"Sacha Jafri sold an artwork for $62 million dollars in 2021 at an auction. But the money never changed hands. What happened?"
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
"Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage."
What’s your “origin” video game? “I’m talking about the...
What’s your “origin” video game? “I’m talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.” Mine is Lode Runner. Reflexes + puzzles + constraints + make-your-own levels = hooked for life. You?
TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback...
TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was written in part to help save the cathedral from demolition.
This Is What a Godlike Civilization Would Look Like
Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with the code KURZGESAGT9 will get the first month paid for by us: https://planetwild.com/r/kurzgesagt/join/9 If you want to get to know them better first...
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird
"Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of their marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?"
“The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big AI needs...
“The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big AI needs to follow all current laws—just like everyone else. So far—they haven’t. When Big AI breaks those laws, they must face prosecution and penalties—just like everyone else. So far—they haven’t.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Where Cities and Oceans Meet
"In New Orleans, water is coming. What should we do with the time we have left?"
Longreads
• Mark Blondin and Betsy Blondin
Still On Its Way to Cleveland
Features | The Verge
• Mia Sato, Victoria Song, Hayden Field, and Lauren Feiner
Can you forget how you feel about Meta?
In 2021, as a whistleblower emerged with dramatic allegations that Facebook was harming children, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a rebuttal on Facebook. “We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives,” he wrote in a note to Meta staff, which he […]
Ed Sheeran tried to stay neutral on a moving train. “If...
Ed Sheeran tried to stay neutral on a moving train. “If [celebrities] remain neutral (silent), they won’t offend anyone and they will, hopefully, appeal to everyone. They use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.”
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Mothman!
Today we venture (with flashlights on) into the TNT area, a vast abandoned munitions factory in Point Pleasant, West Virginia – where, in the 1960s, people started reporting sightings of a strange, winged creature with red glowing eyes. The creature became known as “the Moth...
Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun
Explanation: This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields visible around the Sun's bright disk. Sunspots typically last for weeks and were expected, since these sp...
Stargazing 5
‘Law Abiding Citizen’ With Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Craig Horlbeck
After 10 years of intense preparation and strategizing, Bill, Van, and Craig are ready to revisit Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in the 2009 crime thriller ‘Law Abiding Citizen.’
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM format: it still acce...
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a first-class, fully supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform".
A n...
MCP was always a bad idea?
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News.
This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today.
Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc) with unfettered inter...
llm-keys-ui 0.1
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1
This plugin solves a very specific problem.
I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone.
Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally that means I need to configure an API key.
I don't like pasting API keys into agent sessions, so I wanted a way to get those keys onto a machine without pasting them into the ChatGPT app directly.
With this plugin, I can tell Codex to run:
uvx --with llm-keys-ui llm keys-ui --all
Then have it tell me the URL - including local network or Tailscale device IPs - for an interface to save additional API keys.
Then later it can use a command like llm keys get anthropic as part of a shell command when it needs to use a key.
Tags: llm, coding-agents, codex
datasette-explain 0.2.2
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2
- Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages.
I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin.