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• Jason Kottke

Hope Is a Risk

From Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies (Amazon):

Hope is a risk; especially when you've known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites. But despair is a concession. Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.

Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites.

But despair is a concession.

Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.

Tags: Cole Arthur Riley

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• Jason Kottke

“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for...

“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the studio announced Wednesday.” Bond + Villeneuve could be a potent combination.

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• Jason Kottke

How Field Notes Went From Side Project to Cult Notebook. “One by...

How Field Notes Went From Side Project to Cult Notebook. “One by one we fired all our clients because this Field Notes thing was getting bigger and taking up more of our time…”

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Global News Podcast

Iran crisis: your questions answered

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A special episode answering your questions about the Iran crisis. BBC experts discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions, possibilities of regime change and the impact on the wider Middle East.

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• Jason Kottke

Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The...

Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming. (I had to triple-check that this was indeed Rick Rubin the record producer…)

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• Jason Kottke

This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World

Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels through the Sahara Desert. One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to th...

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Geminiception

Yesterday Anthropic got a bunch of buzz out of their new window.claude.complete() API which allows Claude Artifacts to run their own API calls. It turns out Gemini had beaten them to that feature by over a month, but the announcement was tucked away in a bullet point of thei...

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• Jason Kottke

The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is...

The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is now mostly just re-running strips from its archive, updated for modern times.

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• Jason Kottke

Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts....

Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts.

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New sandboxes from Cloudflare and Vercel

Two interesting new products for running code in a sandbox today. Cloudflare launched their Containers product in open beta, and added a new Sandbox library for Cloudflare Workers that can run commands in a "secure, container-based environment": import { getSandbox } from "@...

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• John Gruber

Denis Villeneuve to Direct Next James Bond Film

deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm-studios-1236442917/

Good pick. I feel great about this.

Link: deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm…

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Build and share AI-powered apps with Claude

Build and share AI-powered apps with Claude Anthropic have added one of the most important missing features to Claude Artifacts: apps built as artifacts now have the ability to run their own prompts against Claude via a new API. Claude Artifacts are web apps that run in a st...

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• Jason Kottke

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network....

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network. “The new film isn’t a ‘January 6’ movie and will focus not just on the 2020 election but also Facebook’s effect on teens, preteens, violence and countries outside the U.S.”

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• Jason Kottke

What Was Jim Crow?

This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverberate in American society and politics today. If you are an American watching this, and you had a standard social studies or history class in h...

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Quoting Christoph Niemann

Creating art is a nonlinear process. I start with a rough goal. But then I head into dead ends and get lost or stuck.

The secret to my process is to be on high alert in this deep jungle for unexpected twists and turns, because this is where a new idea is born.

I can't make art when I'm excluded from the most crucial moments.

— Christoph Niemann, An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art

Tags: art, ai, generative-ai

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• Jason Kottke

A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots...

A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots of screenshotted examples.

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Weather Balloons

Once you add the balloons into the model, it makes forecasting easier overall--the forecast is always 'cold and dark, with minimal solar-driven convection.'

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• John Gruber

Lake Tahoe Boat Tragedy Claims Longtime Apple Employee Paula Bozinovich

sfchronicle.com/tahoe/article/lake-tahoe-boat-accident-victims-identified-june-20391411.php

Some sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle (News+ link): The eight people killed in a sudden storm while boating on Lake Tahoe over the weekend were a close-knit group of friends and family members who had gathered for a birthday celebration, according to a spokesperson ...

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• Jason Kottke

How Christoph Niemann Uses AI in His Work

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingly) in his work: Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art. Creating art is a nonlinear process. I start with a rough goal. B...

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Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI First there was Claude Code in February, then OpenAI Codex (CLI) in April, and now Gemini CLI in June. All three of the largest AI labs now have their own version of what I am calling a "terminal agent" - a CLI tool that can read and write files and execute comman...