Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Imagine being a beetle and looking up at a forest of flowers.
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Features | The Verge
• Andrew J. Hawkins
The storm developed quickly over west central Illinois on April 17th, first as a single high-intensity system called a supercell, and then later that evening transforming into a long squall line of thunderstorms. Tucked inside a wall of wind were several smaller, quick-forming tornadoes, one of which landed directly on Rivian’s electric vehicle factory on […]
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Forget Vin Diesel. Asian Americans are the heroes of import car culture."
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
In this episode, we explore Smither Park, an artistic oasis in Houston where self-taught artists transform a humble park into a mesmerizing gallery.
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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We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
— Anthropic, on Twitter
Tags: anthropic, claude, generative-ai, claude-mythos, ai, llms
Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck, which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody. “I thought, ‘This is the best premise for a play, because all the attention goes to the dialogue.’”
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale".
I used AI studio to run this prompt:
Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio
I like that one better than the results I got from the other Nano Banana models when I tried this back in April. It spelled Forest Festival wrong in two different ways though.
Via Hacker News
Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, text-to-image, llm-release, nano-banana
What is queer typography? “I think that covers a lot of what queerness means: an attitude in the face of conformity, an attitude in the sea of passivity, an attitude to say yes when others say no.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
I know there’s been a lot of exciting World Cup action this week, but this 2018 clip from Japan is the best soccer video I’ve seen in a long while.
I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The Garage Tinkerer", patron saint myself!
It's implemented as a single page React app using the <script type="text/babel"> trick to avoid the necessary build step. Here's the code.
Via @erisianrite.com
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics
Release: shot-scraper 1.10
The big new feature is shot-scraper video storyboard.yml, described in detail in Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video.
Tags: shot-scraper
