Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
On the joys and tribulations of living through a golden age in microbiology
I built this using OpenAI Codex desktop, which turns out to have the Markdown session transcript export feature I've always wanted. Here's the session that built the blog. See also issue 179.
Tags: ai, datasette, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, codex-cli
Everything we know so far about Android 17, Gemini Intelligence and Googlebooks
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Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Kappos' solo exhibition of new paintings opens on Friday at SHRINE in New York.
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 In ‘Piercing the Veil,’ Marina Kappos Gets to Know the Spectre of Grief appeared first on Colossal.
I Want to Live Like Costco People. “Embracing the Costco lifestyle means accepting the fact that I am, in many ways, becoming my father.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The artist's solo exhibition, 'Flora & Flight,' continues through the end of the month at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia.
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 Birds Flock Amid Vibrant Blooms in Vasilisa Romanenko’s Acrylic Paintings appeared first on Colossal.
Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written, promo emails he’s been getting recently (I have too). “The form is subtler than a one-sized-fits-all promo blast, but it sucks way worse, because it’s fundamentally dishonest.”
Meet the Sad Wives of AI. “Princess Diana famously said there were three people in her marriage. For the sad wives of AI, the third is a chatbot.”
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert. The setlist includes Learn to Fly, My Hero, and Everlong.
Two sequences from Dr. Strangelove done in Lego: Muffley’s call to Kissoff on the hotline in the war room and Dr. Strangelove’s increasingly erratic presentation of his plan to preserve humanity in a mine shaft.
This is really well done. (via bb)
[This is a vintage post originally from Oct 2012.]
Tags: Dr. Strangelove · Lego · movies · stop motion · timeless posts · video
“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase.
If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing.
Tags: ai-agents, ai, agent-definitions
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they’re superstars."
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
Adam Serwer: “Violence serves an authoritarian agenda.”
