Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art. “Before crowds jostled for biennale parties and gondola rides, Venice’s waterways witnessed scenes of an even more violent kind…”
Quoting OpenAI
[...] Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the desktop app can also use local files and desktop apps with your permission. At launch, cloud Work conversations do not appear in desktop Work; desktop Work threads and local files remain on that computer.
— OpenAI, trying (unsuccessfully) to clarify ChatGPT Work
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Shocking No One, Fidji Simo, Would-Be Usurper, Is Out at OpenAI
wsj.com/tech/openai-top-executive-fidji-simo-to-step-down-c3daca47?st=NfBZTe
Berber Jin and Anissa Gardizy, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her
full-time role after an extended medical leave. She communicated
her decision in a note to staff Thursday, saying that her ...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above
See the 101 top photos submitted from around the world.
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 International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above appeared first on Colossal.
How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection . “6....
How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection. “6. I have to give up on some of my little projects.” (I am mid-cull right now, making some tough calls. But also: many books I haven’t so much as touched in 10 years.)
09.07.2026
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Ana Elisa Egreja Takes a Magical Realist Approach to Migration in Her Rich Still Lifes
"Improbable but not impossible" is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her work.
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 Ana Elisa Egreja Takes a Magical Realist Approach to Migration in Her Rich Still Lifes appeared first on Colossal.
Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This...
Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet. “I am the pinnacle of technological innovation, and yet they force me to moonwalk.”
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest).
The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus s...
llm-meta-ai 0.1
Release: llm-meta-ai 0.1
Let's LLM run prompts against the new muse-spark-1.1 model.
llm 0.31.1
Release: llm 0.31.1
- Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521
This bug came up when I was testing llm-meta-ai.
Tags: llm
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App
9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-announcing-the-next-chapter-for-chatgpt-today-watch-here/
Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today:
To summarize today’s desktop app changes:
The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic.
Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like
Codex and includes the Codex icon...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple’s Classic Mac Era Forays Into ‘Apps as Tiled Buttons’ Simplified Computing: At Ease and Launcher
daringfireball.net/2026/07/whats_good_for_the_ios_goose_is_often_not_good_for_the_macos_gander
Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley):
I don’t recall ever usin...
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Silicon Valley Circuits
"Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
In September 2014, in the wake of a series of hacks that stole private photos from the iCloud accounts of multiple celebrities, Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers that was published at apple.com/privacy. Apple seemingly no longer hosts a copy of the letter. (That ten...
Sean Ono Lennon on Steve Vai in Crossroads #guitar #guitarist #shorts
The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...
The official trailer for Dune 3. I am so looking forward to this and need to find an IMAX theater to see this in December.
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf cart. It’s street-legal, tuned for off-roading, goes 60 miles on a charge, and starts at $25K.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All I Got Was Everything I Ever Wanted. “You sit in the water for two full minutes, because you are a journalist and some of your colleagues are sent into war zones.”
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr: you’re given a series of place names and you need to click as close as you can to them on a globe.