The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
We visit southern Benin to hear the story of the Temple of Pythons and clear up some misconceptions about one of the world's most misunderstood spiritual systems.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
After posting the previous item referencing dickpanels, a term I’ve been using since 2022, it occurred to me that they could also be called dickovers (like popovers, but dickheaded). The latter sounds more clever, but I worry it’s less clear. I’m seldom so indecisive, so I’m running a Mastodon poll.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2
- Tool availability can now be attached to a
required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the newdatasette-agent-backgroundpermission. #10
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting!
— Mitchell Hashimoto, on Bun porting from Zig to Rust
Tags: zig, ai, mitchell-hashimoto, llms, rust, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, bun
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
“Human rhythm is what gives the material its character," says the artist.
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 Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana Leaf Lamps Swell Between Material and Movement appeared first on Colossal.
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a1
- Now uses the
execute-sqlpermission when deciding which tables to list to the user. #8
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
geoffreyfowler.substack.com/p/what-is-ai-doing-to-our-kids-im-going
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Owen Scott, reporting for The Independent:
The list of tech and financial industry titans joining the commander-in-chief during his summit with China’s president Xi Jinping includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. [...]
Trump earlier confirmed a number of high-profile attendees in a lengthy post on Truth Social, albeit referring to Cook as “Tim Apple” in the process.
While he’s in such a jocular nickname-y mood, he should drop a reference to Winnie the Pooh into some of these posts on his blog.
Link: the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the midst of the most famous match cut in the history of cinema (in Kubrick’s 2001, when the ape-thrown bone turns into a spacecraft). I don’t know whether to laugh or cry (rn, it’s both).
