Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor to use with your Mac if you don’t have a newer Apple keyboard. It’s open-source…the code and instructions are on Github.
Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway. “We estimate that Anne Hathaway films currently account for a staggering 63% of all U.S. exports.” Zendaya is the other 37%.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
From 18th-century hand-appliqué cotton bedcovers to contemporary narrative textile works, Black quilts tell innumerable stories.
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 ‘Stories in the Seams’ Showcases the Enduring Legacy of Black Quilts Across Centuries appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"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.”
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• Kate Mothes
"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… “
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"'We are not terrorists.'"
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• Longreads
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
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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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
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• Grace Ebert
From reclaimed wood, Damien Hoar de Galvan pieces together dynamic sculptures for a daily project.
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