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Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show ....

Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show. Here’s the catch: “Each episode Tommy welcomes mystery guests and interviews them without any preparation or knowledge of who will be joining him until they meet in studio.”

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Eddie Kramer on The Beatles “Baby, You’re A Rich Man” #thebeatles #shorts 

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Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS....

Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS. “Haiku is a work of generative music that builds its own sound from nothing each time you open it, and never plays the same way twice — a record that exists only while it is playing.”

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Wildfires and War Rage in Shawn Huckins’ Theatrical Paintings

Wildfires and War Rage in Shawn Huckins’ Theatrical Paintings'Slow Burn' presents a suite of landscapes, each veiled by curtains.

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Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: “Fuck the Empire!”

Now that Andor has been out for a while, showrunner Tony Gilroy is free to speak his mind on what the show was all about. I mean, it was pretty clear to the audience, but now he can say his piece. Andor won a Peabody Award and at the awards ceremony, Gilroy gave the follow...

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“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van...

“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s seventeenth-century painting in which he spells out his own name with caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best of them.”

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The real reason Simone started Yetch.Studio

Watch the full podcast on the @complexly channel!

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Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is...

Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is delivering hydro-generated electricity into NYC: “1,250 megawatts of clean energy directly into New York City’s power grid”. That’s around 20% of the city’s total electric load, now clean.

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(comic) Honest Purpose

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Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning.

"How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country."

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Ruth Borgenicht Links Thousands of Ceramic Rings in Elaborate Chainmail Sculptures

Ruth Borgenicht Links Thousands of Ceramic Rings in Elaborate Chainmail SculpturesThe New Jersey-based artist's works hang tapestry-like on the wall or unfurl into three-dimensional biomorphic forms.

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The Three Ways to Make a Living

Well, this is kinda depressing, courtesy of Jason Zweig’s father:

There are three ways to make a living:

1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.

2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.

3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.

I aim for #2. But maybe society needs more of #3 and, it goes without saying, a whole lot less of #1. (via df)

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TIL that Muji once sold a car . “The Muji Car 1000...

TIL that Muji once sold a car. “The Muji Car 1000 was a debadged and stripped down 2-door version of the Nissan March, with the smallest engine, an automatic, steel wheels, and A/C, available in one color: white.”

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A drum set from above. A drumming drummer partially seen.
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Librarians on Horseback

"The New Deal project that preserved Kentucky’s recipes."

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Made in the USA

"Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves."

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Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, before anyone could have predicted how popular ...

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datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0

Release: datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0

I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely. This alpha is looking promising so far. GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out of the sandbox!

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micropython-wasm 0.1a1

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a1

Fixes for some limitations that emerged while I was trying to use this to build datasette-agent-micropython.

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micropython-wasm 0.1a0

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a0

My latest sandboxing experiment: This alpha package bundles a lightly customized WASM build of MicroPython with a wrapper to execute code in it via wasmtime.

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