Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Arghavan Khosravi grapples with the structures and ideological strictures that shape our lives.
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 Arghavan Khosravi Breaks Through Gendered Restrictions in Her Architectural Portraits appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
25 Books That Capture This American Moment. They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike.
Tool: QR code generator
Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks.
Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.”
On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”.
Everyone's talking about the Fitbit Air
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
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.”
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red.
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 Blood-Red Landscapes by Andrew McIntosh Conjure the Terrifying Unknown appeared first on Colossal.
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.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
