Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Annual Performance Review
Going Focaccia Crazy
I have a pizza oven and baked very underwhelming bread twice during the pandemic, but I’ve found it difficult to fall into a proper rabbit hole when it comes to dough-making. Focaccia might do it for me.
My daughter and I had been wanting to experiment with focaccia (and sc...
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Queer Figures Commune with Nature in J Carino’s Dynamic Paintings
Blocks of color and gestural brushstrokes characterize J Carino's paintings, which question what we deem natural and innate.
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Longreads
• Krista Stevens
This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything
"A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species
According to the collaborative marine research initiative, up to 90 percent of ocean life remains a mystery.
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Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Love Language
“The undying dream of Esperanto.“
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Grate Expectations: The Troubled Quest for Tasty Vegan Cheese
“The plant-based boom failed to deliver. But there may yet be hope.”
Quoting Kyle Ferrana
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
— Kyle Ferrana, @KyleTrainEmoji
Tags: ai-misuse, coding-agents, ai, llms
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
How should we think about Starship?
What started as the Mars Colonial Transporter risks becoming a humble space truck
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Beyond the Game: This Atlanta Monument is a Tombstone For…Gravity?
This stone at Emory University is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.
This episode is part of our ongoing coverage of the soccer world championship. In each episode, we take you beyond the stadium, and to a nearby wonder that’s off the beaten track.
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The pressure
The pressure
Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported.
The rate of incoming security reports is 4-5 times higher than it was in 2024 and double the...
What is the “Alex Lifeson Chord”? #guitarist #alexlifeson #shorts
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers
"The industry has grown rapidly, straining state budgets. A focus on finances has led to overbilling, fraud and even harm."
My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon ....
My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon. “As I watched my son play Prodigy, it became clear there wasn’t much learning happening. In about 10 minutes of gameplay, he spent less than 30 seconds answering math questions.”
The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using...
The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using performance-enhancing drugs) featured 42 athletes, three of whom were competing clean. All three won their respective events.
Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical letter yesterday; it’s entitled Magnifica Humanitas Of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It is very long and I haven’t been able to read the whole thing; here’s a tast...
250 to 250. We Are America.
The 250th birthday of the United States is coming up and I know many of us are having a tough time feeling celebratory because *waves hands around at everything*. To mark the occasion in a decidedly non-jingoistic manner, historian Heather Cox Richardson is producing a ser...
Tenderly Tracking My Husband . “Knowing when to...
Tenderly Tracking My Husband. “Knowing when to step in and tell a loved one with [Alzheimer’s] that they can no longer do something because it’s too risky is a game of chance we caregivers hate to play.” Lovely & heartbreaking.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
"An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction."
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Shoutout to Kevin
