Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live. Among the buildings are a school in Mass., a hospital in Rwanda, a prison in Norway, and a lighthouse in Maine. Intriguing!
India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury...
India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury Breaches 48 Degrees Celsius Mark. “After 10am, Banda becomes deserted. At first, you see one or two people outside. Then, as the day rises, there is only silence.” (48C = 118F)
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
Are We There Yet?
"A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Four Dozen Artists Celebrate Marine Wildlife and Lore in ‘Common Waters’
Arch Enemy Arts joins forces with PangeaSeed for a group show and fundraiser to help conserve our oceans.
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Longreads
• Peter Rubin
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
Strangers Rent My Home, Sleep in My Bed, Play My Guitar
"Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?"
Xi greets Putin in Beijing - days after Trump's China visit
China's leader Xi Jinping hosts a colourful welcome for visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The two leaders have met dozens of times. Mr Putin arrived in China shortly after President Trump ended his trip to the Chinese capital. Also in this podcast: Donald...
New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...
New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted, “a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience”.
Cookie Queens
Cookie Queens is a feature-length documentary film that follows four Girl Scouts as they navigate the big business & big feelings of Girl Scout Cookie season.
“Cookie Queens” is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and pain points woven into one of America...
llm-gemini 0.32
Release: llm-gemini 0.32
- New model
gemini-3.5-flashfor Gemini 3.5 Flash.
See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican I drew using this upgrade to the plugin.
datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4
Release: datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4
- Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs datasette-llm#7
llm-gemini 0.32a0
Release: llm-gemini 0.32a0
- Compatible with
llm>=0.32a0alpha - adds the ability to stream reasoning tokens.
datasette-llm 0.1a8
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a8
- Fix for bug where
llm_prompt_context()hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7
Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...
Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make It Sports social accounts. “When he sees a sports photograph, he can recall, off the top of his head, a pose, or a style, or even just a figure or a form, from a painting or a sculpture.”
Geddy Lee on the hardest Rush song to play #bass #geddylee #rush #shorts
Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key products:
3.5 Flash is available today to billions of people globally:
For...
The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...
The Banality of the Video Podcast. “The sets, installed with plentiful mics awaiting speech, are authoritative and yet unintimidating, like a friend’s renovated suburban basement.”
There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.:
The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I.
The author, Steven...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Gaia Sleeps Amid Sarah Eberle’s Award-Winning Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
A team of artists and artisans created the figure from a fallen tree, willow branches, and stone.
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Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers” ....
Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers”. I’m sorry, what?!