Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump regime. “This isn’t a border security policy. It’s cruelty as governance — directed at people this administration has decided don’t deserve dignity.”
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives
"A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park."
Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media
After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."
— Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media, Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Tags: ai-ethics, journalism, ai, google
We Are Manipulating the Weather Every Day
Throughout most of human history, the weather has resisted humanity’s desire to change it.
For thousands of years, we have sacrificed children, sung songs and danced, brewed alchemical concoctions, chanted prayers, fired cannons, and made many other futile efforts in the at...
As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square...
As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square protests intensify. “History cannot only be written by officials. If you don’t have real information, it’s difficult for you to have independent thought.”
Hezbollah rejects Lebanon's ceasefire with Israel
Israel and Lebanon agree to a truce - but Hezbollah, backed by Iran, refuses to stop fighting while villages are under attack. The Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun, says this is the last chance for meaningful peace. Also, Ukraine is accused of killing four people in Russian-o...
“ Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text...
“Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009).”
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Art for Our Sakes
"Why should we go on making things?"
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
From Apocalypse to Renewal, Amy Casey Paints a Surreal World in Distress
Casey's paintings meditate on what it means to be in a world in constant flux.
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 From Apocalypse to Renewal, Amy Casey Paints a Surreal World in Distress appeared first on Colossal.
Your Brain Peaked at Birth
Babies may seem helpless, but their brains are incredible learning machines. They can hear sounds from any language, recognize faces adults can't, and build millions of neural connections every second. 🧠👶
#kurzgesagt
#inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #sci...
USPS Reissues Popular Mister Rogers Stamps
Every so often, the US Postal Service reissues old stamps. This time around, they polled the public about which past stamp they’d like to see reissued and the results were decisive: the people love Mister Rogers.
The Mister Rogers stamp, originally released in 2018, is n...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The AI-Driven Resurgence of Native Mac App Development
sixcolors.com/post/2026/06/road-to-wwdc-2026-whats-a-developer/
Jason Snell at Six Colors, looking ahead to WWDC next week:
These days, I’m getting emails pitching me for an endless stream
of new Mac apps. It’s quite remarkable because there was a
period five or ten years ago when it seemed like all app
development on Apple’s platfor...
Ted Chiang is emphatic: LLMs are nowhere close to being...
Ted Chiang is emphatic: LLMs are nowhere close to being conscious. “We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How Austin’s Sandlot Baseball Scene Became a Magnet for Indie Rockers, Filmmakers, Designers, and Brands
"If you build it, they will come."
Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has...
Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has died at age 56. Friends said she “died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”.
03.06.2026
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
The Rise and Rise of Balloon Racing’s First Family
"Joe Heartsill and his sons, Rhett and Lucas, are international eminences in a very obscure corner of professional sports."
Longreads
• Longreads
The Fugitive Childhood of a Cocaine Smuggler’s Daughters
US House votes to curb Trump's war powers
The US House has passed a resolution directing Donald Trump to withdraw American forces from the Iran war, in a largely symbolic move that nonetheless deals a political blow to the president. Four Republicans backed the Democrats, who accuse Trump of violating the Constituti...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Another Gem From the Annals of Nick Bilton Jackassery
I look forward to pseudoscience like this finally getting some airtime on 60 Minutes. For 58 long years the program has been hopelessly biased toward actual science.
Link: daringfireball.net/linked/2015/03/20/bilton-pseudoscience