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This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here. The chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769): Priestley is best known for his co-discovery of oxygen. Tags: infoviz · Joseph Priestley · maps · timelines

Duke University's art museum exhibits dozens of works from Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, and many others.

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 Nasher Museum’s ‘Everything Now All At Once’ Celebrates Diversity, Resilience, and Joy appeared first on Colossal.

New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum. “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…”

The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago. “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.”

For most of human history, people went about their daily lives with a worm or two (or fifty) in their guts. Only in the past century, with pharmaceuticals and sanitation practices, have we made significant strides towards deworming the whole of humanity. And that’s typically...

Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red.

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Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community…they are completely revolutionary.” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what they see and have them tell you.”

"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."

"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."

Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.

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. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-temple-of-pythons-ouidah-benin

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Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, stumbled over his words. He at one point c...

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.

Link: mastodon.social/@gruber/116575825801893849

Una Hajdari, reporting for Euronews: A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally [sic] presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday, with former European Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestage...

Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2

• Tool availability can now be attached to a required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the new datasette-agent-background permission. #10

Tags: datasette, datasette-agent

Calif, a security research team, on their blog: Many security experts consider Apple devices to be the most secure consumer platform. The latest flagship example is MIE (Memory Integrity Enforcement), Apple’s hardware-assisted memory safety system built around ARM’s MTE ...

This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technology company with a pair of legacy/legendary iPhone and Android apps. They t...

[...] 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