc Worked The entire site is a cool reminder of when Sony made the greatest shit. Finally, a modern review of Fletch. The Cult Movie Club: Fletch @\u00a040<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-16346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16348,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions\/16348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}