Medieval Wound Man
From The Public Domain Review, The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man, a diagram found in many medical texts beginning in the early 1400s.
Living on today in libraries from Copenhagen to Munich, the strange figure of the Wound Man gives modern viewers a glimpse of the w...
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• Joy Machine
Collin van der Sluijs’ ‘Wanderland’ Imagines a Vast Ecosystem Encompass the Momentous and Mundane
The Dutch artist reflects on both the momentous and mundane, particularly loss, grief, and the therapeutic powers of nature.
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If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi...
If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator. “Marion Ravenwood said he trapped her in a room and physically assaulted her. But I decided to keep supporting Toht anyway.”
Interviews with some of the dwindling number of...
sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide), this version introduces three major features...
World Cup Wallpapers for Your Phone
Marcos Paulo has been making all sorts of phone-sized wallpapers for the World Cup and posting them to Threads. You have to poke around to find them in his account, but here are a few direct links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Tags: design · fashion · iPhone · soccer · sports · World Cup 2026
How to talk about “AI” without adding to the...
How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization. Suggestions: “artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation” & “AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator”. Seems like the horse is out of the barn on this though…
Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with...
Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with him (full episode). Carle wrote and illustrated The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other children’s books.
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• Kate Mothes
Enigmatic Iconography and Incomplete Narratives Merge in Phlegm’s Murals and Engravings
The London-based artist's monochrome compositions evoke wonder, mischief, and riddles.
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?
"In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace."
Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird...
Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird populations — you can hear it in the thinning of the dawn chorus — but it’s difficult to notice sometimes because of shifting baseline syndrome.
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Solving problems
Hans Zimmer: Live in Concert
Martin Timko (aka matogolf) cut this video of the best musical moments from Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert. He plays a number of pieces from various soundtracks, including Dunkirk, Gladiator, Interstellar, Dune, and The Dark Knight. Great to hear live performances of these iconic pieces.
Tags: Hans Zimmer · Martin Timko · movies · music · remix · video
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
OS 27 Developer Beta 3 Enables New ‘Pace’ and ‘Expressivity’ Sliders for Siri’s New Voices
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an
early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered
Siri: the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively
the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3, out...
What’s It Like to Be Killed by Nature’s Most Brutal Predator
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• Grace Ebert
Amelia Cross Blends Bespoke Tailoring and Trompe-L’œil Painting in Her Sartorial Studies
"You can almost build up a whole character for someone based on what’s inside their pocket or what socks they are wearing to work!"
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Sloan on Fable : “This is literally the core...
Sloan on Fable: “This is literally the core muscle of any/every language model: ‘I need to quickly and accurately understand what kind of document I am inside.’ Yet the sensitivity of that orienteering, the subtlety of it, has gotten so much better.”
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• Krista Stevens
What Science Knows About Grief
"After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy."
New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A...
New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A Tradcath Wedding. “He pronounced the word ‘nuptial’ as noopt-see-all. If that’s correct, never tell me.”