“South Korea imports more kimchi than it exports, and the gap has widened as cheaper Chinese-made products take hold in the domestic market.”
A group of students at a New Mexico college (mostly) gave up...
A group of students at a New Mexico college (mostly) gave up their phones & computers for a week. What did they learn? “Most students said they had gotten to know themselves better without their phones butting in all day long.”
MTV Rewind
MTV Rewind is an interface through which you can watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, Headbangers Ball, and the first full day of MTV programming.
All of the music videos, more than 33,000 of them, are hosted on YouTube and the lists of videos come from The Internet Music Video Database. Great idea and execution…this is the closest you’ll get to watching MTV back in the 80s.
The proliferation of hummingbird feeders has become a “major evolutionary force” for...
The proliferation of hummingbird feeders has become a “major evolutionary force” for the Anna’s hummingbird species in the western US. “Over just a few generations, their beaks have dramatically changed in size and shape.”
🎬 Arctic
Like Cast Away in the snow. I would have like a little more reasoning regarding why he was in the situation in the first place. But I enjoyed Mads Mikkelsen and some great winter landscapes.
🎬 Sleuth
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.
Quite a clever movie. Was genuinely surprised.
👍 Recommended!
Quoting Robin Sloan
AGI is here! When exactly it arrived, we’ll never know; whether it was one company’s Pro or another company’s Pro Max (Eddie Bauer Edition) that tip-toed first across the line … you may debate. But generality has been achieved, & now we can proceed to new questions. [.....
Lost episodes of Star Trek from the 70s. They were going to...
Lost episodes of Star Trek from the 70s. They were going to do a reboot of the TV series (without Spock!) but the project morphed into the first movie. There are 19 episode scripts & treatments from the project; a few were adapted for ST:TNG.
Howard Oakley on the MacOS 26 Tahoe UI
eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief/
Howard Oakley, writing at The Eclectic Light Company
macOS Tahoe’s visual interface:
Fits largely rectangular contents into windows with excessively
rounded corners.
Enlarges controls without any functional benefit.
Results in app icons being more uniform, thus less
di...
Robin Sloan asserts (provocatively) that AGI is already here (and has been...
Robin Sloan asserts (provocatively) that AGI is already here (and has been for a few years). “We’ve got this ubiquitous term, Artificial General Intelligence, & it appears that the Artificial Intelligence has become Really Very General, so … ?”
‘Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help’
Jim Nielsen:
It’s extra noise to me. It’s not that I think menu items should
never have icons. I think they can be incredibly useful (more on
that below). It’s more that I don’t like the idea of “give each
menu item an icon” being the default approach.
This posture lend...
A field guide to sandboxes for AI
A field guide to sandboxes for AI
This guide to the current sandboxing landscape by Luis Cardoso is comprehensive, dense and absolutely fantastic.He starts by differentiating between containers (which share the host kernel), microVMs (their own guest kernel behind hardwae virtualization), gVisor userspace kernels and WebAssembly/isolates that constrain everything within a runtime.
The piece then dives deep into terminology, approaches and the landscape of existing tools.
I think using the right sandboxes to safely run untrusted code is one of the most important problems to solve in 2026. This guide is an invaluable starting point.
Via lobste.rs
Tags: sandboxing, ai, generative-ai, llms
The Story of Czech Graphic Design
Identity — The Story of Czech Graphic Design is a seven-part series available on YouTube.
In seven parts, the Identita series introduces viewers to the history of Czech graphic design. We will not only explore together the development of the visual face of the Czechoslovak Republic, we will also reveal what is hidden behind the symbols, signs and colors that represent it.
Tags: Czech Republic · design · video
‘The Big Regression’
Jason Fried:
My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented
them a house nearby.
It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up
with state of the art systems. You know, the ones with
touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and...
“Norman Rockwell was antifa”, says Daisy Rockwell, Norman’s granddaughter. “So you’ll understand...
“Norman Rockwell was antifa”, says Daisy Rockwell, Norman’s granddaughter. “So you’ll understand her indignation when President Trump began hijacking her grandfather’s legacy to promote what she considers modern-day fascism.”
‘Who’s Who at X, the Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter’
The Financial Times has a nice illustrated guide to the leadership team at Twitter/X, where things are going about as you’d expect.
A Collection of Unreleased Boards of Canada Tracks
A couple of weeks ago, someone uploaded to YouTube and Google Drive eleven unreleased tracks from Boards of Canada (made from 1985-1996). This seems to be a legit, high-quality leak, judging from the excitement in the YT comments and on Reddit. I’ve heard a couple of these before, courtesy of some long-ago Kazaa/Limewire crate-digging, but most of these are new to me. (via the morning news)
Tags: Boards of Canada · music · video
This sucks: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. “Its board...
This sucks: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. “Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.” GOP ghouls finally killed it.
The Detectorists — A Short Film About Otters and Detection Dogs.
An ecologist in Wales uses tracking dogs to help track & protect the endangered wild otter population; meet The Detectorists.
Set against the serene backdrop of rural Wales, this short documentary follows wildlife ecologist Lee Jenkins and his two German Pointers — Neo and pup-in-training Cariad — as they search for elusive otters. Using scent detection to guide camera trap placement, the team gathers crucial evidence to protect these endangered animals. Shot from a dog’s-eye view with immersive cinematography, the film offers a poetic glimpse into conservation through the nose and eyes of a canine detective.
Don Mattingly Joins Phillies as Bench Coach
nytimes.com/athletic/6942357/2026/01/05/don-mattingly-hired-bench-coach-phillies/
Welcome to Philadelphia, Donnie Baseball.
Link: nytimes.com/athletic/6942357/2026/01/05/don-mattingly-hired…