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Jason Kottke

On May 22, Boards of Canada is doing a handful of...

On May 22, Boards of Canada is doing a handful of listening parties around the world (NYC, Tokyo, London, etc.) for their new album. “Tickets live Friday 1 May. Sign up for access by Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST.”

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The most viewed Kickstarter of all time

The most viewed Kickstarter of all time
The most viewed Kickstarter of all time

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• Tom Warren

Microsoft is giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants everyone to know: "We are Xbox." Just last week, she scrapped Microsoft Gaming as the name of Microsoft's gaming division in favor of simply Xbox. Now, to reinforce that message, sources at Xbox tell me that all Xbox employees are getting an @xbox.com email address next month. The new Xbox […]

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Russia scales back Moscow Victory Day parade

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Russia has announced that its annual military parade in Moscow, which commemorates its victory in World War Two, will be scaled back this year because of the threat from Ukraine. For the first time since 1945, there will be no armoured vehicles or missiles systems on show ac...

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Jason Kottke

Holy moly, DJ Shadow is doing a 30th anniversary tour...

Holy moly, DJ Shadow is doing a 30th anniversary tour for Endtroducing… Starts Sept 24 in San Diego. Endtroducing… is one of my all-time favorite albums.

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• John Gruber

‘Elon Musk Appeared More Petty Than Prepared’

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Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting on Musk v. Altman from the courtroom in Oakland (gift link): Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in court. During his defamation ...

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Jason Kottke

I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What...

I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It. “I created an iOS app for Friendster, and I made it so that in order to connect with someone as a friend, you have to actually tap phones together in real life.”

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• John Gruber

‘Sordid and Small’

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Matteo Wong, covering Musk v. Altman for The Atlantic (gift link): Musk is asking that Altman be removed from OpenAI’s board, that the company convert back to a nonprofit, and for the return of allegedly “ill-gotten gains” — some $150 billion — which Musk says would go t...

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Jason Kottke

A Georgia teen diagnosed with a rare cancer used his...

A Georgia teen diagnosed with a rare cancer used his Make-A-Wish gift to help the homeless in his community. “I got out of my version of heck, and I want to help others who are in a similar situation, their own version.”

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The intelligence of LLMs is “a function of the...

The intelligence of LLMs is “a function of the social complexity of the civilization whose language it digested”, and their widespread use will lead to a thinning of that complexity, “undermining the conditions for its own advancement”. (And ours.)

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• John Gruber

OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years

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Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times from the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland (gift link): On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, two notably different tales were offered of how Open...

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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Asian Mothers, Bad Feelings: Notes on An All-conquering Stereotype

"A certain image of the tiger mom— strict, cold and demanding—is ubiquitous in popular culture. Why?"

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• John Gruber

Playing With Fire

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Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X: I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer management, vehicle tracki...

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Jason Kottke

Teaser trailer for season four of Ted Lasso . Looks like...

Teaser trailer for season four of Ted Lasso. Looks like he & Coach Beard are back in the UK to coach AFC Richmond’s women’s team. Premieres Aug 5 on Apple TV.

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• Krista Stevens

Up In Smoke

"I woke up one day to the realization that I had written ten good pages of a book that was due in five months."

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• Kate Mothes

Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial Images

Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial ImagesLandsat, a NASA and USGS program, has documented the surface of Earth from space since 1972.

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 Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial Images appeared first on Colossal.

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• Brendan Fitzgerald

Shall We Play a Game?

"Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement."

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• Adam Dalva

Was It Worth It?

A grid of iPhones sits atop a checkered tablecloth. Each phone shows a different image of red meat.
"I didn’t think about those nachos even once. I had never experienced anything like it. Is this, I asked my friends, how it feels to be normal?"

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Next Saturday: Forkalyst live at Haus Spilles, Düsseldorf!


Next event: Forkalyst Live on May 2, 2026, 19:00 at Haus Spilles, Düsseldorf.

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Happening this coming Saturday!