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The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written...

The trailer for Behemoth!, a forthcoming film written and directed by Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Andor) and starring Pedro Pascal & Olivia Wilde. Great trailer: it pulls you in without revealing anything about the plot.

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A Strange Continent

"An English expat returns home and unfolds his Brompton bike."

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(comic) Team dynamics and the bell curve

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On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...

On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this case). “A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.”

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith

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The All My Dead Cats and Other Losses author and Flytrap co-founder on grief, breaking and fixing things, and Alice Wong.

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“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI

Mission Impossible. Oppenheimer. F1. The Odyssey. Top Gun: Maverick. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inception. Dune. Filmmakers and studios who make movies like these love to emphasize their heavy use of practical effects, i.e. real cars jumping real bridges or real people hanging off ...

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The Rise of the Corporate Rave

"The once underground and countercultural 'rave' has fully spread to the mainstream in the form of themed pop-ups and sponsored parties. For newbies, it can be a sanitized gateway into electronic music. For true ravers, it’s more complicated."

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The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...

The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. They’ve gotten (some of) the band back together — perhaps this will be a return to form for Marvel?

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Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac.

I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's similar in shape to LM Studio, providing both a chat interface and a localhost API server for accessing models.

The app picked up MLX models I had already tried that were present in my Hugging Face cache directory, which was a nice touch.

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Tags: macos, python, ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, mlx, prince-canuma

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Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery.

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 Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book appeared first on Colossal.

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New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...

New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today. “The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now.”

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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools...

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The Bone Rush

"Dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires. And the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. rex."

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Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.

"The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America."

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad GPU?

How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative […]

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The Everyman’s Science Museum

Step back in time with us at the Wagner Free Institute of Science and explore how this museum defies modernity, preserving its original mission of education and inclusivity since the 19th century. 


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‘Hitch’ With Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Mina Kimes

Bill, Van, and Mina call up the date doctor for some dancing tips after revisiting the 2005 romantic comedy classic ‘Hitch,’ starring Will Smith, Kevin James, Eva Mendes, and Amber Valletta.

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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy. “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.”

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[Sponsor] WorkOS MCP: Manage Your Auth Platform From Any AI Agent

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Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive.

The WorkOS MCP server gives agents the same access as your dashboard login. Hundreds of operations, discoverable at runtime. Connect in one command via OAuth, with scoped tokens instead of a master API key. Pass a screenshot of your marketing site and ask your agent to match the login page. If a human had to do it before, an agent can do it now.

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He Wrote 'We Can't Stop' for Rihanna. She Said No.

Theron Thomas: The Science of Pop Melodies
In this interview, Theron Thomas shares his incredible journey from his beginnings as a struggling artist in the Virgin Islands to becoming one of pop music's top songwriters. Theron openly shares his early struggles finding work, managing initial success, and his ultimate r...