“I have travelled all over the world in the last 30...
“I have travelled all over the world in the last 30 years, and have never seen anything like the density of assholes I just encountered in Japan, [i.e.] tourists being an unbearable menace specifically while on and around their phones.”
Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting
There’s something so relaxing about watching art conservator Julian Baumgartner restore this damaged painting, a self-portrait by Italian painter Emma Gaggiotti Richards. I love how he paints tiny cracks in the damaged areas to match those in the rest of the painting.
There are many more videos and photos of Baumgartner’s restoration process on Instagram and YouTube. (via the kid should see this)
[This is a vintage post originally from Aug 2018.]
Tags: art · Julian Baumgartner · meditative · timeless posts · video
Particle Census
Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...
Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the making that you can play on the web, Game Boy, ZX Spectrum Next, and Palm Pilot.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Zendaya Taps into the Creative Process in a Quirky Ad Directed by Spike Jonze
The actor engages in a bit of trial and error in a "dream lab" where anything is possible.
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Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game,...
Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game, Subnautica 2. Prunty did the FTL: Faster Than Light soundtrack back in the day, which I love.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Roadside Attraction
"The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s Claim Against Sam Altman in Unanimous Verdict
Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit
against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the
three-year statute of limitations.
Mr. Musk filed his suit against t...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘John Appleseed’
Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik:
When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market
capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it
sits near $4 trillion. That is more than a 1,000 percent inc...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Define ‘Boom’ Please
While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link):
Even though it has largely missed out on the...
Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...
Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for their own good. “Each morning at 10am, I get an email from Caroline in the finance team showing the cash we have in the bank compared with the same day last year. This fact offers no hiding place.”
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, US
I'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one! Didn't get a great photo of that, but I did see some goslings down by the swan boat lake.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Ted Turner’s Small Apartment Above the Former CNN Center
Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life. (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future
A follow-up point on my “AI Is Technology, Not a Product” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”:
By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that people will swipe on
thei...
Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...
Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up kids. “When your kid leaves it is the happiest day of your life and also the saddest day of your life. And a lot of other feelings in between.” In the midst of this right now; it’s been a lot.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘AI, “Humanity”, and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome’
Jim Prosser, back in February:
Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only
works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t
kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking
over the public meant the industry had built ...
What we know about latest Ebola outbreak
There have been more than 390 suspected cases and more than 80 reported deaths from the new species of Ebola, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The infection has already spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring Uganda, wh...
What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
I am not what you would call a dedicated home cook. But every once in a while, I get a bee in my bonnet and make something from my small cache of recipes or from something I saw online that looked good. Some of my go-tos include:
Rigatoni With White Bolognese (PDF)
Orecch...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center ‘UBI’ Payments
Wikipedia:
The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established
permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned
corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was
established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9, Section 15 of the
...