Everyone's talking about the Fitbit Air
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Duke University's art museum exhibits dozens of works from Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, and many others.
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 Nasher Museum’s ‘Everything Now All At Once’ Celebrates Diversity, Resilience, and Joy appeared first on Colossal.
New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum. “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…”
The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago. “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.”
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red.
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Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community…they are completely revolutionary.” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what they see and have them tell you.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
After posting the previous item referencing dickpanels, a term I’ve been using since 2022, it occurred to me that they could also be called dickovers (like popovers, but dickheaded). The latter sounds more clever, but I worry it’s less clear. I’m seldom so indecisive, so I’m running a Mastodon poll.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2
- Tool availability can now be attached to a
required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the newdatasette-agent-backgroundpermission. #10
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
