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Where Animals Gather for A Meal

Producer Jerome Campbell shares two stories about how far animals will go for their meal. 


 


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'Rambo: First Blood Part II' With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

Bill and Kyle are tasked with a secret mission to rewatch Sylvester Stallone in 'Rambo: First Blood Part II,' also featuring Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, and Julia Nickson.

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

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Aerospace Flowchart

Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution.

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The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade

The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade

The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists

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The contagion of fear

The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful mistakes causing unjustified panic...

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What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs. An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions. I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always be looking for improved understanding of the layers unde...

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From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every...

From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every “framed picture” emoji. “A total rejection of nature and reality. Why is the horizon rounded? Has this artist seen planet earth before?”

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More Nothing Now

"We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity."

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Studio Ghibli’s Deepest Secret Is What Comes Next

"The ambiguous future of Japan’s most prestigious group of animators won’t get clearer anytime soon."

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The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers...

The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers on “a more precise definition of kissing”, “An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing”, and the discovery “that milk proteins from cockroaches pack 3X as much energy as milk proteins from cows”.

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Apple’s 27.0 OS Updates

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Armin Briegel at Scripting OS X has compiled links for all the release notes for all of today’s OS updates (features, developer, security). In addition to the 27.0 updates, Apple also released 26.7 updates and MacOS 15.8 Sequoia. Big day.

Link: scriptingosx.com/2026/09/apple-27-platform-updates…

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In ‘Ascent,’ Debra Baxter Explores the Power in Vulnerability, Mysticism, and Time

In ‘Ascent,’ Debra Baxter Explores the Power in Vulnerability, Mysticism, and TimeBaxter uses materials derived from the earth that are explicitly solid, evoking an intimate tension between vulnerability and strength.

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 In ‘Ascent,’ Debra Baxter Explores the Power in Vulnerability, Mysticism, and Time appeared first on Colossal.

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Rocky Sleep, You Watch, Question?

Project Hail Mary is already on my list of movies that I can just throw on in the backround while I do a bit of work or puttering around. (Not sure whether that’s an endorsement or not…I like the movie!) Anyhoo, if you get tired of the movie, you can watch Rocky sleep for 2+ hours with the PHM soundtrack playing in the background.

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There’s No Place Like Group Chats

"My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones."

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This product took 6 years to make

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Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday , a...

Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday, a stationary store run by (former?) graphic designer Sam Potts, who announced the shop back in March in a KDO open thread. Lots of nice touches here, including a used pencil exchanger.

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Heavy Weighs the King “Lie to Me” live in my studio #alternativerock #shorts

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Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26...

Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26 million??! It took 2 hours and 20 minutes and the previous record was 29 million. At level 255, you hit “rebirth” and the pieces slow down to level 0 speeds again. Totally bonkers.

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A Deep Dive Into the Full Bayeux Tapestry Story

From Deep Down History, an entertaining hour-long explainer video on the Bayeux Tapestry.

This video tells the Tapestry’s story in full, using Charles Stothard’s early colour reproduction, presented here as a seamless scroll for the first time. We follow Harold Godwinson’s fateful journey from Edward the Confessor’s court to Normandy, his later seizure of the Crown, and William the Conqueror’s invasion. Beyond its political messaging, the Tapestry is also bursting with medieval history, including jokes, fascinating technical details, and a warning for those who break their promises…

Completed within a decade or two of the events which it depicts, the tapestry is back in the news & public consciousness because it’s back in England for the first time since it was made and on display at the British Museum.

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