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What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”

Victoria Song, in her Optimizer column/newsletter for The Verge: I’ve been aggressively avoiding Muse since it launched a few weeks ago. Sure, some of that is because I was busy testing other devices. But the number-one reason why is that I am horribly vulnerable when fa...

What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”

If one-upping the iPhone was a sport, Xiaomi would be Lebron James.

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Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website, he offers city packs of hundreds of scans for sale and free sample packs as well. You can also check out how he captures the textures on Instagram and YouTube. This is a modern take on stone rubbing. Tags: cities · design · Noah Nolet · photography

Release: commit-rewriter 0.2

Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3

Tags: git

Release: datasette 1.0a41

Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release.

I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use.

Tags: javascript, datasette, web-components, alex-garcia, opentelemetry

Great interview from Stern, as usual, seemingly conducted on the old set of Three’s Company. She opened by asking if AI is going to wipe out humanity, and I think Zuck whiffed by not simply laughing and saying no. She also directly asked his thoughts on people calling Meta G...

Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the Greek ships that set out for Troy were from and what they may have looked like. “No Homeric ship survives. What we have are pictures: a handful of painted sherds of the twelfth century BC…”

Meta’s annual keynote yesterday was a tight 55-minute live event held on their campus in Menlo Park. I watched the whole thing this morning, before recording tomorrow’s episode of Dithering. (Which you should subscribe to.) It was a good keynote. Consumer products announced...

Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)

Taehyoung Maria Jeon reimagines the plants cohabitating in her apartment, beginning with leaves and stems before venturing into surreal terrain.

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 Fantastic Plants Spring from Taehyoung Maria Jeon’s Digital Illustrations appeared first on Colossal.

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt returns as Booth, the character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but 8 years later. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, directed by David Fincher.

"Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems."

Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe” of up to 4 steps to turn a starting set of numbers into another set of numbers.

"From a certain height, the problem becomes one of knowledge itself: Do you believe what you hear, or do you hear what you believe?"

Every step you take creates tiny electrical signals inside your bones. You’ll never charge your phone with them, but they may help tell your skeleton where it needs to grow stronger. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #biology #phys...

The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi — hold for students today: “breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way”.

Apple Newsroom:

Apple today announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s storied Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhere else.

Apple might be the most interesting architecture company in the world this century. They have a core look and feel they apply to their own facilities built from the ground up (e.g., Apple Park, certain flagship retail stores), but they also have tremendous respect for historic buildings they take over.

The balconies in Apple Music Hall are bronze, but the lighting (at least in Apple’s photos) is so warm that the balconies look a little like giant Mac Minis.

Link: apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-opens-apple-music-hall-a…

Dan Luu serves up some copiously documented claim chowder: After this point, most further predictions that I saw were either non-falsifiable or resolve in the future. Note that I didn’t attempt to catalogue statements that are nonsensical or were simply factually incorre...