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How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked | TechCrunch — A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
The Library of Congress digitized 150,000+ comic pages and made them searchable by panel. You can actually find every appearance of a character across decades.
Doing nothing at work
Spot illustration, in progress.
Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online — Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
11 Second Club - The Monthly Character Animation Competition — Monthly character animation competition. Animate a new 11-second audio clip, get feedback from peers, and win eCritiques from professional animators.
Emotional farewell to 'global, iconic superstar' Bonnie Tyler — Fans, friends and family travel to Swansea to pay tribute to Total Eclipse of the Heart singer.
Can Zohran Mamdani’s New Correction Commissioner Solve the Problem of Rikers? — Stanley Richards brings faith in reform and his own experience of incarceration to an ongoing crisis.
Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels — A list of illustrated literature in the cyberpunk genre spanning Western comics, Japanese manga and graphic novels. Includes relevant themes, summaries and value to cyberpunk fans.
Ice Age Humans Mostly Killed Female Woolly Mammoths, Suggests Ancient DNA — After analyzing more than 500 mammoth bones, researchers found that ancient humans disproportionately hunted female mammoths for reasons still unknown
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims — Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.
Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" essay reframed an argument founders have been losing. https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html
Aesop's Fables Home Page - Fables of Aesop — Throughout history fables have been a popular method of giving instruction. Aesop's Fables contain a narrative that seeks to illustrate a hidden message.
Digg - AI news, before it trends — See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity — How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished
Burnout Is Real for Open Source Maintainers: A Conversation with John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash | OpenJS Foundation — Lodash creator John-David Dalton reflects on the project’s growth, the pressures of maintaining software used across the world, and the personal journey…
From the Spirit Effect to the Spirit Dilemma — Why can’t ultra-discount airlines thrive in the U.S. when they are so successful in Europe?
The 15 Most Beautiful Airport Landings in the World, Ranked — Flying to any of these destinations? You'll want to bag a window seat.
What's really slowing down the AI buildout — America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it where it's needed.
Imperfection is Key to Excellence | Ranjani Manian | TEDxChennai Institute of Technology Women — Perfection is often seen as the ultimate goal, but true excellence is built through mistakes, resilience, and continuous growth. This talk explores how embracing imperfections can…
Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir — I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you. I don’t want to trick you into feeling an emotion you weren’t planning to feel, or to take …
Vintage Everyday — A daily dose of nostalgia.
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? | Quanta Magazine — Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.
God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s — Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell are both historians and writers whose latest work focuses on the culture war of the 1980s and 1990s: Butler’s The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art and the Birth of Ameri…
SetPose: Free 3D Pose Maker — Mannequin Drawing Poses - SetPose.com — The easy to use pose maker for artists! Adjust the 3D drawing model to create your own custom poses. Combine them with many props to use as a drawing reference
found a comic artist who draws the same character aging through 50 years and honestly it's making me feel things about time i wasn't ready for
Best Animation Scripts (Free PDF Downloads) — Here are the best animation movie scripts. A library of the most iconic and influential screenplays you can read and download right now.
Djokovic 'happy but not the freshest' after Wu battle — Novak Djokovic begins yet another bid to claim a record 25th Grand Slam title with a hard-fought win over China's Wu Yibing at Wimbledon.
Start - Animator Island — Become a better animator Character animation tips, tricks and tutorials Want to support us? Please consider joining on Patreon watch videos earlier exclusive patreon-only live streams affordable monthly group mentoring 2D animation class 2D Animation for
My falling-out with the rationalist community — This is an article I resisted writing for a long time.
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You Don't Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss — Most people have an insufficient reason for action. The pain isn’t painful enough. It’s a nice-to-have, not a must-have. There has been no “Harajuku Moment.”
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines - Doug MacDowell — Hand drawn data visualizations by artist Doug MacDowell.
Omniatlas — Historical maps, year by year.
This coffee roaster maps out the exact temperature curve for every bean they use, and you can see why a two-degree difference tastes completely different.
Fuji Rock 2026 Livestream Schedule and Details — Find out when to stream sets by the xx, Mitski, Turnstile, and many more
I’m 38 and I Can’t Support Myself Anymore — Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value
Stories, articles, blogs, news about our collections - British Library — Uncover the wonders of our collections through blogs, articles, and news about our collections, people and history.
Animation News, Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Reviews | Skwigly — Skwigly, also known as Skwigly Animation Magazine, is an independent British online magazine that focuses on animation news, interviews, podcasts and more.
RISC-V and Floating-Point — Because Floating-Point Rocks
Reddit - Please wait for verification — The anime community.
“Remake,” Reviewed: The Film Confronts a Father’s Grief and a Filmmaker’s Responsibility — The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films.
A typographer mapped every decision in a single letter—kerning, weight, angle—and showed how changing one millimeter shifts the whole thing. Lettering is half the read.
What Does Joyce Carol Oates Really Think of Our Addiction to Social Media? — On June 16th, The Hogarth Press published The Frenzy: Stories, Joyce Carol Oates’s 49th collection. The same day, “America’s foremost woman of letters” posted and reposted 40 odd times on X, commen…
The Artist Who Colored Ghibli — Plus: news.
How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All) — We don’t know their names. We almost certainly never will. But beginning on February 11, 2022 108 healthy adults from across the United States performed an act of selfless generosity. Twelve went f…
Motion — Watch amazing short films, motion graphics reels, and endlessly entertaining animated GIFs
At what point does my family tree stop doubling and start decreasing? — Readers debate how the introduction of bicycles and trains will have led to less closely related prospective partners for our ancestors – and consider various royal dynasties from this perspective
MangaDex — Read comics and manga online at MangaDex, with high quality images and support creators and translators!
Comic book artists used to trace photos and nobody cared. Then one guy got caught doing it in the 1990s and the internet decided it was cheating forever.
The Raspberry Pi's 15-year reign is quietly ending—here's why — The Raspberry Pi is starting to feel like a square peg in a round hole.
How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel — A Princeton University dropout who spent much of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that come up in his work again and again—old…
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny — “Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) – Shon Czinner’s Blog — Harold Hotelling’s 1936 Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) forms the theoretical and intuitive foundation for modern embedding prediction techniques, including JEPA models.
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for August 9, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
comic panel analysis that actually breaks down why certain angles make you uncomfortable — the geometry of dread 📐
Why and how we extended Polars with Rust expression plugins for fenic | fenic blog — The text operations an AI pipeline needs — chunking, prompt templating, jq, fuzzy matching, markdown and transcript parsing — aren't in Polars, and Python UDFs are slow and break composition.…
this graphic novel is literally just sequential stills from a security camera watching a guy decide whether to text his ex for three hours