Reflections on OpenAI
“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.
The Party of ‘Free Speech’
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Historical Tech Tree. “The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological...
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...
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning. “The United States is being...
xAI: "We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated"
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How Was the Wheel Invented? “How did an obscure, scientifically naive mining...
This is great: a proposed “poli-sci course that equips one for modern...
Good lord, the World Cup is going to be a total shitshow...
🎬 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.
🎬 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.
‘It’s Complicated’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Mina Kimes
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Unsolved Physics Problems
‘Elon Musk Gives Himself Another Handshake’
Lee Elia, Former Major League Manager, Dies at 87
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