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"A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas."

Arch Enemy Arts joins forces with PangeaSeed for a group show and fundraiser to help conserve our oceans.

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 Four Dozen Artists Celebrate Marine Wildlife and Lore in ‘Common Waters’ appeared first on Colossal.

“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”

"Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?"

Candy scholar Susan Benjamin brings us to her research-based historic candy shop, and introduces us to some surprising sweets that have shaped American history … from abolitionist sugars to WWI's chocolate energy bars. 

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New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted, “a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience”.

Cookie Queens is a feature-length documentary film that follows four Girl Scouts as they navigate the big business & big feelings of Girl Scout Cookie season. “Cookie Queens” is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and pain points woven into one of America...

Release: llm-gemini 0.32

• New model gemini-3.5-flash for Gemini 3.5 Flash.

See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican I drew using this upgrade to the plugin.

Tags: gemini, llm

Release: datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4

• Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs datasette-llm#7

Tags: llm, datasette

Release: llm-gemini 0.32a0

• Compatible with llm>=0.32a0 alpha - adds the ability to stream reasoning tokens.

Tags: gemini, llm

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a8

• Fix for bug where llm_prompt_context() hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7

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.

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 Gaia Sleeps Amid Sarah Eberle’s Award-Winning Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show appeared first on Colossal.

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.

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 From Two Tons of Celadon, Jean Shin Sculpts a Metaphor for the Korean Diaspora appeared first on Colossal.

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.