this guy read 10,000+ books and catalogued which ones actually stuck with him — the pattern analysis is unhinged in the best way 📚✨
How afraid should we be of jellyfish off UK shores? — Many people are scared of the jellyfish due to the fear of painful stings and the creature's unpredictable nature in the water.
Adobe's Project Indigo iPhone Camera App Now Offers Photography Advice — Adobe's authentic iPhone camera app goes all-in on AI.
MIT Prof. Explains How AI Can (& Can't) Help w/Coding: Part 1 — MIT Professor & CSAIL Associate Director & COO Armando Solar-Lezama: https://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/ Videographer: Adam Mikaelian, assisted by Jake Davidson Director: Rachel Gordon Producer: Alex Shipps
How Nature Imagined the Figment of You — It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, …
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the memory palace — A podcast and radio series by public radio producer Nate DiMeo.
Instagram now lets you rearrange your Photos grid - 9to5Mac — Instagram is rolling out one of its most requested features: the ability to manually reorder posts on your profile grid. Here’s how to do it.
Apple Store app may soon get an AI-powered shopping assistant - 9to5Mac — Apple has updated the Apple Store app’s privacy policy, adding terms regarding a yet-to-be-released virtual shopping assistant.
Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots — Hairmax’s LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex took only 90 seconds per treatment, and it produced visible results along my widening part.
Nikon Celebrates 101 Years of Microscopes With Look at the Hidden World of Photomicrography — Introducing a new generation of people to the hidden world of photomicrography.
The Politics of the Downwardly Mobile Professional Class — The debate over whether Graham Platner is “working class” comes at a time when more and more people are at risk of falling into it.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t — At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed an oasis of calm. Its sun-drenched courtyard, cobalt-blue walls, and sheltering gardens offered Leon Trotsky and Natalia…
Oscar's Dev Blog — Oscar's thoughts too large for a tweet
There's a podcast where the host interviews people about the one thing they quit and never looked back. Most of them describe relief. A few describe rage. Still thinking about the rage ones.
Paul Revere’s Unabridged Instructions — Light twelve lanterns and give yourself a mop-top haircut if it seems like more of a cultural invasion.
Nostos, or Homecoming: Why I Keep Returning to the Odyssey — The first time I read the Odyssey, I was sixteen years old. The fantastical creatures, the alien cultures, and the wily hero’s desperate search for home were all thrilling to me. I felt an uncanny …
How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff - Longreads — Writing is always going to be hard and why it's worth the struggle.
#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
NFC tags in your car beat Android Auto's voice controls for quick navigation — An analog option is better than asking Gemini for directions.
Have Billionaires Gone Too Far? — “We’ve seen them overplaying their hand,” the sociologist Brooke Harrington says. “They’re pillaging American cultural institutions. They’re pillaging democracy.”
The Millions — Books, Arts, and Culture
L'alba dentro l'imbrunire | Carmine Di Biccari | TEDxLiceo Marconi Pesaro Youth — E se conoscere non significasse semplicemente sapere di più, ma imparare a guardare il mondo con occhi diversi? Attraverso musica, filosofia, letteratura e incontri con culture lontane, questo…
L'Affaire Siloxane — How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station
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Don Nelson, second winningest coach in NBA history, dies at 86 — Don Nelson, the second winningest coach in NBA history and a five-time champion as a player, died at the age of 86 on Sunday.
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them — The journalist and author of the new book I Am Not a Robot on AI, new media, and covering the future.
A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike — “The Vivisectors,” by Missouri Williams, critiques the hollowness of contemporary life. But it’s tricky to gauge the book’s level of self-awareness.
Baseball’s Magna Carta Finds a New Home — In 1999, Frank Murray bid in a Sotheby’s auction and nabbed the “Laws of Base Ball,” a nineteenth-century document detailing early rules of America’s pastime. Now it’s worth two hundred and fifty times what he paid.
Ethnologue — Languages of the world.
there's a podcast where someone just reads Wikipedia articles about obscure 19th century inventions. it's genuinely better than anything with a production budget... bombing builds character I guess
Korean Stocks Slide as Cracks Emerge in World-Beating Rally — South Korea’s $4.9 trillion stock market is starting to flash signs of strain after a world-beating rally.
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5 non-FOSS apps I refuse to give up on Linux — Open-source and Linux are practically inseparable, but sometimes it is necessary.
Radiolab: Podcasts | WNYC Studios | Podcasts — Investigating a strange world.
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Skeptic — Popular Science. Nonpartisan. Reality-Based.
How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged — “Split the Lark — and You’ll find the Music, ” Emily Dickinson taunted the materialists, “Now, do you doubt that your Bird was true?” In the wake of On the Ori
Can Art Teach, and Should It Try? — Describing a work of art as “didactic” has become a way of writing it off. But works such as HBO’s “The Pitt” push us to reconsider the merits of trying to teach.
After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basically finished’ — The “harmony machine” will be out by the end of the year for “around £550.“
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past — A recent essay in The New Republic asks why historians have become such visible public voices during the Trump era. Katherine Kelaidis argues that figures such as Heather Cox Richardson,…
Just About Anyone Can Sell You GLP-1s Online Now — Welcome to the “Temu experience of telehealth,” where everyone from Grindr to MAGA influencers can open a virtual clinic selling weight loss drugs and more.
A FEMA Insider Says Morale Has Never Been Lower at the Embattled Agency — An employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency on the use of rescue aid as a political weapon, and how it might affect the agency’s ability to respond to the next emergency.
Japan’s Use of Fed Repo May Ease Pressure on Treasury Market — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s championing of a Federal Reserve facility Japan can use to boost the yen comes with the benefit of protecting the US bond market from excess sales.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast — A podcast that explores the collapse of different societies through history.
Agent Plugins — A portable package format for reusable components that extend AI agents.
Looksmaxxing for Dummies — How to outshine people and animals and things.
Camp Saw Folding Hand Saw #camping #amazonfinds — Camp Saw Folding Hand Saw #camping #amazonfinds
Hacker Public Radio (HPR) ~ The Technology Community Podcast — Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.
UFC 330: Live results and analysis for Makhachev vs. Machado Garry — Brett Okamoto and Dre Waters break down all the action from UFC 330 at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philly.
Five wounded in shooting at Virginia State University — Police found the gunshot victims near the university's residence halls.
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Descendents' Stephen Egerton Announces Solo Debut — Guitarist Stephen Egerton joined the Descendents, the great California hardcore punk band, in 1986, just before that band broke up. When the Descendents were no more, Egerton played in the offshoot All, and then he rejoined…
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon — Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
Alcohol. Manliness. Flushable Wipes. Since When Are These ‘Scams’? — It’s a young word with obscure origins. But the fact that it’s so common shows just how ubiquitous fraud seems today.
16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar - Longreads — "Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home."
Regular Show's eggscellent challenge in real life! — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Kimi: Threat or menace? | TechCrunch — Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."