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So This is Peak Smartphone

So This is Peak Smartphone
So This is Peak Smartphone

Peak slab phone in 2026 looks a lot like a camera attached to a phone Auto Focus shot on Oppo Find X9 Ultra: https://youtu.be/9s69aThM7rA?si=x8qW7F4MorY2qgRp MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 Phone provided by Oppo for review. ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD

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Quoting Andreas Påhlsson-Notini

AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of patience, lack of focus. Faced with an awkward task, they drift towards the familiar. Faced with hard constraints, they start negotiating with reality.

Andreas Påhlsson-Notini, Less human AI agents, please.

Tags: ai-agents, coding-agents, ai

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scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles

scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles

I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles.

The heading says "Pelican Riding a Bicycle #1 - the image is a bear on a snowboard

(To be fair, most of the examples I've published count as poisoning too.)

Via Hacker News comment

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, training-data, pelican-riding-a-bicycle

Accidental Tech Podcast

688: A Company Man

02:06:13
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ Follow-up: GL.iNet KVM security issues? Mark Wadham’s write-up Dan Godin at Ars Technica MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn) Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon More component delays It’s Ternus time Fashi...

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Jason Kottke

Teaser Trailer for Silo Season Three

As I watched the teaser trailer for season three of Silo, I discovered that I am very much looking forward to this new season. July 3, 2026.

Tags: silo · trailers · TV · video

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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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Jason Kottke

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

24:56
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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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.”

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Updates instantly via WebSub

Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think

Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think
Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think
Discover Odoo 👉 https://www.odoo.com/r/ysX The first app is free for life. Thanks to Odoo for sponsoring this video! Our LIMITED EDITION Visiting Comet Pin is here: https://shop.kgs.link/collectibles! Only 10,000 exist, and each one is individually numbered. Plus, our first ...

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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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• Peter Rubin

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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• Peter Rubin

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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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The Wayfinders

diagram of soccer field with orange curving lines showing movement. ocean background.
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.