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Best of Luck With the Wall

In his film Best of Luck With the Wall, director Josh Begley takes us on a journey across the entire US/Mexico border. It’s a simple premise — a continuous display of 200,000 satellite images of the border from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico — but one that deliver...

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Reflections on OpenAI

Reflections on OpenAI Calvin French-Owen spent just over a year working at OpenAI, during which time the organization grew from 1,000 to 3,000 people and Calvin found himself in "the top 30% by tenure". His reflections on leaving are fascinating - absolutely crammed with det...

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“BuildMyTransit is a web app to design, visualize, and simulate New York...

BuildMyTransit is a web app to design, visualize, and simulate New York City subway systems. Perfect for exploring ‘what-if’ scenarios.” You can design new routes, add/remove trains, and run simulations.

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The Party of ‘Free Speech’

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David A. Graham, writing at The Atlantic: Not that long ago, believe it or not, Donald Trump ran for president as the candidate who would defend the First Amendment. He warned that a “sinister group of Deep State bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists,...

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Historical Tech Tree. “The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological...

Historical Tech Tree. “The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today. A work in progress, it currently contains 1890 technologies and 2192 connections between them.”

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The Best Brushes Are the Ones You Make Yourself

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes.

Manufactured things are, you know, have a certain form. Like a manufactured brush; they’re all really fine. The factory trying to make as fine as they could, but when you use it, all the lines come out smooth and beautiful. But sometimes, I think it’s too perfect, because I really love the rough surface of a rock or the big tree trunk.

Wang’s work is currently on display at The Huntington near LA in San Marino, CA.

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Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor. “He has betrayed the very system that...

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor. “He has betrayed the very system that made his success possible; the system in which he and a handful of others like him have profited disproportionately relative to their contribution.”

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Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning. “The United States is being...

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning. “The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn’t making that clear.”

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xAI: "We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated"

xAI: "We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated" They continue: One was that if you ask it "What is your surname?" it doesn't have one so it searches the internet leading to undesirable results, such as when its sear...

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How Was the Wheel Invented? “How did an obscure, scientifically naive mining...

How Was the Wheel Invented? “How did an obscure, scientifically naive mining society discover the wheel, when highly advanced civilizations, such as the ancient Egyptians, did not?”

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This is great: a proposed “poli-sci course that equips one for modern...

This is great: a proposed “poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts”.

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Good lord, the World Cup is going to be a total shitshow...

Good lord, the World Cup is going to be a total shitshow next year. And the 2028 LA Olympics. A jingoistic facade papering over a faded superpower careening towards ruin.

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🎬 Natural Born Killers

Movie poster for “Natural Born Killers”.

Greatly enjoyed this one. The two are just so sweet. So, I loved Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis here. Tommy Lee Jones was great, too. Greatly reminded me of Wild At Heart. Story and proposition is great two. Reminded me partly of Nightcrawler. And it is just overall funny and weird with wild camera work, which reminded me of Climax. But I would’ve enjoyed one more action scene like the one at the diner at the beginning.

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🎬 L.A. Confidential

Movie poster for “L.A. Confidential”.

I liked this overall. It’s a wild chase with ever more intrigues and entanglements coming to light. I especially liked Guy Pearce’s character and performance. But I couldn’t fully enjoy this on a first watch, as this was so fast paced and has this rather complex plot (watching in to me non-native English didn’t quite help, either), that I had the constant feeling of having missed something. Luckily they actually explain more and more towards the end, and I could more and more shake that feeling. Still, maybe a candidate for a second watch.

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‘It’s Complicated’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Mina Kimes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and ESPN’s Mina Kimes are having an affair with Agnes Adler’s husband as they revisit Nancy Meyers's 2009 romantic comedy ‘It’s Complicated’—starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nair, and Jack Sanders Book your next business trip at holidayinn.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Unsolved Physics Problems

'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??

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‘Elon Musk Gives Himself Another Handshake’

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Nick Heer, Pixel Envy on the news that SpaceX “invested” $2 billion in the xAI money pit: This comes just a few months after xAI acquired X, one year after Musk shifted a bunch of Tesla-bound Nvidia GPUs to xAI, and just a few years after he used staff from Tesla to work...

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Lee Elia, Former Major League Manager, Dies at 87

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Steve Berman, The Athletic: Lee Elia, who managed the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs for two seasons apiece but is perhaps best known for a profane postgame rant critical of Chicago fans, died on Wednesday. He was 87. The Phillies announced his death in a stateme...

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Application development without programmers

Application development without programmers This book by James Martin, published in 1982, includes the following in the preface: Applications development did not change much for 20 years, but now a new wave is crashing in. A rich diversity of nonprocedural techniques and la...