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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • Claude’s Constitution Jason Kottke

    A couple of weeks ago, AI company Anthropic published the constitution that they use to train their Claude LLM (“under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Deed, meaning it can be freely used by any…

    Today · 11:29
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    • The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed...
    • Podcast interview with two photojournalists who have...
    • Haven’t watched this 90-minute video yet, but...
    • A group of 50 Chileans recently spent several hours...
    • Killing In The Name, The Minnesota Edition
    • The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been....
    • Elon Musk and other internet racists started an internet...
    • Early this month, a wily coyote swam across San Francisco...
    • Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie
    • The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed ....
    • Significant Find of Cambrian Explosion Fossils
    • Culinary Students Given Live Baby To Learn How To Care...
    • Volleyball Player Does Sliding Dogeza Apology
    • As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are...
    • The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis . “As thousands...
    • Autocratic backfire : when dictators construct echo...
    • Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial...
    • Do you know about the original vampire ending for Marty...
    • Tim Burton on Catherine O’Hara :...
    • ProPublica : “The two federal immigration agents...
    • Another brutal Melania pan : “First Lady is a...
    • When horrible people make bad art, the reviews are fun to...
    • “The end of Temporary Protected Status has...
    • Illustrator Chris Piascik has made several of his...
    • Stamps: Graphic Art in Miniature
    • I learned two important pieces of news in this post: 1)...
    • This guy built an autonomous flying umbrella (powered...
    • Spurious Correlations
    • Minnesota community leaders are calling for an...
    • A huge collection of graphic design archives and...
    • “There isn’t a lot of reliable information...
    • Prettifying Graffiti
  • Designing a Life That Excites You with Christine Vallaure | Wake Up Excited! Brad Frost

    On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I talk with my friend Christine Vallaure. Christine is a designer, speaker, and the founder of moonlearning, an online learning platform for UI and product d…

    Yesterday · 11:42
  • People Photographed With Their Vehicles Tina Roth Eisenberg

    People photographed with their vehicles. Made me smile.…

    Yesterday · 08:08
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    • Thinking Is The Enemy of Creatvity
    • Painted Rocks
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 1/31 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Carlito’s WayBrian De Palma, 1993, ★★Ricky Jay and His 52 AssistantsDavid Mamet, 1996, ★★★★Side EffectsSteven Soderbergh, 2013, ★★★Added to the music lib…

    Three Days Ago · 22:00
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    • Forever, I’ve Been Being Born
  • Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way Cassidy Williams

    Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.…

    Three Days Ago · 17:00
  • Studio Notes #69 Dan Cederholm

    Hi Folks,Normally we'd deliver quick bits to you, as we do every Friday. Today however, we are essentially closed for business; standing in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and all people…

    Four Days Ago · 10:14
  • Hand-me-down tools for school Derek Featherstone

    Tools I've used in my tech life that help my son in school…

    The Other Day · 19:33
  • Minimum viable image optimization Stoyan Stefanov

    This post is another installment of the series dedicated to building sightread.org. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. When I was writing the last blog post, it occurred to me that I'm still optimizing images by ha…

    The Other Day · 17:10

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