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"Through hosting two decades of Top Chef, writing four books, and opening restaurants across the country, the celebrity chef never stopped showing up to cook in the kitchen of Craft, his pioneering New York restaurant. Until he decided to close it."

"Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened."

The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta.

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Link: daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/06/30/ep-451

You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and suddenly some contemporary pop culture thing snaps into place? Anyway, I found out how Isadora Duncan died and now I better understand the “no capes” thing in The Incredibles.

Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser Shavings. “The Japanese artist erases images & then uses those eraser shavings to recompose the images into three-dimensional form, transforming the byproduct of erasure into delicate works of art.”

Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: 404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses. “Apple Hide My Email is leaking email add...

"Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life."

First noticed by South American fishermen in the 1600s, El Niño can affect the weather significantly! #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #elninoeffect #weathereffects #elniño Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.co...

The Last Astronomers. “Many fear that if unleashed in all parts of the scientific process, AI tools could lead to nothing less than the death of astrophysics as a human endeavor.”

Idris Elba, knight of the realm and forever Avon Barksdale’s right-hand man in my heart, has been a DJ since he was 14 years old. He recently DJed a house party for Black House Radio and it looks like everyone had a lot of fun.

You can also find this mix on Soundcloud, along with many more of Elba’s mixes.

Tags: Idris Elba · music · video

Imagine being a beetle and looking up at a forest of flowers.

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 Theo Bosboom Takes a Bug’s-Eye View in His Perspective-Shifting ‘Flowerscapes’ appeared first on Colossal.

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 […]

"Forget Vin Diesel. Asian Americans are the heroes of import car culture."

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

Pre-show: Who’s bored? 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps Follow-up: Nugs and Sonos As the prophecy foretold… ☹️ Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t Rumors about Siri AI indexing Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist) Price increases abound! ☹️ ...

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.’”

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (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