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★ Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

Regarding my recent pieces regarding Apple’s shitty ads in the App Store and Apple News (and, perhaps soon, Apple Maps), a friend sent me this pithy take: The ads Apple is happy to inflict on us in its apps are the equivalent of the stickers it would never allow on its p...

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WorkOS MCP

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My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their MCP server. 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. Connect your agent today.

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(comic) Keep improving your craft

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An Uncomplicated Man , Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s...

An Uncomplicated Man, Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s The Odyssey. “I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script. Sadly, Damon’s Odysseus isn’t complicated or wily or artful.”

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Framework 13 Pro: The Modular Laptop is Real!

The modular Macbook Pro for Linux users. Color me impressed.

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Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono’s Wooden Assemblages

Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono’s Wooden AssemblagesDressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages in Fumiaki Aono's imaginative sculptures.

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 Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono’s Wooden Assemblages appeared first on Colossal.

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Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet...

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”.

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Trump’s Assault on Science Continues

I appreciate the plain speech of Science magazine’s Derek Lowe in his recent piece, The Assault On Science Funding Continues. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I’m about to at the end of this paragaph I am so...

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Building a Secret Moon Base

Deep inside the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters lies a hidden treasure: ice. If we can harness it for water, fuel, and construction, these frozen, lightless pits could become the perfect place for humanity’s first permanent Moon base. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesag...

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Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight

Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight

A new Citation Needed data project maps the Trump family’s web of cryptocurrency ventures, which have been generating billions in income for the president.

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Welp, right at the top of the CDC page on autism and...

Welp, right at the top of the CDC page on autism and vaccines: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.” 🫨

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He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

"Charles Ross spent 50 years building 'Star Axis,' a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?"

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The Sul Ross Desk (Classic)

In the 1980s, a group of friends on the track team at Sul Ross State University hauled a discarded dorm room desk to the top of a mountain. They left a notebook there to keep track of their run times and leave little notes for each other. Then… other people found it. And then… it started a tradition.

Visit the Atlas entry for the Sul Ross desk, and learn more about the archives containing the Sul Ross desk notebooks.


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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from various sources. This looks to be mostly a thing in China. Res...

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sqlite-utils 3.39.1

Release: sqlite-utils 3.39.1

I back-ported a fix for table.delete_where() that shipped in version 4.

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Eric Gales plays “Elijah” from the Sinners movie  #guitar #guitarcover #shorts

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Ruff v0.16.0

Ruff v0.16.0 Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing thanks to new default Ruff checks and my unpinned "ruff" dev dependency. From Brent Westbrook's...

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‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’

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Fascinating essay by Nikhil Suresh: On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their board. As we were chat...

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EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful

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The European Commission on Thursday: The Commission found that Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its obligations under the DMA...

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Court Grants SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Google Lawsuit

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Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit, marking a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We’re pleased that the court rejected Google’s...