Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Amid the ongoing climate crisis, how do artists express concerns about water and the environment?
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 Along the Mississippi River, ‘Water | Craft’ Is a Confluence of Art, Culture, and Ecology appeared first on Colossal.
Tags: neuroscience · science · sleep · video
In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still terrorizing communities, kidnapping people off the streets, and destroying property in Minnesota. “The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance.”
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 754B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the size of GLM-4.7 which was 368B and 717GB (4.5 and 4.6 were around that size too).It's interesting to see Z.ai take a position on what we should call professional software engineers building with LLMs - I've seen "Agentic Engineering" show up in a few other places recently. most notable from Andrej Karpathy and Addy Osmani.
I ran my "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" prompt through GLM-5 via OpenRouter and got back a very good pelican on a disappointing bicycle frame:
Via Hacker News
Tags: definitions, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, llm-release, vibe-coding, openrouter, ai-in-china, glm
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Whether working in the studio or street, James Reka gravitates for vivid abstraction.
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The GOP goal of destroying the post office is coming along: the USPS is now so unreliable that newspaper delivery is delayed across the country. (My mail delivery is currently one bundle every week or two.)
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
"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.
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“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.”
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Notes on the Martian housing crisis
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
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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Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Panels of thick, gestural brushstrokes animate a story of loss, grief, and remembrance.
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