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Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, kinetic machine sculptures that move under their own power along the beach. Some of the most recent versions are quick fast and can even tow humans along behind them.

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Cultural historian Kassia St. Clair tells the stories of two highly prized colors that are linked to specific places in the world: an exquisite, extremely expensive blue that crossed the globe and upended the European art world… and a shade of purple that possibly wouldn’t have ever come to exist in a different place and time.   

Learn more about color history in Kassia’s book, The Secret Lives of Color

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Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck open up the Rewatchables mailbag and read some listener emails on everything from worst possible movies to see on a date to The Rewatchables Pantheon Pyramid to the worst actor athletic performances of all time.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, Matt Pevic

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Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qwen 397B locally Here's a fascinating piece of research by Dan Woods, who managed to get a custom version of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B running at 5.5+ tokens/second on a 48GB MacBook Pro M3 Max despite that model taking up 209GB (120G...

Shubham Bose, “The 49MB Web Page”: I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker i...

This is maybe the best baseball catch you’ll ever see. Or the most fun one anyway.

Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years.

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Miuccia Prada is worth $4.8 billion. How good of a person do you expect her to be? “I got to thinking about all this the other day while mulling the curious, oft-repeated fact that Miuccia Prada was, in her 1960s youth, a Communist.”

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This support page is a fascinating footnote regarding the recent changes Apple has made to their U.S. key cap labels.

Link: support.apple.com/en-us/102743

“Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture, according to new research.”

Who do you turn to when you’re Christie’s and you want to commission the finest rostrum the world has ever seen? Who else but Jony Ive and LoveFrom. I mean, I’d love to snark about this, but goddamnit, that’s a lovely piece of furniture.

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=HLXDxx06_EM

A playable CSS-only Super Mario Bros game. Wow.

A generator for VHS slipcovers, cassette tape inserts, CD labels & inserts. You can paste in Spotify URLs, search for movies, etc. Really cool and fun.

David Heaney, writing for UploadVR:

Meta Horizon Worlds is dropping VR support in June, meaning it will only be available as a flatscreen experience for the web and smartphones.

By March 31, Meta says the Horizon Worlds app will be delisted from Quest’s store, and key first-party worlds such as Horizon Central, Events Arena, Kaiju, and Bobber Bay will no longer be accessible in VR. Then, from June 15, the Horizon Worlds app will be removed from Quest headsets, and all worlds will no longer be accessible in VR.

Yours truly, three months ago: “Meta Says Fuck That Metaverse Shit”.

Link: uploadvr.com/meta-horizon-worlds-dropping-vr-support/

Jake Conley, reporting for Yahoo Finance: If the deal closes, Zaslav will receive $517.2 million in equity that would trigger if and when the sale goes through, along with roughly $34.2 million in cash and $44.2 million in benefits tied to the value of health coverage re...

The chess program available on Delta Air Lines’ seatback screens is an ELO monster that can beat almost all opponents on easy mode. This guy used a series of increasingly powerful bots to see just how good the Delta chess bot is. Can it beat a grandmaster-level bot? (via clive thompson)

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Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware PromptArmor report on a prompt injection attack chain in Snowflake's Cortex Agent, now fixed. The attack started when a Cortex user asked the agent to review a GitHub repository that had a prompt injection attack hidde...