Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The French artist's textile-focused practice taps into history and femininity with precision and reverence.
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 Jeanne Vicerial’s Ethereal Sculptures Dot Historic Spaces in Aix-en-Provence in ‘Incarnation’ appeared first on Colossal.
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
"A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park."
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
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.”
“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
"Why should we go on making things?"
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
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.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
sixcolors.com/post/2026/06/road-to-wwdc-2026-whats-a-developer/
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
"If you build it, they will come."
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”.
