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“I don’t think any human being is truly free. We’re so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it’s human nature that we’re never going to be free.” · EMILY SALIERS

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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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    • Issue 050: Fine Specimens is out today
    • A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!
  • AI is my CMS Chris Coyier

    I mean… it’s not really, of course. I just thought such a thing would start to trickle out to people’s minds as agentic workflows start to take hold. AI agents are already up in your…

    Today · 09:58
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    • Claude is an Electron App
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  • It’s an Open Thread Jason Kottke

    Since the comments are back open and folks here can now share a little about themselves with each other, I thought I’d open this post up for whatever you guys want to chat about. What are…

    Today · 09:20
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    • Craig Mod is software bonkers . “I’m...
    • Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US ....
    • Yet another graph showing that when you control for...
    • Potoooooooo was an 18th-century British racehorse whose...
    • “Presolar grains” (microscopic crystals that...
    • Lego Sets Remixed
    • This is great: Channel Surfer is “a retro TV...
    • coulou’s vinyl cafe (no. 4) - rainy day selections...
    • The Void Would Very Much Like You to Stop Screaming Into...
    • Clive Thompson wrote about coding with AI agents ....
    • A Miraculous Escape
    • “We took an ancient vice…put it on...
    • Ballot Guessr : “GeoGuessr for politics. See a...
    • AI Is Rewiring How the World’s Best Go Players...
    • A printable zine: 50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor ....
    • Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books...
    • This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
    • The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture ....
    • There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs,...
    • Africa (Toto) But It Lists Every Country in Africa
    • Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in...
    • Wow, KDO pal and explorer Ariel Waldman has her own show...
    • Georg Cantor is celebrated for revolutionizing...
    • “ 8 in 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to...
    • Jamelle Bouie Interview on Work Is Four Letters
    • Draw your own constellations .
    • The Baskerville Punches
    • Amount Of Water Man Just Used To Wash Dish To Be Prize...
    • Syndicates of Capital
    • Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to...
    • Another recent HyperCard discovery (that isn’t...
    • “Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues...
    • Ghost Elephants
    • Github’s uptime lately seems…..concerning?
    • “Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported...
    • The Shape of Paris
    • The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model...
    • “A group of runners starts jogging around a...
    • Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky to...
    • “What if we taught students to use AI critically,...
    • New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a...
    • Gugusse and the Automaton
    • GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war...
    • The fish doorbell in Utrecht is back for another season!...
    • The Hidden Hope in the Darkness
    • The NY Times went back through a century of...
  • A die-cut above Jeffrey Zeldman

    Cover art for the 1971 prog-rock LP “Fearless,” by British band Family features a distinctive, die-cut cover design depicting the five band members gradually morphing into a single entity combinin…

    Today · 07:30
  • Studio Notes #75 Dan Cederholm

    Hello hello, and greetings to you. Here's issue #75 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🍋 I came across a new-to-me band that made me temporarily fee…

    Today · 06:00
  • Dog Rugs Tina Roth Eisenberg

    These dog rugs by Emily O’Leary are weird and fascinating.…

    Today · 03:44
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    • Protocol Cards
    • No Signal
    • Molly Guard
  • I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere Derek Sivers

    When I was in the music business, there was a record producer who lived in New Jersey, but refused to come into New York City. Anyone that wanted to meet with him had to drive all the way down to his…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • A web font strategy Jeremy Keith

    The Session has been online in some form since the late 1990s. That’s long before web fonts existed. To begin with, Times New Roman was the only game in town if you wanted serif type on a website…

    Two Days Ago · 08:17
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    • Testing browser support for `focusgroup`
    • Installing web apps
  • A Designer’s Thoughts About This Moment in AI Brad Frost

    I was walking my dog in the woods and decided to share my thoughts about the state of AI and the tension between the trajectory of AI companies and the designers/creators/makers of the world who are…

    Four Days Ago · 17:05
  • 🔗 I was at a funeral today and felt all the… Rob Weychert

    I was at a funeral today and felt all the appropriate funeral feelings but I also could not stop thinking about Coffin Flop 🔗 Go to this link Tagged: March 2026, pe…

    Four Days Ago · 14:31
  • ⇾ Congrats to my Friend Gavin Strange for 25 Years of Jamfactory Marc Thiele

    Gavin Strange celebrates 25 years of creating under the name of Jamfactory. Wow. And Yay! I’ve been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the…

    Four Days Ago · 01:39

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