Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free — An AI company is sending free cleaners door-to-door in a bid to train the robots it hopes one day will replace them.
Hand-bound notebook.
Steam Railway — The magazine of preserved steam.
parents documenting what their kids actually ate vs what they claimed to eat, with photos side by side. the gap is hilarious 📸
Watch Returning from China, Trump is Ambiguous Over Taiwan - Bloomberg — President Donald Trump said he made no commitment to Chinese President Xi Jinping over Taiwan, and would make a decision soon over a planned $14 billion arms deal with the island. Bloomberg White House Corre
Liz Gálvez "reframes" air conditioning with shade pavilion in Los Angeles — <p>Architect Liz Gálvez has created a pavilion in the courtyard of Los Angeles cultural organisations Materials & Applications and Craft Contemporary using cord and earthen blocks to showcase the…
Home - Soap Queen — Bath Fizzies Cold Process Soap Home Crafts Lip Products Lotion Melt & Pour Soap Soaks & Scrubs Woodgrain Soap Tutorial November 14, 2024 Filed Under: Bath & Body Tutorials, Cold Process SoapBramble Berry is lucky to be situated in the Pacific No
IAMPETH — IAMPETH is an international, non-profit association dedicated to practicing and preserving the beautiful arts of calligraphy, engrossing and fine penmanship
Meet the Cubans stuck in Mexico under Donald Trump’s deportation campaign — Cuba has often refused to accept deportations from the US. Where does that leave Cuban deportees under Trump?
Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (and Where They Slow Down) — One idea explains the whole mini PC category: unified memory lets a $2,000 box hold a 70B model no consumer GPU can fit, then decode it slowly. The roofline math, the…
Watch Japan's railways bloom: every station, 1872 to today — In 1872 Japan had a single railway line. Today the map carries more than 9,000 stations. Drag through 150 years and watch the network fill in — an interactive data map of every Japanese train station with a recorded ope
The Upside of Being an Only Child | Cup of Jo — "I never felt like I had a 'normal' family."
A brief history of Luddism — States ultimately decide how fast technology is adopted
The Atlantic's recent piece on kids and phones is the parenting essay of the year. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/
guy trained for a marathon by only running downhill for three months — his knees disagree but his 5k time is genuinely unhinged
Paper Kawaii - Origami Instructions, Tutorials & Diagrams — Paper Kawaii - origami instructions, diagrams, photo & video tutorials. Origami boxes, envelopes, flowers, books, bows, hearts, animals, stars, & more. ♥
Funiculars.net - (www.funiculars.net) — Bruse
#725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast — Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circui
watched someone deadlift with their eyes closed and it made way more sense why their form was suddenly perfect?
Started tracking my walks and realized I've been taking the same route for three years — turns out I just really like the way one particular corner smells like someone's grill.
There's a podcast where the host reads bad Amazon reviews of normal things for an hour. I listened to someone's genuine fury about a spatula and couldn't stop laughing for two days.
guy discovered his lower back pain vanished after he stopped doing the one exercise everyone recommends! lmao
This guy tracked his resting heart rate for 10 years and found the one thing that actually tanked it — not what you'd expect.
How my 2yo taught me constraint solving — My two-year-old son used a Brio wooden train set to explain constraint solving to his silly Dada.
when did kids stop asking 'why' after you answer and start just... accepting it? mine switched overnight and now i'm weirdly sad about it
Mindscape — Science, philosophy, and ideas.
watched someone deadlift with perfect form for six months straight and never add weight. turns out they were just solving a puzzle nobody asked them to solve?
La matematica: un talento che si disattiva | Raffaella Rumiati | TEDxCervia — Professoressa ordinaria di Neuropsicologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive, studia come il cervello impara, si adatta e si trasforma. I suoi studi rivelano che il talento non è innato né fisso: possiamo…
Piskel - Free online sprite editor — Piskel, free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.
Woodworking for engineers — Ingenious woodworking projects.
Janet Lansbury's RIE-based blog changed how I think about toddler tantrums. https://www.janetlansbury.com
Ologies by Topic — alie ward — Ologies episodes categorized by topic.
WhatsApp Beta Reveals iCloud Backup Alternative for iPhone — WhatsApp is developing a first-party cloud storage option for chat backups on iPhone, providing users with an alternative to iCloud for the first time, according to app tinkerer WABetaInfo. Code found in the WhatsApp…
My kid asked why I was tired and I said 'because adulting is hard' and now she tells people she's tired because 'kid-ing is hard' and honestly she's not wrong 😅
De Beers Makes Deep Diamond Price Cuts for Shrinking Buyers Club — De Beers has made some of the deepest ever cuts to its official diamond prices, potentially signaling an end to its years-long campaign to hold them well above the market rate.
At least two dead as heavy rains, floods strike central Texas — Officials in the southern state have seen new warning systems tested by the floods, after last year's deadly rainfall.
Best Pokémon TCG deal: Score almost 40% off the Mega Greninja ex Premium Collection with a 35% price cut — And it's even under $50 at TCGplayer.
a pediatrician made a chart of what kids actually need at each age and it's so much less stuff than the industry tells you 📊
there's a podcast where two people just read old internet forum posts from 2003 and neither of them understand the references — makes me feel less alone about not getting why anyone cared about that stuff
GIMP — GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor
A California farmer is giving away tons of nectarines that he's not allowed to sell — A California farmer has been giving away free nectarines this week amid a legal dispute with a food market and distributing company claiming exclusive rights over the variety of white…
Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share — Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
there's this podcast where people call in and someone just... identifies what song is stuck in their head by humming three notes. it's weirdly satisfying.
Third Coast International Audio Festival — Sound-rich audio stories from around the world, galore!
The History of English Podcast | The Spoken History of a Global Language — The story of our language.
A podcast where the host reads Reddit posts about people's strangest workplace moments, but he does a different voice for every character and gets progressively more invested in the drama.
my kid asked me why i was sad and i realized i couldn't remember the last time i wasn't thinking about something else 😶
mom friend just told me she lets her kids pick one "bad" thing to do daily so they stop sneaking everything. now her 7yo openly eats cereal for dinner twice a week and somehow this fixed the lying 💀
Your Friendly Neighborhood Hooters — The chain is attempting a wholesome revival. Will it work?
Game that reduces dementia risk clears amyloid from men’s brains — Playing a mental speed-training game seems to help the brain clear a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease in men, but may work in women through different mechanisms
Ben Bernanke appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Podchaser: The #1 Podcast Database & API — Search millions of podcasts to uncover reach, demographics, contacts, credits, sponsors, and more. Perfect for media buying, PR campaigns, and monitoring.
The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn — Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with a shrug of the shoulders – what changed?
Flow Club — Body-doubling focus sessions.
watched someone do pull-ups with a backpack full of books and realized i've been doing strength training wrong my entire life, it's just like, load bearing capacity is different than looking swole
Seed News - ByteDance Seed Team — One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing: Introducing Seedance 2.5
The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling — The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art & craft of storytelling. It has presented true & first person stories worldwide.
Maximum Fun | A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported – directly – by you! — Maximum Fun is your home on the internet for things that are awesome, with a network of podcasts to entertain and inform you.
someone made a searchable database of every podcast episode transcript from the last 5 years. you can actually find that one clip you half-remember hearing.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time — Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.