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The Harvesting-Sea-Life Edition Saturday, October 12, 2024

Malala Yousafzai On Why Filmmaking Has Become Essential To Her Activism, by Ronda Racha Penrice, Hollywood Reporter

Shaping the world into a better place has been an active mission for Malala Yousafzai. As an activist for girls and human rights globally recognized since age 12, the Nobel Peace Prize winner — the youngest in history to receive the award — is no stranger to cameras in her own life. After her acclaimed 2015 documentary He Named Me Malala, inspired by her bestselling memoir I Am Malala, she produced the Oscar-nominated short doc Stranger at the Gate. At the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, Yousafzai premiered the Apple doc The Last of the Sea Women, from her production company Extracurricular, which premieres on Apple TV+ on Oct. 11. The film examines the world of South Korea’s all female haenyeo divers, whose centuries-long tradition of harvesting sea life in the waters off Jeju Island is endangered.

Asahi Linux’s Bespoke GPU Driver Is Running Windows Games On Apple Silicon Macs, by Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, or on Arm processors would have been laughable. But the developers behind Asahi Linux—the independent project that is getting Linux working on Apple Silicon Macs—have managed to do all three of these things at once.

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Apple's 16-Year-Old SuperDrive Now Out Of Stock Worldwide, Likely Discontinued, by Joe Rossignol, MacRumors

A few months ago, the SuperDrive went out of stock on Apple's online store in the U.S., and it is now listed as sold out or unavailable in all countries. Given it has yet to return, it seems likely that Apple has discontinued the 16-year-old accessory.

This Mindfulness Journaling App Puts Reflection Above Productivity, by Tess Ryan, MakeUseOf

Adopting mindfulness into our day-to-day lives might feel like a luxury we can't afford, but apps like Napkin make it feel more accessible.

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US Labor Board Accuses Apple Of Restricting Workers' Slack, Social Media Use, by Daniel Wiessner, Reuters

The NLRB complaint, issued on Thursday, accuses the iPhone maker of maintaining unlawful work rules around the acceptable uses of Slack, illegally firing an employee who advocated for workplace changes on Slack, requiring another worker to delete a social media post, and creating the impression that employees were being surveilled via social media.

On Podcast Exclusivity - And Public Service Broadcasting, by James Cridland

Exclusivity is incompatible with public service broadcasting, in my view. Leave that to the commercial broadcasters - and then benefit when your content is more available to all of the public who paid for it to be produced in the first place.

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I am glad to have Apple TV+. I am not sure if Apple is saying more 'no' than 'yes', or if Apple really has infinite money, but I am enjoying a higher percentage of shows on this service.

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