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• Molly White
With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress
Do you know your Gaia from your Cronus from your Zeus? In fewer than 15 minutes, this video provides a comprehensive overview of all the important Greek & Roman gods, goddesses, nymphs, heroes, monsters, demigods, and other assorted spiritual beings, who begat who, and what all of their domains were. (via open culture)
The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color.
Some of the best drone shots from the 2026 Winter Olympics.
‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows. “These identities aren’t genetic or ethnic, they’re social. To have backup for that from DNA is powerful.”
An app called NonUSA is surging in popularity in Denmark; it “helps you identify and avoid American products in everyday life”. (Ironically, iOS-only for now…)
The Trump regime is still deporting people to wherever they want, facilitated by a corrupt Supreme Court.
“I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself.”
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
ranchero.com/2026/02/19/stress-free-rss-reader-feedcity.html
OMG. Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame) linked to FeedCity and had nice things to say about it:
This one is not just no-unread-counts but also social, with outbound RSS. Very cool!
Thank you very much, Brent! 🥹
Yesterday was another Homebrew Website Club.
Nina showed us her newly created Instagram-Archive site using Memento Mori. She also detailed how cumbersome it is to delete one’s Instagram account. We then talked about Dark Patterns for a while.
AI has also always been a topic again. How it can for example be useful to get away from big tech and host services yourself. Jochen told us about how he does just that now. What he previously didn’t have the time for now became possible. He also uses AI to add new feature to the website of his Python Podcast.
We also talked a bit about podcasting and available apps as well as how one might get away from large music streaming services like Spotify. And we made our first money transfer using Wero (instead of Paypal).
The next HWC DUS will be on Mar. 17th.
Long running agentic products like Claude Code are made feasible by prompt caching which allows us to reuse computation from previous roundtrips and significantly decrease latency and cost. [...]
At Claude Code, we build our entire harness around prompt caching. A high prompt cache hit rate decreases costs and helps us create more generous rate limits for our subscription plans, so we run alerts on our prompt cache hit rate and declare SEVs if they're too low.
Tags: prompt-engineering, anthropic, claude-code, ai-agents, generative-ai, ai, llms
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Old Cahawba Archeological Park is perhaps one of Alabama's most famous ghost towns. But it once was the center of life in this southern state. We unravel the surprising tale of this onetime capital city.
SEE IT IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/old-cahawba-archeological-park
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The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family. “‘Look at the Pelicot family.’ They had been ‘confronted with the impossible dilemma,’ he said. ‘How to make suffering coexist.’”
