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• Jackie Andres
Makó's images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination.
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Claude Code was made available to the general public in May 2025. Today, Claude Code’s run-rate revenue has grown to over $2.5 billion; this figure has more than doubled since the beginning of 2026. The number of weekly active Claude Code users has also doubled since January 1.
— Anthropic, announcing their $30 billion series G
Tags: coding-agents, anthropic, claude-code, ai-agents, generative-ai, ai, llms
“‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything being said is factually correct.”
“Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence.”
It drew me a really good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle! I think this is the best one I've seen so far - here's my previous collection.
Via Hacker News
Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, llm-reasoning, llm-release
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30 anniversary of Infinite Jest. “If you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of the writing, you will discover soft, exquisite humanity as its perennial landing.”
In my post about my Showboat project I used the term "overseer" to refer to the person who manages a coding agent. It turns out that's a term tied to slavery and plantation management. So that's gross! I've edited that post to use "supervisor" instead, and I'll be using that going forward.
Tags: language
“Any serious push to account for the actions of this government — to abolish the president’s private army, restructure immigration enforcement and punish anyone responsible for wrongdoing — must include recompense and repair for its victims.”
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• Kate Mothes
"What does it mean to care for, drape, dress, and accommodate change and instability?"
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