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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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    • beyond tellerrand 🇩🇪
  • Do I Belong in Tech Anymore? “Why am I here? Does... Jason Kottke

    Do I Belong in Tech Anymore? “Why am I here? Does any of this work actually matter? And if I stop caring about the quality of my work… will anyone notice?”…

    Today · 12:30
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    • “British energy major BP on Tuesday reported that...
    • I Love Boosters
    • On the Propaganda of Early Nazism, and How We See it in...
    • The Era of AI Malaise . “The AI has learned to...
    • It’s the Age of Electricity and America...
    • Elizabeth Kolbert’s profile of EPA head Lee Zeldin...
    • The Self-Defeating Both-Sidesism of the US Press
    • 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
  • When Sites Need to Walk Away Chris Coyier

    The Internet Archive has a new book: VANISHING CULTURE. (Digital copy is free.) According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the wh…

    Today · 10:58
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    • Bette Midler sings Woodie Guthrie
    • AI & Alignment
    • It’s an assumed truth that Safari is better for battery life — without data to support it.
  • Sister Ray Davies at The Library, Oxford Jon Hicks

    Sister Ray Davies, whose debut album Holy Island featured on my top 20 of 2025, played Oxford's diminutive The Library pub in Cowley Road last night. They're a dreamy shoegaze duo from Alabama's Muscl…

    Today · 06:35
  • 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!
  • Ring Rob Weychert

    Hideo Nakata, 1998, ★★ Our protagonist finds a cursed videotape that kills the viewer a week after they watch it, starts using her skills as a journalist to get to the bottom of it, a…

    Yesterday · 21:59
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    • Rings
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    • The Ring Two
  • 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
  • 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

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