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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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  • 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…

    Today · 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.…

    Today · 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.…

    Yesterday · 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.…

    Yesterday · 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…

    Two 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)…

    Two Days Ago · 11:50
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    • Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
    • Soft Reform. Radical Reform. Beyond Reform.
    • Show Up. Be Kind. Know Yourself.
    • Pantry Pants
    • Subscription Cost Visualizer
    • Project Gutenberg
    • Future Me
  • 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…

    Three 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…

    Four Days Ago · 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…

    Four Days Ago · 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…

    Four Days Ago · 06:57
  • What would a 2026 CSS Anthology look like? Rachel Andrew

    In 2004 I published the first edition of The CSS Anthology with Sitepoint. The idea for the book was to take the entire CSS 2.1 specification, and come up with 101 examples to show people how to use a…

    Four Days Ago · 01:40

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