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Finally, a recommendation-heavy, full-mailbag show. Been a while.

New to the pod are achievements—watch your BreakingScore™ increase each time you write in to podcast@searls.co. The winner will receive nothing, probably.

Lynx:

• Coke BlāK
• My Full-breadth developers post
• When I discovered Claude is working for the weekend
• My latest newsletter that admits why I haven't started yet
• Aaron's puns, ranked
• Note taking AI is outnumbering participants on meetings
• Arkane founder slams Xbox Game Pass
• An unsubsidized Xbox could just do the special offers like Kindle, IMO
• Eyeball Dynamic Range
• FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing
• xOS 26 betas expected on July 23
• 'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
• 'Coding is dead': UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era
• OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf's CEO is going to Google
• Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users
• Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy
• People with higher cognitive ability have weaker moral foundations
• The Remarkable life of Ibelin
• Halt and catch fire
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• As Dusk Falls
• To The Moon
• Superman (2025)
• Expedition 33: Clair Obscur
• The Yakult Swallow guy died