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Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make It Sports social accounts. “When he sees a sports photograph, he can recall, off the top of his head, a pose, or a style, or even just a figure or a form, from a painting or a sculpture.”

Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key products: 3.5 Flash is available today to billions of people globally: For...

The Banality of the Video Podcast. “The sets, installed with plentiful mics awaiting speech, are authoritative and yet unintimidating, like a friend’s renovated suburban basement.”

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.: The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I. The author, Steven...

A team of artists and artisans created the figure from a fallen tree, willow branches, and stone.

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Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers”. I’m sorry, what?!

Jean Shin's 'Celadon Landscape' presents large-scale vessels made of the lustrous green-blue material.

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No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan forgiveness. No UBI for average Americans. But reparations, treason forgiveness, and UBI for the Jan 6th insurrectionists & criminals who attacked Congress. Got it, got it, got it.

On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a kids’ movie, Alexandra Petri imagines other dystopian source material for family flicks. “Andy Serkis’s Maus: Talking mice? Great. Talking mice and cats? Even better!”

“Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up soon’ and ‘Sorry, life has been hectic’, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.”

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X (XCancel link):

Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Karpathy is, to say the least, a star in the AI research field. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, was director of AI at Tesla (reporting directly to Elon Musk) from 2017–2022, went back to OpenAI in 2023, and then left again in 2024 to start an AI education company named Eureka Labs. He coined the term “vibe coding” in February last year.

Link: x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312

In this interview, I finally get the chance to sit down with Rush frontman and legendary bassist Geddy Lee. We talk about some of my favorite songs from Rush's prolific catalog, his ever-evolving bass sound and going on tour for the first time in over a decade. Keep watching and you might catch the hilarious moment when Alex Lifeson crashes the interview.

Get tickets to the Fifty Something Tour here: https://www.rush.com/tour/fifty-something/

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The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked contraption that types “I hope this email finds you well” over and over again. Jacquard loom & player piano vibes.

Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from your keyboard experience. “Break all the rules. You’re designing for the audience of one.”

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When Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Printshop sets out to make a woodblock print, it's rare that she only uses a single block.

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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise. The Pudding analyzed 200,000 similes from popular fiction. “The clichés are obvious, marked by a single tall spike that overshadows the others.”

"As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?"