"What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste."
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
Revolutions
"Joël Kyaviro has overcome violence, poverty, and the Ebola crisis to become the best cyclist to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How far can he go?"
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 109 – Reg Crypto
The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Flexible working hours
Can Earth Run Out of Water?
We’re using freshwater faster than nature can replace it, draining some sources beyond recovery. But avoiding water bankruptcy may be surprisingly affordable.
#kurzgesagt
#inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science
#waterscarcity #freshwater
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Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Contradiction and the Unknown Permeate Isaiah Lee’s Imaginative Dollhouse Paintings
For Chicago artist Isaiah Lee, a dollhouse becomes the site of uncanny imaginations.
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 Contradiction and the Unknown Permeate Isaiah Lee’s Imaginative Dollhouse Paintings appeared first on Colossal.
Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America ....
Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America. Totally pathetic and stupid. Maps are wayfinding tools and this toadying political change will help no one find their way.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
Rachel Entrekin Is Ready to Take What’s Hers
"She’s been winning races outright for nearly a decade. Why are we only now learning her name?"
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
These Bats Hang in the Suburbs
For thousands of years, a massive bat colony has lived in a cave about 30 minutes from San Antonio, Texas. Ryan Huling, author of the Book "The Hidden Nations of Animals," tells us all about it.
If you want to hear about Ryan’s journey to visit other animal colonies, check out our episode titled: “The Animal Worlds We Rarely See."
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far.
ChatGPT Work is actually two products
The more interesting version of Ch...
Why I Can’t Quit Yet
In today's livestream I talk all the reasons why I have to keep going with this channel.
Check out the Labor Day Complete Bundle here: https://rickbeato.com/s/labor-day-8
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Finalist 4
My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner inspired by paper day planners. I wrote quite a bit about Finalist when it fi...
30.08.2026
29.08.2026
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Introducing Hy4 Preview
New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face.
This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B,...
Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98...
Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator.
Sean Ono Lennon talks about “Shreds” videos #guitar #music #shorts
Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards , featuring...
Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors, has an exemplary review of the experience:
I didn’t mind the reduced pace of the NBA broadcast, which toggled
between cameras under each basket, but Stratechery’s Ben Thompson
felt strongly that the best option would’ve been a single
c...
How an idea becomes a Yetch.Studio product
@scientificamerican