Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from your keyboard experience. “Break all the rules. You’re designing for the audience of one.”
The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic (Updated Version)
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Tugboat Printshop Marks 20 Years of Making Meticulously Crafted Woodblock Prints
When Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Printshop sets out to make a woodblock print, it's rare that she only uses a single block.
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise. The Pudding analyzed 200,000 similes from popular fiction. “The clichés are obvious, marked by a single tall spike that overshadows the others.”
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse
"As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?"
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“Aren’t the Organs a Silver Lining?”

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Elon Musk loses court battle against OpenAI
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
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‘Borat’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Comedy month continues as Bill Simmons is joined by Kyle Brandt, who is no. 4 rewatcher in all of Kazakhstan, to revisit Sacha Baron Cohen in ‘Borat.' Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://ziprecruiter.com/REWATCHABLES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Stanley Jordan talks his guitar philosophy #guitarist #guitar #shorts
“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.]
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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."
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