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Hey gang. I took a couple of days off at the beginning of the week to visit some colleges with my daughter. She found a potential contender, one that was just fine, and a school that isn’t going to work for her — we both independently zoned out listening to the presentation ...

"The head is more than the center of the brain and thought; it is the place where the soul lives and must be protected," the artist says.

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 Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes’ Sculptures appeared first on Colossal.

Everyone’s living a life you know nothing about. Be kind.

“We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.”

A recommendation for a recent episode of the Heavyweight podcast on the Trump regime’s occupation of Minneapolis.

The Marías is a band from Los Angeles, made up of María Zardoya, Josh Conway, Jesse Perlman, and Edward James. They released their first EPs in 2017 and 2018, and their first album in 2021. But then, as you’ll hear, there was a period of a lot of uncertainty around the band’...

Notes on the Martian housing crisis

Centralia, Pennsylvania has attained a sort of cult favorite status, often discussed as a place you cannot and should not visit. But in this episode, writer and friend of the show Colin Dickey has a different take on this ghost town. He says Centralia is thriving and has a new lush chapter – despite "burning" for the past 45 years.

Read Colin's latest piece about Centralia on Atlas Obscura HERE. 

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Panels of thick, gestural brushstrokes animate a story of loss, grief, and remembrance.

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 Painted by Hand, a Stop-Motion Film Eulogizes a Lost Childhood Home appeared first on Colossal.

Boafo is known for his stylized portraiture of Black people, whose skin the artist renders in swirling gestures made with his fingers.

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 Amoako Boafo Weaves His Portraiture into an Architectural Replica of His Accra Studio appeared first on Colossal.

A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests - we need artifacts that show their progress and help us see exactly what the agent-produced software...

Jane August has set a goal to visit every single one of NYC’s roughly 200 museums. She’s chronicling her journey on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram at @JaneAugust. 

We want to hear from you! What is your favorite, underrated museum in your area? Tell us about it, and why you love it. Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message, or send an email to hello@atlasobscura.com.

Plus, check out Atlas Obscura’s own list of unusual museums in NYC: https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/new-york/museums   

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If Bill, Zach, and Craig aren’t back in 5 minutes… just wait longer. The guys head down to Miami to investigate Jim Carrey’s breakout film ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ also starring Courtney Cox, Sean Young, and Tone Loc.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.

WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.

Simplify integrations with WorkOS Pipes.

Link: workos.com/docs/pipes?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium…

Structured Context Engineering for File-Native Agentic Systems New paper by Damon McMillan exploring challenging LLM context tasks involving large SQL schemas (up to 10,000 tables) across different models and file formats: Using SQL generation as a proxy for programmatic ag...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a "U.S.-based technology company". This captures an effec...