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This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World

Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels through the Sahara Desert. One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to th...

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Geminiception

Yesterday Anthropic got a bunch of buzz out of their new window.claude.complete() API which allows Claude Artifacts to run their own API calls. It turns out Gemini had beaten them to that feature by over a month, but the announcement was tucked away in a bullet point of thei...

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The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is...

The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is now mostly just re-running strips from its archive, updated for modern times.

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Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts....

Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts.

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Four Rooms at the Omni Parker House Hotel

In an homage to the 1995 movie Four Rooms, Dylan talks with historian Susan Wilson about how the history of Boston – and the United States at large – was influenced by events that occurred in four different rooms of the iconic Omni Parker House Hotel.   
 

This episode was recorded live at the WBUR Festival in Boston on May 31, 2025. 


Check out Susan Wilson’s books and her other work on her website.


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New sandboxes from Cloudflare and Vercel

Two interesting new products for running code in a sandbox today. Cloudflare launched their Containers product in open beta, and added a new Sandbox library for Cloudflare Workers that can run commands in a "secure, container-based environment": import { getSandbox } from "@...

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Denis Villeneuve to Direct Next James Bond Film

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Good pick. I feel great about this.

Link: deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm…

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Build and share AI-powered apps with Claude

Build and share AI-powered apps with Claude Anthropic have added one of the most important missing features to Claude Artifacts: apps built as artifacts now have the ability to run their own prompts against Claude via a new API. Claude Artifacts are web apps that run in a st...

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Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network....

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network. “The new film isn’t a ‘January 6’ movie and will focus not just on the 2020 election but also Facebook’s effect on teens, preteens, violence and countries outside the U.S.”

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What Was Jim Crow?

This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverberate in American society and politics today. If you are an American watching this, and you had a standard social studies or history class in h...

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Quoting Christoph Niemann

Creating art is a nonlinear process. I start with a rough goal. But then I head into dead ends and get lost or stuck.

The secret to my process is to be on high alert in this deep jungle for unexpected twists and turns, because this is where a new idea is born.

I can't make art when I'm excluded from the most crucial moments.

— Christoph Niemann, An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art

Tags: art, ai, generative-ai

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A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots...

A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots of screenshotted examples.

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Weather Balloons

Once you add the balloons into the model, it makes forecasting easier overall--the forecast is always 'cold and dark, with minimal solar-driven convection.'

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Lake Tahoe Boat Tragedy Claims Longtime Apple Employee Paula Bozinovich

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Some sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle (News+ link): The eight people killed in a sudden storm while boating on Lake Tahoe over the weekend were a close-knit group of friends and family members who had gathered for a birthday celebration, according to a spokesperson ...

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How Christoph Niemann Uses AI in His Work

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingly) in his work: Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art. Creating art is a nonlinear process. I start with a rough goal. B...

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Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI First there was Claude Code in February, then OpenAI Codex (CLI) in April, and now Gemini CLI in June. All three of the largest AI labs now have their own version of what I am calling a "terminal agent" - a CLI tool that can read and write files and execute comman...

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In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to...

In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to Weather the Storm. “You have opportunity after opportunity to create something lovely for yourself or others.”

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The Joy and Pain of Learning New Things as an Older Human

From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning (Amazon), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to surf at the age of 35. Yet I didn’t quit. I returned to the dog beach twice more the week of my first solo session, and four m...

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A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly...

A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old but not always.” See My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.

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Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization...

Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization that I can’t experience anything anymore without thinking about how I’ll document it.” 🎯🎯🎯

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