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A Georgia teen diagnosed with a rare cancer used his Make-A-Wish gift to help the homeless in his community. “I got out of my version of heck, and I want to help others who are in a similar situation, their own version.”

The intelligence of LLMs is “a function of the social complexity of the civilization whose language it digested”, and their widespread use will lead to a thinning of that complexity, “undermining the conditions for its own advancement”. (And ours.)

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times from the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland (gift link): On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, two notably different tales were offered of how Open...

"A certain image of the tiger mom— strict, cold and demanding—is ubiquitous in popular culture. Why?"

Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X: I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer management, vehicle tracki...

Teaser trailer for season four of Ted Lasso. Looks like he & Coach Beard are back in the UK to coach AFC Richmond’s women’s team. Premieres Aug 5 on Apple TV.

"I woke up one day to the realization that I had written ten good pages of a book that was due in five months."

Landsat, a NASA and USGS program, has documented the surface of Earth from space since 1972.

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"Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement."

"I didn’t think about those nachos even once. I had never experienced anything like it. Is this, I asked my friends, how it feels to be normal?"

Next Saturday: Forkalyst live at Haus Spilles, Düsseldorf!

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Next event: Forkalyst Live on May 2, 2026, 19:00 at Haus Spilles, Düsseldorf.

The townspeople of Manitou Springs, Colorado do something very interesting to celebrate the legacy.of a young woman who loved, lived and died there 130 years ago. 

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Every B2B company hits the same inflection point — enterprise customers show up and they need SSO, directory sync, audit logs, and role-based access before they’ll move forward. Most teams lose months building that infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity already chose WorkOS over building it themselves.

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The former CEO of FTX has essentially no realistic avenues left to avoid his 25-year prison sentence

This story by Kevin Guilfoile about his aging father (who worked for the Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame) and the mystery of what happened to the bat that Roberto Clemente got his 3,000th hit with is one of my favorite things that I’ve read over the past few months. ...

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.

— OpenAI Codex base_instructions, for GPT-5.5

Tags: openai, ai, llms, system-prompts, prompt-engineering, codex-cli, generative-ai, gpt

Five great book critics writing today (and where to find them).

"We Make Years Out of Hours" invites the public to remake structures from 10-centimeter blocks.

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This is interesting: Talkie is a vintage LLM, trained on “historical pre-1931 English text”. “The training data for the base model is entirely out of copyright (the USA copyright cutoff date is currently January 1, 1931).”