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I’m totally charmed by these snaps of some of the best sumo wrestlers in the world touring London. The athletes were in London for a 5-day event at the Royal Albert Hall. London’s Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japa...

Jess Weatherbed, The Verge: A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for around four hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. As of 6:35AM ET, the AWS s...

Picking up steam, these protests are.

Link: theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/10/photos-no-kings…

Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy and weird about the technology! It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on.”

How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures by Indonesian artist Irene Saputra, aka Nengiren. She explained to Colossal what the figures signify: Nona Kecil’s evolution mirrors my own journey as an artist. Initially, she adorned simple OOTDs with muted colors and straightforward patterns. However, the turning point occurred three years ago when I embraced motherhood. Balancing time between my son and art intensified my experimentation, leading Nona Kecil to explore more expressive and elaborate outfits. (via @antichrista) Tags: art · embroidery · Nengiren 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient, a style of music that arose in post-revolution Czechoslovakia, influenced by new age, ambient, and minimalism music newly imported from the west.

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Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next 5 years. This is interesting: “Select races and all practice sessions will also be available for free in the Apple TV app.”

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This archaeological dig in Phonsovan, Laos is one of the most important and dangerous prehistoric sites in Southeast Asia. 

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Photos of the No Kings protests & rallies that happened in big cities and small towns all across America this weekend.

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This is incredible: artist Kara Walker took a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia until 2021, chopped it up, and reconstituted it into a disfigured beast. It’s part of an exhibition of several such works called Monu...

Consumer Reports: Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead. “More than two-thirds of [tested products] contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day.”

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More than 170 *US citizens* have been detained and held (and “dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot”) by immigration agents this year. “Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.”

TIL: Exploring OpenAI's deep research API model o4-mini-deep-research

I landed a PR by Manuel Solorzano adding pricing information to llm-prices.com for OpenAI's o4-mini-deep-research and o3-deep-research models, which they released in June and document here.

I realized I'd never tried these before, so I put o4-mini-deep-research through its paces researching locations of surviving orchestrions for me (I really like orchestrions).

The API cost me $1.10 and triggered a small flurry of extra vibe-coded tools, including this new tool for visualizing Responses API traces from deep research models and this mocked up page listing the 19 orchestrions it found (only one of which I have fact-checked myself).

Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, deep-research, vibe-coding

The AI water issue is fake Andy Masley (previously): All U.S. data centers (which mostly support the internet, not AI) used 200--250 million gallons of freshwater daily in 2023. The U.S. consumes approximately 132 billion gallons of freshwater daily. The U.S. circulates a l...

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away Extremely high signal 2 hour 25 minute (!) conversation between Andrej Karpathy and Dwarkesh Patel. It starts with Andrej's claim that "the year of agents" is actually more likely to take a decade. Seeing as I accepted 2025 as the...

One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert. Open Culture’s Colin Marshall writes: Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copie...

John Casey, the owner of one of the last rubber stamp stores in NYC, shows how he makes stamps by hand. This short video is from a few years ago; the shop is still open.

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Using UUIDv7 is generally discouraged for security when the primary key is exposed to end users in external-facing applications or APIs. The main issue is that UUIDv7 incorporates a 48-bit Unix timestamp as its most significant part, meaning the identifier itself leaks the record's creation time.

This leakage is primarily a privacy concern. Attackers can use the timing data as metadata for de-anonymization or account correlation, potentially revealing activity patterns or growth rates within an organization.

— Alexander Fridriksson and Jay Miller, Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

Tags: uuid, postgresql, privacy, security

A few readers took exception to this bit from my post Wednesday regarding the new M5 MacBook Pro: The base 14-inch model, with the no-adjective M-series chip, is for people who probably would be better served with a MacBook Air but who wrongly believe they “need” a lapto...