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llm-openrouter 0.6

Release: llm-openrouter 0.6

  • llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire.

I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there.

Here's its pelican - this time as an HTML page because Kimi chose to include an HTML and JavaScript UI to control the animation. Transcript here.

The bicycle is about right. The pelican is OK. It is pedaling furiously and flapping its wings a bit. Controls below the animation provide a pause button and sliders for controlling the speed and the wing flap.

Tags: openrouter, llm, llm-release, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, kimi, ai-in-china, llms, ai, generative-ai

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Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine :...

Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine: “Nearly 90% of people whose immune systems responded to the vaccine were still alive up to six years after receiving the last treatment. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is around 13%…”

Global News Podcast

Trump says US in 'very strong position' for Iran talks

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The US-Iran ceasefire deal is set to end on Wednesday but Donald Trump says he does not want to extend the deadline. The US President believes the US is in a very strong negotiating position. Iran has not yet confirmed if it will attend peace talks in Islamabad. The US vice-...

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Jason Kottke

“ NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life of Earth.” And: “We think we’re looking at organic matter that’s been preserved on Mars for 3.5bn years.”

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Jason Kottke

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary...

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. “The word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see tomorrow.”

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Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think

Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think
Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think
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Jason Kottke

ReciproCard : “Start by searching for your home...

ReciproCard: “Start by searching for your home library above to instantly see every free reciprocal agreement you qualify for.” Use this to have more options for Libby ebooks.

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Jason Kottke

“ The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a...

The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a reverse-lookup for speculative fiction. Describe a situation you are facing, and find the SF stories that already worked through the implications.”

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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

"For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters."

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Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility

Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and FragilityThe artist “questions our relationship to objects, their use value, and their narrative potential.”

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility appeared first on Colossal.

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How to Crash

"I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull."

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The Wayfinders

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The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.

Global News Podcast

Uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks

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Iran's chief negotiator has cast fresh doubt on whether a second round of peace talks with the United States will go ahead in Pakistan. Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf said Tehran would not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats, and was prepared to show "new cards on the b...

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• John Gruber

★ Another Day Has Come

It’s a profoundly different feeling today than the last time Apple’s CEO announced his transition to chairman of the board, and his chosen successor was promoted to replace him as CEO. In August 2011, Steve Jobs was sick. For years he’d managed to stay a step, sometimes two...

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Types of Board Game

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.

The Rewatchables

‘Kindergarten Cop’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt just need to know one simple thing: Who is your daddy, and what does he do? The guys head to Astoria, Oregon, to revisit Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘Kindergarten Cop,’ also starring Pamela Reed and Richard Tyson. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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‘Community Letter From Tim’

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Tim Cook, in a letter addressed, simply, “To the Apple community”: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share little pieces of your...

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DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back

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Thumbnail of a classic Daring Fireball logo t-shirt.

Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. Go ahead and place your order now, while I gather my thoughts about today’s Apple leadership news.

Link: store.daringfireball.net/

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Apple: ‘Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO’

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Apple Newsroom, with a veritable “boom”: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, ...

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• Seyward Darby

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

"That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture—of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly."