“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident.”
Next year, “the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will...
Next year, “the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium” because of “the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits in the ACA markets”.
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
More Perfect: The Hate Debate
Back in 2017 our colleagues at More Perfect gathered a room full of people together to debate a straight forward question: Can free speech go too far? Today, eight years have passed and plenty has changed, but this question feels alive as ever.
And so we’re re-airing M...
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Ol Pejeta Rhino Cemetery (Classic)
A small cemetery in the grasslands of Kenya serves as a way to honor one of the most endangered animals in the world – the rhino – and elevate the plight of a species on the brink.
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Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’
The above links to an Instagram reel with Colbert breaking the news at the start of his show airing tonight. Here’s the same clip on X, if you prefer. He, apparently, was as surprised as anyone.
Here’s Jed Rosenzweig’s story at (the excellent) LateNighter:
“The Late Sho...
Contemplative Landscapes by Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina is uploading videos of the “long photograph” variety of peaceful & contemplative nature scenes to YouTube. 4K. No AI. “Press play and walk away.”
Tags: Noah Kalina · video
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist...
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.” (Honestly, same.)
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of...
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of 5000 images from the NASA Ames Research Center. “Browsing through this amazing archive gives you a unique view of decades’ worth of breakthrough research.”
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association...
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association with aimless, unfocused listening — vibe music before vibe became a buzzword — means people aren’t paying as much attention to what’s real and what’s not…”
648: Part of the Movement
Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' ...
The Surreality of Japanese Playgrounds at Night
For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at night, lit up in captivating ways.
(via laura olin and present & correct)
Tags: Fujio Kito · Japan · photography
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Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone
This morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts.
This weekend is Open Sauce 2025, the third edition of the Bay Area confe...
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural...
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural pathways each time I shrug off Trump’s clear violations of the Constitution and his total contempt for our system of checks and balances.”
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days,...
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days, he loves to sleep in, then to make long phone calls to his fellow pigeon fanciers while cleaning the kitchen…” Sounds like a dream!
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first...
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first part of a new work-in-progress called Making Software that aims to explain how software systems & tools work from the ground up.
The Design Museum’s Upcoming Wes Anderson Exhibition
I don’t think anything could be more up my alley, in my wheelhouse, in my lane, my cup of tea, my speed than this upcoming retrospective of Wes Anderson’s work at London’s Design Museum.
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderso...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding,...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding, consumer tech, and more.
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who...
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of doubts about gender or transition”.
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about...
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about Joel Embiid by media osmosis, but for some reason I spent 45 minutes this morning reading this profile of him.
Quoting Terence Eden
The modern workforce shouldn't be flinging copies to each other. A copy is outdated the moment it is downloaded. A copy has no protection against illicit reading. A copy can never be revoked.
Data shouldn't live in a file on a laptop. It shouldn't be a single file on a network share. Data is a living beast. Data needs to live in a database - not an Excel file. Access should be granted for each according to their needs.
— Terence Eden, We've got to stop sending files to each other
Tags: terence-eden, files