Colossal
• Kate Mothes
'New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations' celebrates contemporary creations by artists in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon.
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 Innovation Meets Heritage in West African Contemporary Artists’ Masquerade Ensembles appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/
The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan? Ok, I’m in.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
theverge.com/tech/972209/ebay-cyberstalking-harassment-settlement
Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact. “The impact would have produced an immense cloud of dust that superheated the upper atmosphere, charbroiling living organisms unable to take shelter and igniting widespread wildfires.”
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? “Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns…”
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Why we love them, and why I build them."
We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed anyone on the internet to use their sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s platform or isolation were not compromised in anyway.
— Akshat Bubna, Modal's CTO, talking to Reuters about this incident
Tags: ai-security-research, openai, sandboxing, security, openai-hugging-face-incident
On the experience of the long haul flight. “The meal cart appears two hours in. You can hear it banging into passengers’ knees before you see it, and the sound causes the entire cabin to sit up slightly, like meerkats detecting motion on the savanna.”
“The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been announced…” Among the authors nominated are Marlon James, M. John Harrison, Emma Cline, and Elizabeth Strout.
Please Use AI. “Be sure to use AI when planning that next camping trip, the last one you will take with this particular child. Definitely do not text your friend who has fly-fished every river in Pennsylvania and biked every backwoods trail…”
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
The artist's new exhibition is fully stocked with more than 20,000 handmade felt objects.
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 Lucy Sparrow Invokes ’90s Supermarket Nostalgia in ‘The Beginning of Convenience’ appeared first on Colossal.
