Spoiler alert: I'm in the same country as I was for v37, but this time from a different nondescript business hotel. Also: I have good personal news! And, as usual, bad news news. I don't get to pick the headlines though, I just read them.

This episode comes with a homework assignment. First, watch Apple's keynote at 10 AM pacific on June 9th. Second, e-mail podcast@searls.co with all your takes. I'd love your help by informing me where my head should be at when I show up on the Changelog next week.

And now, fewer links than usual:

• The movie 父と僕の終わらない歌


• Fukushima


• The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum


• Utsunomiya


• Fukui


• I got spicy about LLM neophytes


• Aaron's puns, ranked


• Entry-level tech hiring is down 50%


• AI Role in College Brings Education Closer to a Crisis Point


• Veo 3 marks the beginning of the end times (watch this supercut)


• If you're having an affair, don't use Claude


• Apple's turning it up to 26


• My theory on what 2027's "all-glass" iPhone is really all about


• Nobody uses semicolons; they're pointless