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25 Books That Capture This American Moment. They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike.

Tool: QR code generator

Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks.

Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.”

On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”.

In this interview, I sit down with legendary audio engineer and producer Eddie Kramer at Toronto’s legendary Revolution Recording Studios. We discuss his ridiculously impressive discography, crafting the iconic psychedelic rock sounds of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling...

Everyone's talking about the Fitbit Air

This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here. The chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769): Priestley is best known for his co-discovery of oxygen. Tags: infoviz · Joseph Priestley · maps · timelines

Donald Trump has left China after talks with Xi Jinping that the US president says have settled "a lot of different problems". President Xi called it a "landmark" visit, but gave no details of any new agreements. On Iran, President Trump said the Chinese president would pre...

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.”

For most of human history, people went about their daily lives with a worm or two (or fifty) in their guts. Only in the past century, with pharmaceuticals and sanitation practices, have we made significant strides towards deworming the whole of humanity. And that’s typically...

Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red.

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 Blood-Red Landscapes by Andrew McIntosh Conjure the Terrifying Unknown appeared first on Colossal.

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.”

"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."

"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."

Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.

The head of the CIA has visited Cuba as the island struggles with a severe energy crisis - made worse by a US fuel blockade. John Ratcliffe reportedly said Washington was prepared to engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba made fundamental changes. Also: ten...