Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The Wadsworth Museum in Hartford, CT in August. Vuong used “portraiture, landscape, and snapshots to document queer and immigrant life in the Connecticut River Valley over two decades”.
When A.I. Is a Member of the Family . How a family of...
When A.I. Is a Member of the Family. How a family of three in a Cleveland suburb uses AI chatbots. This is wild.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Helena Minginowicz Transforms Humble Paper Towel into Ethereal Paintings
"Civilizations are remembered through their monuments, but understood through the things they throw away," the artist says.
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The Best Shots From the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest
The best aerial photography reminds us that we don’t have to go all the way to space to experience a small helping of the overview effect. The 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year contest celebrates the best photos taken from the air; here are a few of my favorites:
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Longreads
• Krista Stevens
On Loving Birds
"A couple of years after I began volunteering, I realized I was hell-bent on healing birds because they, too, had healed me—in more ways than one."
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Premature optimization
Billy Joel talks about his first big hit! #billyjoel #songwriting #shorts
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Remember Musk’s Suit Alleging a Conspiracy Between Apple and OpenAI?
Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025:
After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings,
on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple
and OpenAI.
At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping
Apple’s ...
A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State...
A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State Fair this year. They’re all some variation of “jerked pork rolled in butter & sugar, deep fried in dill pickle batter, and served with a side of cheese curd mayo”; I’d happily try any of them.
The Billy Joel Interview
In this interview I finally get to sit down with the legendary Billy Joel. We talk about Billy's prolific career as a singer and songwriter, his love of classical music, and his techniques for writing such timeless music. Billy also shares some hilarious stories and demonstr...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Uncanny Landscapes in Pen and Ink Span Wooden Panels by John Buck
The Bozeman-based artist is known for his eccentric wooden sculptures that draw on folklore, personal memory, and daily observations.
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Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out...
Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search. “We’ve been clear about what we want. We want a technical solution that allows you to be discoverable without having to give your content away for free.”
Exploring NYC With Next Generation Skaters
This might be my new favorite skate video? It follows a pair of young skaters around the city as they chat about their friendship, share tips about living life, and try skating everything that is even remotely skateable.
Best friends, Ari and Luca are two of the most promising NYC talents right now. They are consistently street skating, crushing events, and are keeping skateboarding exciting for a generation we seemingly missed.
If these two stick with it, we have no problem betting that they’ll be the next big names out of the city, and we were lucky enough to catch them right before they arrive.
(via craid mod)
Tags: cities · NYC · skateboarding · sports · video
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
The Forgotten Bombing of LaGuardia Airport
“It’s been called ‘one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.’ It remains unsolved. But what happened next is almost a worse crime.”
Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t,...
Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t, then we are not as sovereign as we imagine; if we can’t, a machine god has already taken over this planet, and it’s called the market.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Lucrative Bird-Singing Contests That Are Pushing Species to the Brink
"Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis."
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Beyond the Game: Take A Seat in Dallas
Visitors to the Truck Yard beer garden in The Colony, Texas (outside Dallas) are treated to a very unusual art collection: a sweeping array of around 1400 hand-painted toilet seats, many of which are also collaged with objects ranging from tortoise shells to Zippo lighters t...
Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)
Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)
I went looking for a definition of "Directly Responsible Individuals" and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, where it's used to describe the person who is "ultimately accountable for th...
shot-scraper 1.11
Release: shot-scraper 1.11
Some minor improvements, mainly around command option consistency and making the server: mechanism used by both shot-scraper video and shot-scraper multi work if the server takes longer than a second to start serving traffic.
server: pro...
sqlite-utils 4.1.1
Release: sqlite-utils 4.1.1
Mainly a fix for an edge case that regular Claude chat spotted while experimenting with the 4.1 release to answer a question about ON DELETE.
table.transform() now raises a TransactionError if called while a transaction i...