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What if Earth could swap its Moon for a better one? From volcanic Io to methane-soaked Titan, the Solar System offers some tempting alternatives. But maybe our Moon is already perfect. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #astronomy #mo...

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"Your body's data was only valuable once."

At the Mapparium® globe in Boston, visitors can step inside a giant, three-story stained glass globe…and get a glimpse of the bigger picture. 

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.

Learn more here about visiting the “Mapparium” globe. 

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If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know Jonathon Ready highlights one of the more eyebrow-raising details from the 319 page system card for Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Here's a longer excerpt, highlights mine: In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate th...

Release: llm 0.32a3

Almost entirely written by the new Claude Fable 5, see my write-up for more details.

Tags: projects, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, claude-mythos

I didn't have early access to today's Claude Fable 5 release, but I've spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is something of a beast. It's slow, expensive and has been quite happily churning through everything I've throw...

Every time I see a link to one of of Car Pal’s BeamNG car simulator videos, I have to stop what I’m doing and watch it. (It’s becoming a problem.) This one was particularly good: Is it possible to reach the speed of light with perpetual speed boosters?

"The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again."

TIL: Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView

I've been really enjoying AgentsView by Wes McKinney as a tool for exploring my token usage across different coding agents running on my laptop.

Claude Fable 5 came out today and wasn't yet included in the pricing database AgentsView uses. I used Fable to reverse-engineer AgentsView and figured out this recipe for setting custom prices.

Here's my Claude Fable 5 usage for today so far, plotted by AgentsView as a treemap across my different local projects:

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, llm-pricing

Rishi Ó:

My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.

Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.

That’s a lot of bullet points.

Link: blog.oneberri.com/posts/wwdc26-the-small-things

Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on YouTube for “thinking and building” called Claude FM. “Made and curated by musicians.”

CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.”

The show of pieces from the Tia Collection opening next week at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 works by 38 artists.

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On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness. “The wellness industry loves rest [because] rest can be sold, because rest promises a return.” But: “[Idleness] does not promise to make you better at anything. It offers no return on investment.”

In this interview, I sit down with Rush's new touring drummer Anika Nilles. We discuss the world tour, how she got started, and the pressure of filling in for one of rock's most iconic drummers: Neil Peart.

My Beato Club supporters:
Justin Scott
Terence Mark
Jason Murray
Lucienne Kilpatrick
Alexander Young
Jason Wagner
Todd Ladner
Rob Kline
Nicholas Long
Tim Benson
Leonardo Martins da Costa Rodrigues
Eddie Perez
David Solomon
MICHAEL JOYCE
Stephen Stubbs
colin stead
Jonathan Wentworth-Linton
Patrick Payne
MATTHEW KARIS
Matthew Barouch
Shaun Samuels
Danny Kurywchak
Gregory Reedy
Sean Coleman
Alexander Verbitskiy
CL Turner
Jason Pappafotis
John Fulford
Margaret Carno
Robert C
David M Combs
Eric Flatt
Reto Spoerli
Herr Moritz Adam
Monte St. Johns
Jon Beezley
Peter DeVault
Eric Nabstedt
Eric Beggs
Rich Germano
Brian Bloom
Peter Pillitteri
Piush Dahal
Toby Guidry

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref).

— Andrej Karpathy, on Claude Fable 5

Tags: andrej-karpathy, jevons-paradox, anthropic, generative-ai, ai, llms

If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available.

You can also watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the Theater app from Sandwich Vision on Vision Pro. A purchase of the ticket to the live show, the Theater app for $12.99, is also good for replay forever — with surprise bonus features included. It’s a fun, truly immersive way to experience the show.

Hope to see you there tonight, one way or the other.

Link: ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2026

I (weirdly?) love Amy Casey’s paintings of buildings in peril — being swallowed by the sea, being flung into the sky by wind. There’s an element of the Kowloon Walled City to Casey’s work, as well as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (specifically the tomato tornado). (via colossal) Tags: Amy Casey · architecture · art