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"How a $168,000 Michael Jordan rookie card rocked the $15 billion trading card industry."

When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps like Bluesky or Threads, they use this little trick to replace the “Follow” button with the app’s logo.

“All our neighbors worked for those firms — Facebook, Google and Apple. None of them would let their children interact with any screens. They all knew how addicting they were and how to protect their own children.”

Antidepressants don't make people happy overnight. Instead, they slowly change how brain cells communicate, helping worn-down neural circuits recover over time. Here's why they take weeks to work, and why they help millions of people. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_in...

"I typically create giant nostalgic but functional pieces, mostly through woodworking," Baldwin says.

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Long past time to quit X. “Those who continue to post on X — in particular those X users who are not racist psychopaths — are enhancing the site’s usefulness to [Musk] as a propaganda tool by drawing more eyes to the platform… “

"'We are not terrorists.'"

The former Eater correspondent has a new home—and a full plate. Here, she talks about growing up in NYC, favorite meals, and memorable reads.

We all dream of the perfect vacation when everything goes right. This episode is about the opposite. Hear stories of people having near death travel experiences.

PLUS: We wanna hear from you! Tell us about your intergenerational travel stories. Who did you go with?  Where did you go? What did you learn about traveling with this person of a different age? How did the trip go? What are some stories you brought back? We want to hear it all. 

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Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com through its paces as a fast secure sandbox. Explore what it would...

My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable core, and allow users to safely extend it in many directions by having LLMs fill in the missing pieces. We can give our users super powers.

— Jeremy Morrell, Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

Tags: sandboxing, llms, ai, generative-ai

Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights from a lightly edited transcript (prompt to Claude: "very ...

From reclaimed wood, Damien Hoar de Galvan pieces together dynamic sculptures for a daily project.

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The winner of the competition receives a £15,000 award plus a commissioned work for London's National Portrait Gallery.

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Charli XCX is a Grammy-winning artist who has been making music since she was a teenager. In July 2026, she released her eighth album, Music, Fashion, Film. It debuted at number 1 on the UK charts—her 4th album in a row to hit number 1 there. In addition to her music career, for the last few years, she’s been acting in films. And for this episode, we talked about how those experiences inspired her song “Camera," and how she and producer Finn Keane figured out how to translate that into music.

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Titled "Neo Hokusai," the monumental arrangement last weekend in Brussels covered nearly 14,000 square feet.

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