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Amid the ongoing climate crisis, how do artists express concerns about water and the environment?

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Sleeping cleans your brain. Research suggests that zoning out, daydreaming, and being bored can perform a similar function without the need for deep sleep. So put down that phone occasionally and let your brain chill for a bit.

Tags: neuroscience · science · sleep · video

In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still terrorizing communities, kidnapping people off the streets, and destroying property in Minnesota. “The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance.”

Skills in OpenAI API OpenAI's adoption of Skills continues to gain ground. You can now use Skills directly in the OpenAI API with their shell tool. You can zip skills up and upload them first, but I think an even neater interface is the ability to send skills with the JSON r...

Fontemon is the world’s first video game in a font. “The entire game is enclosed in fontemon.otf, no javascript, no html, all font.”

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 754B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the size of GLM-4.7 which was 368B and 717GB (4.5 and 4.6 were around that size too).

It's interesting to see Z.ai take a position on what we should call professional software engineers building with LLMs - I've seen "Agentic Engineering" show up in a few other places recently. most notable from Andrej Karpathy and Addy Osmani.

I ran my "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" prompt through GLM-5 via OpenRouter and got back a very good pelican on a disappointing bicycle frame:

Via Hacker News

Tags: definitions, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, llm-release, vibe-coding, openrouter, ai-in-china, glm

Whether working in the studio or street, James Reka gravitates for vivid abstraction.

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The GOP goal of destroying the post office is coming along: the USPS is now so unreliable that newspaper delivery is delayed across the country. (My mail delivery is currently one bundle every week or two.)

cysqlite - a new sqlite driver Charles Leifer has been maintaining pysqlite3 - a fork of the Python standard library's sqlite3 module that makes it much easier to run upgraded SQLite versions - since 2018. He's been working on a ground-up Cython rewrite called cysqlite for a...

Hey gang. I took a couple of days off at the beginning of the week to visit some colleges with my daughter. She found a potential contender, one that was just fine, and a school that isn’t going to work for her — we both independently zoned out listening to the presentation ...

"The head is more than the center of the brain and thought; it is the place where the soul lives and must be protected," the artist says.

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Everyone’s living a life you know nothing about. Be kind.

“We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.”

A recommendation for a recent episode of the Heavyweight podcast on the Trump regime’s occupation of Minneapolis.

The Marías is a band from Los Angeles, made up of María Zardoya, Josh Conway, Jesse Perlman, and Edward James. They released their first EPs in 2017 and 2018, and their first album in 2021. But then, as you’ll hear, there was a period of a lot of uncertainty around the band’...

The BBC gains access to Iran for the first time since anti-government protests were brutally crushed. The country is marking the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in the shadow of last month's deadly crackdown and looming threats of US military action. Also: nine people are killed in a school shooting in Canada; Russia limits access to Telegram; England returns some of the bronzes looted from Benin; how to train your brain to reduce the risk of getting dementia; and what to watch at the Berlin Film Festival.

Notes on the Martian housing crisis

Panels of thick, gestural brushstrokes animate a story of loss, grief, and remembrance.

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Boafo is known for his stylized portraiture of Black people, whose skin the artist renders in swirling gestures made with his fingers.

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