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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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  • A week on the moors Simon Collison

    I’ve just spent a week in a beautiful converted barn on the edge of Saddleworth. Nothing restores my positivity quite like being…

    Today · 06:30
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    • Happy 15th, Beyond Tellerrand!
  • The Self-Defeating Both-Sidesism of the US Press Jason Kottke

    Greg Sargent writing for The New Republic: There’s no clean way to hive off terms like fascism or authoritarianism from Trump’s policies. Even if you disagree that the words apply, the…

    Yesterday · 16:20
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    • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on magical thinking and elite impunity...
    • Crocheted Technology
    • Livestream of the Big Bear bald eagle nest (perched 145...
    • Presidents Can Be Impeached Because Benjamin Franklin...
    • Thoughtful thread on the armed man who rushed the WHCA...
    • “Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, often found in...
    • Teaser trailer for season four of Star Trek: Strange New...
    • Sombrero Galaxy: The Universe’s Dusty Brimmed Hat
    • Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump Dinner Shooting Defines a...
    • Daredevil Michelle Khare ran 7 marathons on 7 different...
    • Moderna developed an mRNA Covid-flu combo vaccine and...
    • Paul Ford: This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies ....
    • Wow, Sabastian Sawe set a world record with a 1:59:30...
    • Vintage Weekly Bus Passes
    • A papyrus of part of the Iliad has been discovered in a...
    • “We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation...
    • Tenfold Knottiness
    • Instead of Losing Democratic Elections, What If We Just...
    • How The Heck Does Shazam Work? “By throwing away...
    • It’s Friday, Let’s Do an Open Thread
    • 1D Chess . “You might initially find it more...
    • Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed on the Michael...
    • Twin Peaks × LCD Soundsystem: a video mashup of Dance...
    • ProPublica explores what a future without vaccines would...
    • The earliest-known recordings of whale songs (from 1949)...
    • Eye Contact With a Humpback Whale
    • Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s....
    • Peak Cherry Blossoms
    • If you want to surf elsewhere in the galaxy, it...
    • Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy
    • I love the chutzpah of this: all 35 of...
  • Canvas-ing the Web Eric Meyer

    A practical use case for rendering HTML+CSS to a canvas, an emerging API being previewed in Chrome.…

    Yesterday · 08:20
  • My favorite LLM prompt: “List the top cities in {COUNTRY}, and anthropomorphize each one, listing the good-natured stereotypes and jokes that other people in {COUNTRY} say about people in this city.” Derek Sivers

    My favorite LLM prompt: “List the top cities in {COUNTRY}, and anthropomorphize each one, listing the good-natured stereotypes and jokes that other people in {COUNTRY} say about people in this city.…

    Two Days Ago · 18:35
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    • Good book on cultural psychology: Tribal. Great insights and examples of how change happens on the personal, cultural, and institutional level. My notes at https://sive.rs/book/Tribal
    • Fascinating book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - https://sive.rs/book/Conscious19 - uses one true story, 19 times, of the laughing brain patient - https://sive.rs/u12 - in the format of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - https://sive.rs/book/WangWei - to explore the subject.
  • Bette Midler sings Woodie Guthrie Chris Coyier

    80 years old and killing it.…

    Two Days Ago · 08:56
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    • AI & Alignment
    • It’s an assumed truth that Safari is better for battery life — without data to support it.
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 4/25 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:The Fisher KingTerry Gilliam, 1991, ★★½The RingGore Verbinski, 2002, ★★½ Tagged: April 2026 Reply via email…

    Three Days Ago · 22:00
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    • The Ring Two
  • Whale Eye Tina Roth Eisenberg

    In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whale’s eye. Whoa! (Via Kottke)…

    Three Days Ago · 11:50
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    • Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
    • Soft Reform. Radical Reform. Beyond Reform.
    • Show Up. Be Kind. Know Yourself.
  • Studio Notes #81 Dan Cederholm

    Happy April 24th, Y’all. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🕹️ Current MIT students paid homage to a legendary 201…

    Four Days Ago · 06:00
  • Summary punishment Jeremy Keith

    In the latest issue of Matthias’s excellent Own Your Web series, he describes the recent betrayal by Google: The search engine no longer says “here, go read what this person wrote.” It now…

    The Other Day · 08:45
  • Building Healthy Community with Ben Callahan Brad Frost

    On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I got to talk with my friend, fellow traveler, and recent collaborator, Ben Callahan. Ben and I met at BDConf many many moons ago, and since then we’ve sh…

    The Other Day · 07:38
  • Good designers, bad websites: a proposal A List Apart

    I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. The…

    The Other Day · 06:57

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