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“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” · JOHN MUIR

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  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
  • Hello 1403 Vintage Mono Delve Fonts

    1403 Vintage Mono was inspired by the IBM 1403 mainframe line printer from the 1960s. Jeff Kellem began his research for the project but printed samples were minimal, requiring a bit of guesswork fo…

    Today · 15:36
  • The trailer for Klara and the Sun , directed by Taika... Jason Kottke

    The trailer for Klara and the Sun, directed by Taika Waititi and based on the bestseller by Kazuo Ishiguro.…

    Today · 12:30
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    • AI Economics for Dummies . “The Wall Street...
    • Great piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on how “the portrait of...
    • A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011...
    • America vs Europe: Two Ways to Build a City
    • Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their...
    • Human brains were not designed to deal with an endless...
    • “Henry v Lalas Is the World Cup’s Most Compelling Battle”
    • This is probably the definitive post about web browsers...
    • The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books...
    • Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over...
    • Monty Python: The Philosophers’ Football Match
    • “The prevailing emotions among scientists right now...
    • The Founding Story Behind Japan’s Oldest Whisky Maker ....
    • Supermountains, the Boring Billion, and Their Connection to Life on Earth
    • Due to FIFA’s poor security practices, this person...
    • Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a...
    • Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan...
    • Assume You Will Be Hacked . “As AI tools have...
    • Why Lionel Messi is a genius on the football pitch .
    • Watch Baseball Games in Realtime in 8-Bit View
    • Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas...
    • A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens...
    • Book 1 of the Iliad, Read in Ancient Greek
    • The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...
  • The Real Revolution Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.” – Rebecca Sol…

    Today · 06:30
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    • My Retro TVs
    • MediSearch
    • Art by Luke St Leger
    • Infinite
    • Levels of Agency
    • Flawed and Complex Human
  • Find a new role - worksheet Lara Hogan

    Almost everybody I know is doing some math on longevity in their current role. Whether it’s moral math (should I go work for a place that’s doing more good in the world, despite it being less mone…

    Yesterday · 18:00
  • The Dice — 046 Greg Storey

    American Soccer Jon Tesh, get Paleolithic, I/O function for the soul, offline when cloudy, four hands holding light, blink tag forever, and a new Olympic bar.…

    Yesterday · 09:45
  • Paris and Épernay Simon Collison

    Photos from a few days in Paris and a short stay in Épernay: great food and fine fizz, record shop cats, showcase sumo, la Coupe d…

    Yesterday · 08:00
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    • The Major Oak is dead
    • David Hockney
  • The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop Josh Clark

    The New York Times explores the test kitchens of Big Medium’s longtime client People Inc. to explain the how and why of creating tons of original recipes to counter an onslaught of AI slop. W…

    Two Days Ago · 06:47
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    • Sinceerly: AI to Mess Up Your Writing
  • Studio Notes #89 Dan Cederholm

    Hello there, Esteemed Subscriber of Newsletters. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖨️ Designer and printmaker, Scott Bom…

    Three Days Ago · 05:00
  • A workaround for hiding empty slots in Chromium Dave Rupert

    Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button…

    Four Days Ago · 22:57
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    • Spoons by Sam
  • Stories Of Ireland by Brian Friel Jeremy Keith

    This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights. I think you can tell that these stories were written by someone who’s at home with the stage. The dialogue really shi…

    The Other Day · 13:18

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