Ross Anderson on NASA’s recently launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which may “be able to deliver the first direct images of distant planets in visible light” as well as measure the effects of dark energy.
llm-typesafe 0.1a0
Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0
I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model. Install it like this:
llm install llm-typesafe
Then set an API key (get one here, the waitlist seems to move pretty fast):
llm keys set typesafe
# Paste key
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Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were...
Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were shaped like actual canyons? What would that sound like? “The floor sets the key. The shape of the walls sets the mood. The width sets how long one pass takes, and the depth sets the echo.”
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Deep work
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest
This year, the competition welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe.
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Fun facts about our bigatures
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Siri AI Class-Action Lawsuit Settlement Website Is Now Live
macrumors.com/2026/09/20/siri-ai-settlement-website-now-live/
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S.
class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the
settlement website is now live.
Apple will pay an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible
customers, who can submit a cl...
Dimensional Drawings of Apple Products
So that companies can use them to make accessories like cases and bands, Apple maintains a collection of downloadable dimensional drawings and tech specifications for many of their products, including the iPhone, AirPods, Watch, and iPad. They are beautiful.
I love their corner & edge measurements…you can see how fiddly Apple is with their curves. Curiously, the only Mac listed is the Macbook Neo. I guess that’s the only one that needs accessorizing?
Also, I presume if you’ve got a 3D printer, you could use these to make your own very precise accessories?
Tags: Apple · design
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
Impossibility is a Myth
"Sacha Jafri sold an artwork for $62 million dollars in 2021 at an auction. But the money never changed hands. What happened?"
Longreads
• 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...