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Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like...

Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.”

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Why Earth Sucks Compared to the Planet Hestia

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Ava Roth Collaborates with Insects to Create ‘Kintsu-Bee’ Ceramic Vessels

Ava Roth Collaborates with Insects to Create ‘Kintsu-Bee’ Ceramic VesselsAs bees build their hive, ceramics are mended in the spirit of a time-honored Japanese craft tradition.

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The Truth About the "Whoop Killer"

Fitbit Air: The Truth About the "Whoop Killer"

Is the Fitbit Air the true Whoop 5.0 killer?

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Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota

"I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for Pine Island, which has, like many rural Midwestern towns, become an unlikely microcosm of the AI debate."

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Vibrant Miniature Dioramas Burst from Vintage Compacts by Shannon Taylor

Vibrant Miniature Dioramas Burst from Vintage Compacts by Shannon TaylorNature and magic come alive in tiny watercolor scenes.

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Getting Unstuck with Ramona Ausubel

On finding joy in the writing process, embracing friction, and developing your voice.

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The Last Wild Apple Groves (Classic)

The variety of apples we enjoy today have a common ancestor that lies in the forests of Kazakhstan, where scientists are studying the wildest version of the fruit. 


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I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.

— Corey Quinn, on Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Magnifica Humanitas

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‘Animal House’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan go on double-secret probation after rewatching the 1978 classic ‘Animal House’ starring John Belushi, Tim Matheson, and John Vernon.

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Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's some of the clearest writing I've seen on the ethics of integrating AI int...

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Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.

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Awarding Jay Haynes His Being Right Points for Predicting Apple Hitting $3 Trillion in Market Cap

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Here’s a fun one. Back in 2014 I linked to a post by Jay Haynes in which he projected that with a very reasonable level of annual growth, Apple ought to reach a $3 trillion market cap within 10 years. At the time of his writing, Apple’s market cap was “just” $450 billion, an...

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Ferrari's Electric Car Looks Like...

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Thieves Are Texting Threats to Victims of iPhone Theft in London

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Lizzie Dearden and Amelia Nierenberg, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The crime Alex Pikula reported to the police was one they had heard before: An e-bike rider had zoomed past as Mr. Pikula left a theater in London’s West End, ripping his phone from his h...

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Trump Mobile Website Exposed the Number of Pre-Orders — Both Completed and Abandoned — and the Associated Customer Information

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Catie McLeod, The Guardian: Trump Mobile said in a statement that it was investigating the issue — “with the assistance of independent cybersecurity professionals” — in which the full names, addresses and phone numbers of people who filled out preorder forms appeared to ...

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Geddy Lee talks about recording “Tom Sawyer” #rush #geddylee #shorts

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Is Yoko Ono the Most Radical Artist of the Trump Era?

"In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, 'Cut Piece' and other decades-old works of feminist art feel more relevant than ever."

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The History of ‘OK’

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Merriam-Webster: The 1820s and 1830s shared another linguistic fad with today: an appreciation for deliberate misspellings. (Kewl, rite?) This trend, which had humorists adopting now-cringey bumpkin personas with ignorance manifested in uneducated spellings, turned no go...