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• Grace Ebert
Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles form the collaborative "Shape of Movement."
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Great piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on how “the portrait of America as an imperial power cuts against its self-image as a righteous cradle of democracy” and what that means for the next Black president.
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• Kate Mothes
The forthcoming show 'The Death of Beauty' at Track 16 investigates intersections of identity, desire, and consumer culture.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake ricocheted off the Earth’s core and shifted the entirety of Japan 6 millimeters to the east, enough to disrupt GPS measurements.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened."
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
"Sally Hayden explores the ways we cope with loss in times of crisis."
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• Kate Mothes
Cole's imaginative sculptures tap into environmentalism, consumerism, and global traditions and histories.
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Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called ‘the weights.’ ‘In the weights’ means that a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search.”
Human brains were not designed to deal with an endless supply of bad news. “We are the same species as we were thousands of years ago. What’s changed is the size of the world it’s asked to scan for threats.”
