"We’ve gathered stories from all across the country detailing what happens when Big Tech’s latest monstrosities come to town."
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
"We’ve gathered stories from all across the country detailing what happens when Big Tech’s latest monstrosities come to town."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Guertin summons moments of peace and reflection through felting, crochet, and embroidery.
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This is one of those videos that you start watching and then can’t really stop until you’ve finished. Cow Trip tells the story of an effort to save a baby cow by driving it (and another baby cow rescue) in a not-huge SUV 600 miles from Vermont to a sanctuary in Maryland.
A calf in Vermont hits the lottery when a farmer decides to save him. But someone has to drive the baby cow 600 miles to his new home. A freshly retired doctor and his filmmaker daughter volunteer for the job, but nothing goes as planned. What emerges is an unlikely story of a community of people who will do anything to give one calf a real home.
I think maybe this needs to be a children’s book?
Tags: video
Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions. “What’s different about the XP is that they’ve actually borrowed some of the same technology used by SpaceX, incorporating it as well as a whole slew of other safety features that are basically non-existent.”
How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI. “Here are some of the proven tactics that have helped shift the balance of power in prior tech reckonings…”
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"Ananya Rao was not driving when she was badly injured and a friend from Lakeside High was killed. But her parents might go to prison."
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Jesse Genet’s time was scarce. So she hired Claire, Sylvie, Clark, Dan, and Chloe."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The sublime enigmas of nature form the basis of the physicist-photographer's explorations of landscape and light.
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Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who still needs to hear this in June 2026 but: the US is in the middle of a “rolling coup” by ultra-conservatives who are “well along the path of destroying our democracy”.
Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs and trucks have resulted in more pedestrian deaths in the US over the past two decades.
Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness
I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent SQLite files stored on the user's computer.
That's what OFPS (Origin Private File System) is for, so I had Claude Code for web build me this playground UI to try it out in different browsers.
Tags: browsers, pyodide, datasette-lite
Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times. “The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.”
Poorly Drawn Lines
• Reza
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
"There is only connection in life," the artist says, "and my work is just looking at those connections, so that we can create a shared experience."
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.
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