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"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I've seen about the US government...

The artist's giant woodcuts are on view this month at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe.

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 Annalise Gratovich’s Life-Size Woodcuts Meld Nature, Memory, and Ukrainian Heritage appeared first on Colossal.

Sports but make it wealth inequality: “Brunson…didn’t take an extra $113M so the Knicks could sign KAT, Mikal Bridges and keep OG long term… It’s almost as if sharing wealth leads to better outcomes for all…”

What could 1% of the richest countries’ income achieve? From malaria vaccines and clean water to renewable energy, a surprisingly small fraction of global wealth could transform millions of lives. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #...

"With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment of this palace tell us about the UK?"

The .ART Award includes a $15,000 Grand Prize, residencies at Château du Fresne in France and Anfitrion in Spain, and more.

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Dylan tries his hand at playing a “glass armonica,” a musical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin. Its high-pitched, eerie sounds were rumored to cure all kinds of illnesses – or even, sometimes, cause them.

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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[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is "me, but 3 years ago" or a good friend.

— Julia Evans, write for 1 person

Tags: writing, julia-evans

From Hell Month continues with Bill, Chris, and Joanna revisiting the nanny from hell in the 1992 thriller ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,’ starring Rebecca De Mornay, Annabella Sciorra, and Matt McCoy.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering. In this essay, we argue that there is enough evide...

Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns from which tables were included in the results. To build that, we w...

The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compatible with the PyEmscripten platform defined in PEP 783) directly to PyPI a...

Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0

See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details.

Tags: lua, webassembly, pyodide

Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:

President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.

Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so. The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of trustees to rename it was illegal.

A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.

Link: apple.news/ANLNtQOeuSkiJ35tzkYw9oA

From Apple’s Developer site: To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running...

Anthropic: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. ...

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, wheth...