14.06.2026
13.06.2026
Colossal
• .ART
The .ART Award Honors the Story Behind the Artwork
The .ART Award includes a $15,000 Grand Prize, residencies at Château du Fresne in France and Anfitrion in Spain, and more.
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US and Iran agree peace deal
The United States and Iran say they've reached a deal to halt their war, which would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and removal of the US naval blockade. The agreement includes the end of the war in Lebanon. The deal is due to be signed on Friday. Also in this...
Quoting Julia Evans
[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is "me, but 3 years ago" or a good friend.
— Julia Evans, write for 1 person
Tags: writing, julia-evans
‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Joanna Robinson
From Hell Month continues with Bill, Chris, and Joanna revisiting the nanny from hell in the 1992 thriller ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,’ starring Rebecca De Mornay, Annabella Sciorra, and Matt McCoy. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic The Ringer is committed to responsible trading. Please visit https://fanduel.com/predicts to learn more about the resources and helpline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering.
In this essay, we argue that there is enough evide...
Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`
Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`
It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns from which tables were included in the results.
To build that, we w...
The Global Story: The world according to Marco Rubio
As a Florida senator, Marco Rubio seemed to hold an opposing world view to Donald Trump; on Russia-Ukraine, on China, on USAID, and more. He notably called Trump a “con man”, and Trump in turn dubbed him, “little Marco”.
And yet now, as US Secretary of State, Rubio has made...
Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed on Sunday
President Trump says a deal with Iran to end the war is scheduled to be signed on Sunday. His comments echo those of the Pakistani Prime Minister, who's mediating talks between the sides. This has been disputed by an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, who ruled out signing ...
Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide
The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time:
You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compatible with the PyEmscripten platform defined in PEP 783) directly to PyPI a...
luau-wasm 0.1a0
Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0
See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details.
Tags: lua, webassembly, pyodide
Strombo on interviewing Noel Gallagher #oasis #noelgallagher #shorts
The Happy Pod: Surviving six days alone on Everest
We hear from the man who survived for nearly a week on one of the most dangerous parts of Mount Everest with little food, no water and few supplies. Dawa Sherpa became separated from his group after running out of oxygen during bad weather and his family had begun mourning h...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Trump’s Name (Set in the Wrong Font, of Course) Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center
Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:
President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.
Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so. The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of trustees to rename it was illegal.
A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Third-Party Developers
From Apple’s Developer site:
To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as
accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business
Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads
will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds
Anthropic:
The US government, citing national security authorities, has
issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable
5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside
the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
...
Bonus: Can an African team win the World Cup?
Half a century on from Pele's infamous prophecy that an African nation would win the World Cup before the year 2000, could the continent finally deliver its first World Cup in 2026? In a special bonus episode from the More than the Score podcast, the BBC’s Lee James is joine...
Canada and the US join the World Cup action
The two remaining hosts of the men's football World Cup, Canada and the US, have joined Mexico in holding their opening ceremonies. They also played their first matches. Canada drew 1-1 with Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the US beat Paraguay 4-1. Also in this podcast: Elon Musk b...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Well this is nuts:
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, wheth...