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Here’s what the web looked like in 1994, including the likes of Yahoo!, GNN, Pathfinder, IBM, The Amazing FishCam, and Pizza Hut. [fastcompany.com]
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Here’s what the web looked like in 1994, including the likes of Yahoo!, GNN, Pathfinder, IBM, The Amazing FishCam, and Pizza Hut. [fastcompany.com]
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Interesting convo about AI. “Working with AI has made me even more impressed with the kinds of things that every two-year-old is doing. It has also made the intelligence of octopuses, brine shrimp, and all the other creatures around us more vivid.” [lareviewofbooks.org]
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Diary comics, in which Edith revels in her appearance in the local paper. [kottke.org]
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Archaeologists have discovered that Denisovan humans survived for at least 100,000 years on the Tibetan plateau. And they may have survived there as late as 32,000 years ago, meaning they could have mixed with modern humans. [nature.com]
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Season three of The Bear “struggles to make its point about the abuses and toxicity of the restaurant industry because it is willing to absolve the real-life chefs who have actually engaged in that kind of demeaning behavior.” [eater.com]
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Mary H.K Choi: What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained. “By my late 30s, I’d concluded I was simply bad at people. I was also indescribably lonely.” [kottke.org]
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A 4000-year-old Minoan structure with labyrinthine walls has been uncovered in Crete. (Could this be the legendary maze of King Minos? (Probably not…wrong location.)) [livescience.com]
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Wells Fargo analysts ordered 75 identical burrito bowls from 8 different Chipotles and found that portion sizes varied wildly. The biggest bowl was almost 2x heavier than the smallest. Wild that they don’t standardize this from a cost perspective. [qz.com]
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The Last Rave, an excerpt of Emily Witt’s new book, Health and Safety. “In the summer of 2020, I felt as if I’d entered the wrong portal, out of the world I knew and into its bizarro twin.” [kottke.org]
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Ohhhhh coooool, a grinning foreskin robot. A team recently “unveiled a technique for creating lifelike robotic skin using living human cells”. Don’t watch the video if you ever want to sleep again. [arstechnica.com]
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Historian Heather Cox Richardson: “Today the United States Supreme Court overthrew the central premise of American democracy: that no one is above the law.” Historian David Blight: “Today six people on the Supreme Court amended the Constitution.” [kottke.org]
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Actually, literally the biggest & most powerful armed force the Earth has ever seen and an arsenal of nuclear weapons
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Supreme Court Rules That Presidents Have Absolute Immunity for “Core Constitutional Powers”. From Sotomayor’s dissent, a line that will reverberate for decades: “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” [kottke.org]
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Tantalizing speculation: the “Untitled WB/Legendary/Denis Villeneuve Event Film in IMAX” now scheduled for release in Dec 2026 is Dune: Part Three. [indiewire.com]
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Oooooh! For their fiction issue, the New Yorker has an exclusive excerpt from Sally Rooney’s forthcoming book, Intermezzo. There’s an audio version of Rooney reading it as well. [kottke.org]
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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again. “…spending half of the planet’s engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly.” [ludic.mataroa.blog]
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Ok sure but which bible
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Take a video journey to the micro universe, shrinking 10x every 20 seconds until you’re the size of an atom. At each stage, compare your size with a familiar object — quarter, blood cell, DNA helix — to keep yourself oriented. [kottke.org]
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Paramount has taken offline the entire MTV News archive as well as Comedy Central, CMT, and TV Land websites, including 20 years of material from The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and South Park. [hollywoodreporter.com]
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The Biden administration’s successes (clean energy, infrastructure investment, workers’ rights, making gov’t work better) amount to a Quiet New Deal. And that quietness is helping conservatives. [i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io]
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More diary comics from Edith: life at home with a newborn and toddler, making silly purchases, having Zoom therapy. [kottke.org]
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Asking AI to generate a video of the Tour de France. 1. This is hilarious (the explosion!) 2. This illustrates how/where LLM image generators fail. Like, this has the vibe of biking but the details & physics are totally wrong. An uncanny Grand Canyon. [instagram.com]
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A compilation of dozens of time lapse videos of plants (and mushrooms!) growing — strawberry, avocado, tobacco, ginger, oak tree, cauliflower, potato, kiwi, etc. [kottke.org]
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One Million Checkboxes. I love these sorts of minimal collaborative thingies. (Are there bots on here now though? Every time I uncheck a bunch of boxes, they are checked pretty quickly after that again…) [onemillioncheckboxes.com]
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Calm Down — Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World. “So don’t even worry about it.” [mcsweeneys.net]
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The White Death. John Green teamed up with Kurzgesagt to talk about tuberculosis. “In the last 200 years it killed a billion people — way more than all wars and natural disasters combined.” [kottke.org]
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Loved Caity Weaver’s Letter of Recommendation for the only reality show I’ve ever really loved: PBS’s Frontier House. “Next to the unflappable Glenns, the Clunes are revealed to be feckless, flighty, highfalutin’ crybabies.” [nytimes.com]
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llama.ttf is a font that includes an LLM and an inference engine for that model. “This also means that you can use your font to chat with your font.” [fuglede.github.io]
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Some Obvious Travel Advice, including “Mindset matters more than where you go” and “Being in a foreign place is often kinda alienating. So don’t expect constant fun”. [kottke.org]
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Updated advice about lightning safety when you’re outdoors, including “hiding in a cave is a bad idea”, “lying down puts you in even more danger than standing up”, and “the lightning position is useless”. [outsideonline.com]
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New Order’s Iconic Blue Monday Played on Vintage Casio Instruments. “What you see me playing in the video are the actual instruments I used to make this multi-track recording.” This is super fun…I love this song. [kottke.org]
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Pros And Cons Of Displaying The 10 Commandments In Every Classroom. “PRO: Distracts from how weird the Pledge of Allegiance is. CON: Use of woke ‘Thou/Thy’ pronouns.” [theonion.com]
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Powerful short film featuring former Tennessee abortion clinic workers & volunteers speaking out against the state’s abortion ban. “If I can’t make the same medical decisions about my body with autonomy, I’m a second-class citizen.” [kottke.org]
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Unhoused participants in the Denver Basic Income Project used their $1000/mo to find jobs & housing, spent less time in ERs, and reported improved mental health. “A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.” [yahoo.com]
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I wrote a story about what it was like growing up and flying with my dad. [kottke.org]
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End Legal Slavery in the United States (i.e. forced prison labor). “It’s a different model from the chattel slavery over which the Civil War was fought, but by all norms of international law, it is a violation of fundamental human rights.” [nytimes.com]
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We Can and Should Address Racial Disparities. “Most of the programs that would be most beneficial to racial equality are actually universal policies.” (via @jbouie.bsky.social) al-disparities/'>[prospect.org]
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Photographer Ryan Weideman worked as a NYC taxi driver for 35 years (1981-2016) and photographed his passengers while on the job. [kottke.org]
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AC Lamberty writes about how his tastes (and experience of masculinity) changed as he transitioned. “Before I started hormone replacement therapy — before I was ‘a guy’ — I never really cared about nuts (yes, you can laugh).” [eater.com]
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Super Moxio Bros is a version of World 1-1 of the original Super Mario Bros done using typewriter characters. [kottke.org]
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The record industry is suing a pair of AI music-making companies over copyright issues. Listen to some of the songs that the record cos were able to generate from prompts…they are very close to the originals. [404media.co]
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Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. For a marketing campaign, Oreo sold tubes of their frosting so people could repair their broken Oreos in the same way. [kottke.org]
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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declares gun violence a public health crisis. “America should be a place where all of us can go to school, go to work, go to the supermarket, go to our house of worship” without putting our lives at risk. [theguardian.com]
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“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%.” These bans were never about saving lives; they’re about controlling women. [statnews.com]
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Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500. “Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries.” [kottke.org]
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I knew the western US had become drier, but I hadn’t realized how much wetter the northeast had become…25-50+% more precipitation in the summer compared to 75 years ago. [x.com]
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The Art Book for Children is a beautiful book aimed at kids aged 7-12 that features hundreds of artworks from artists like Hilma af Klint, Vincent van Gogh, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Botticelli, and Hokusai. [kottke.org]
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I am enjoying the empathetic trajectory of the Charli XCX and Lorde beef; cheers to working it out on the remix. “On what is titled The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde, the two singers trade verses with heart-wrenching candour.” [theguardian.com]
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Observers have reported a large red spot on Jupiter since the 1660s. But according to a new analysis, the old red spot may have disappeared and the current Great Red Spot formed sometime in the 19th century. [arstechnica.com]
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When heiress Marlene Engelhorn decided to give away most of her money, she selected an independent council of 50 randomly chosen people. “Wealth is never an individual achievement. Wealth is always created by society.” [kottke.org]
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