Chess Peace is an iOS puzzle game where you have to place chess pieces on a board so that none of them attack each other. Simple + clever!
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
#TidePartner One tile. Six layers. Somehow still cleaner than I deserve to be. @tidelaundry
#RealLaundryMagic #TideEvo
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Jake Messing’s Hyperrealistic Paintings Celebrate the Abundance of Nature
The Northern California-based artist explores nature as a reflection of our inner lives.
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One of the coolest things about honey is its...
One of the coolest things about honey is its theoretically infinite shelf-life. 3000-year-old jars of still-edible honey have been found in Egyptian tombs — they used it medicinally for all sorts of things.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Greatest Match Cut in Cinematic History, Improved by Amazon Prime
I’m sure there’s a scene marker right at the cut, so that’s why an ad got inserted there. But, my god. Someone at Amazon should go to prison for this.
(I think it’s a total coincidence that the Febreze ad seems roughly color-matched to the sky. But scroll down in the Bluesky thread for some links to the absolute genius campaign from Cerveza Cristal beer, with spots specifically designed to integrate into Star Wars when it was broadcast on commercial TV in Chile. “Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough” might be the funniest TV commercial ever made.)
Update: Here’s Todd Vaziri’s 2026 HD remaster of the original jump cut, for your comparison. Enjoy.
Link: bsky.app/profile/gethill.bsky.social/post/3ml6fyfv7kc2l
Iran considering US proposal to end the war
Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth
Ok, this is incredible: this person on Reddit discovered that if you take a bunch of the sequential photos of the Earth captured by the Artemis II crew and animate them, you can see that some of what appear to be stars are actually satellites, buzzing around the Earth like flies. You can see them really clearly in Seán Doran’s remastered animation. Totally totally gobsmacking. Literally awesome.
Tags: artemis · astronomy · Earth · photography · science · Sean Doran · space
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
I Want to Live Like Costco People
"Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco."
“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone...
“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts. By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”.
Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous,...
Lines, Ranked. “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous, but hot damn is it effective.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Irina Werning Chronicles 18 Years of Photographing ‘Las Pelilargas’ in a New Book
Werning's chronicle of a time-honored Latin American Indigenous tradition highlights patience, joy, and cultural pride.
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Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Ever New
"In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music, the present moment is an astonishing, improbable gift."
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Opposable Thumbs
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
Longreads
• Longreads
Open Season

Couples looking for surrogates still going to Ukraine
Stanley Jordan playing melodies with both hands #guitarist #guitar #shorts 
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis...
A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries. Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.