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Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny Sculptures

Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny SculpturesSungho Bae's uncanny sculptures aremade of a vibrant, fleshy patchwork that resembles organs, tissue, muscle, and more.

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The Talk Show: ‘Getting the Snack Right’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/08/10/ep-454

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation.

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Netflix Has Peaked

sharptext.net/2026/is-netflix-washed-now/

Andrew Sharp, writing at Sharp Text last month after Netflix’s earnings, asking “Is Netflix Washed Now?”: I offer this observation as a swirl of heightened anxiety surrounds the company, so let me clarify one thing up front: I’m not predicting imminent doom. Netflix cont...

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Anthropic Posts ‘How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content’ Without Explaining How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content

support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

Anthropic support page: Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put those commitments i...

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Todd Rundgren on making records #toddrundgren #musicproducer #shorts

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Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine

Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine"We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say.

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“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality. It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”

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(comic) Work long hours because I do

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16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar

"Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home."

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Moment, Expand

"40 notes on Rob Reiner and Stand By Me."

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I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...

I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context): “The uni-context is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts. There’s just one set of norms you should follow all times, irrespective of context.”

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Meghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’

Meghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’'Queen of the Neighborhood!' will include a suite of new paintings that correspond to the nine circles of Hell in Dante's 'Inferno.'

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“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subject and apparently been working on it for 30 years, the trend ...

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“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...

Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years… For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10.2 billion years of full health gained.”

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Text • Kate Mothes

Radhika Chitalia Late Father’s Passport Transforms into a Memory Capsule

Radhika Chitalia Late Father’s Passport Transforms into a Memory Capsule"What started spontaneously became a way of exploring grief, memory, and the journeys that never happened," the artist says.

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Speaking for the Dead

A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.

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‘The Italian Job’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Bill, Chris, and Van hop in the Mini Cooper and dress up as cable guys to revisit the 2003 heist action film ‘The Italian Job,’ starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, and Jason Statham.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

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The Cave House in Mexico City

Casa Cueva was completed in 1958 by artist Juan O Gorman. But in 1969, he sold the house to artist Helen Escobedo. She set off a controversy, which still sparks passion today, after she demolished parts of the house.

Valentina Di Liscia, a journalist and senior editor at Hyperallergic, was determined to get to the truth of the matter. Read here to read more about Casa Cueva. 


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Introducing Muse Glimmer

Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local...

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[Sponsor] Drata

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