Running local models is good now — Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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Be crazy enough to create your own luck | Sabrina Kaufmann | TEDxLuxembourgCity — Most people don't fail because they aren't talented enough. They fail because they never start. Drawing from her journey as a professional manga artist, Sabrina Kaufmann shows how taking imperfect…
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
Can we have the day off? — So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interac
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How a Childhood Bookmobile Sparked My Love of Reading — When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been the train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade be…
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.
Back in my day we hacked with style: a sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s tools — A nostalgic and slightly sardonic look at the tools, IRC channels, and cultural chaos that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s hacker scene.
Index of / — Every cartoon, catalogued.
comic panel analysis that actually breaks down why certain angles make you uncomfortable — the geometry of dread 📐
Helping YOU ask ME questions with AI — Here's how I've made it easier for you to call into the Call Kent podcast without having to record yourself and also make yourself anonymous using AI.
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Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media ban for kids — TikTok is also accused of “deceiving” parents about the content on its platform.
Bloomberg This Weekend 6/28/2026 — The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by Center for Strategic & International…
AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community — Provides resources for self-study for animation professionals, students, educators and researchers.
Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate our feeds — Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes — You can’t spell ‘apartment listing’ without AI.
Danbooru: Anime Image Board — Danbooru is the original anime image booru. Search millions of anime pictures categorized by thousands of tags.
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My Software North Star — Loris Cro's Blog
The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders — “Now is the time for Helter Skelter,” Charles Manson is said to have said, and then the family went out and committed two nights of violence that meant to “shock the world” and “instill fear into t…
Decision to resign after World Cup exit was easy - Clarke — Steve Clarke says it was an easy decision to step down as Scotland head coach because he always planned to depart if they did not qualify for the knock-out stages.
My favorite electric shaver is 40% off for Prime members — It's from a brand you've probably never heard of, but it gets the job done.
Could legal 'personhood' help save Lough Neagh? — Rights of Nature could give Lough Neagh the same status as a person, entitled to the same protections.
Motion — Watch amazing short films, motion graphics reels, and endlessly entertaining animated GIFs
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56 — French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
Why Mogadishu clashes are deepening Somalia’s political crisis again — Tensions over Somali elections escalate into violence, leaving Mogadishu residents grappling with fear and disruption.
Skeptic — Popular Science. Nonpartisan. Reality-Based.
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
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison…
Spring 2026 Anime Chart - Television — Spring 2026 anime list
artist spent two years drawing every panel of a 90s manga completely backwards and it somehow works... tell me you have too much time without telling me 😭
Safebooru - Anime picture search engine! — Safebooru is a anime and manga picture search engine, images are being updated hourly.
Living Lines Library — Behind-the-scenes animation.
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.
Sherritt Warns of Going-Concern Risk After Trump Cuba Sanctions — A Canadian miner that is one of Cuba’s biggest foreign investors warned investors that its ability to carry on as a going concern is in doubt after Donald Trump expanded US sanctions on the Caribbean nation.
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James — “It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.”
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community — Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Zerochan HQ Anime Imageboard — Anime image gallery.
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew the same panel twice by mistake — but the second time the villain's expression changed just enough that it completely rewrites what he was thinking. Ten year old me never noticed.
Random Anime Generator | RandomAnime.org — Looking for a random anime to watch? My random anime generator pulls from a continuously growing database to help you find your next favorite anime.
AI and Cloud Costs — AI has a cost problem. The solution that will emerge will be simpler than we expect.
‘Cielo’ Review: A Swallowed Goldfish Sparks a Morbidly Magical Journey Through the Infinite Possibilities of Childhood — 'Cielo' suggests that the nuanced views that accompany adulthood might be inferior to a child's certainty that everything is going to work out.
MangaUpdates — Manga is basically the Japanese equivalent of what you might know as comic books. They have a very unique style which has developed over many years. We hope here you can learn to appreciate the art that is manga and become an avid manga fan!
Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights - Crunchyroll News — Stay on top of anime news and updates straight out of Japan with Crunchyroll News. From breaking stories to evergreen content, get all your anime and manga news updates in one place. You heard it here first!
What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel? — I gave my book to my partner before I gave it to my parents, figuring it was better to conquer one gut-churning fear at a time. I refused to watch him read it, but I was aware when he reached the s…
Poor Pod Counts Signal Sharp Drop in Ivory Coast Cocoa Crop — The cocoa crop in top grower Ivory Coast could fall by about a fifth in the next season as the number of pods on trees lags, risking tighter global supplies, according to traders surveyed by Bloomberg.
Why we rewrote WAL-G for Postgres backups in Rust: Meet WAL-RUS | ClickHouse — How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.
Mexico rampant at fortress Azteca - and England could be next — Mexico have won all four games and not conceded a goal at this World Cup. Their last-16 opponents must also contend with playing at the Azteca Stadium.
The Kindle app for iOS has features your aging Kindle doesn't — Amazon's Kindle AI features help you read beyond the lines, so long as you have the right ereader.
Tofugu — A Japanese Culture & Language Blog — Japanese language and culture.
Bird Migration Explorer — The Bird Migration Explorer is your guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way.
I’ll Take the Fire — One night in November 2021, I lost my sense of taste and smell. There was a woman sleeping in my bed. I licked her shoulder, buried my nose in her neck. I moved my face down between her legs. I cou…
What’s behind the deadly bombing of a crowded Damascus cafe? — The blast near Damascus's main courthouse killed five and wounded 16 as Syria's new state battles to enforce security.
DOJ cracks down on illegal World Cup streams in 'Operation Offsides' — Operation Offsides took hundreds of domains offline as officials warn that sketchy streams can come with real risks.
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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.
This archive lets you read every page of Sandman in order — Neil Gaiman's full run, legally, and the art detail you catch on a real screen is SO good.