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Guo's paintings in 'Temple II,' opening next week at Hollis Taggart, explore memory, presence, and loss.

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I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.

Font scaling support on mobile devices has been added. If you use iOS'/iPadOS' system wide font scaling (“Dynamic Type”) or Android’s equivalent, FeedCity will now honour these settings and scale its pages accordingly.

(On iOS, this raises the default font size from 16px to 17px, which I currently do not “correct”. So type is slightly larger by default. Currently, I have kept it like this. I don’t know, if it’ll stay larger.)

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop w...

Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. The human nervous system wasn’t designed for the polycrisis. “Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out.”

In less than four years, mathematician Steve Strogatz watched AI go from flailing at basic arithmetic to solving problems that baffle the world’s best mathematicians. In September of 2026, Open AI announced it had solved a Millennium Prize Problem, one of math’s highest achi...

Last week, I received a nice comment about my little 35mm Focal Length
Equivalents site (short: FLE). And that was enough motivation to improve
the site. I still had - and still have - ideas to improve the site, and so
I spent some hours to make it a little better.

Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labour takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.

On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible, sometimes haunted and sometimes spooky places. This episode takes us back to1976, when a television crew filming an episode of the show “The Six Million Dollar Man” descended on a rundown funhouse in Long Beach, California. While filming, they accidentally broke the arm off a wax dummy. Except...it wasn't a wax dummy. It was a real body. The body of a notorious train robber from the early 1900s, named Elmer McCurdy. Check out the Atlas entry for Elmer McCurdy’s grave.  

For more information on Elmer, we recommend Mark Svenvold’s book “Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw.” 

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Release: ttok 1.0

I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead!

I figured switching the default was a reasonable excuse to finally ship a 1.0.

OpenAI haven't actually confirmed that GPT-6 uses the same tokenizer as the GPT-5 family yet - there's an angry issue about it - but I found this commit by William Liu which reports on an experiment he ran confirming that the tokenizers are likely the same:

All seven GPT models (5.5, 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, 6 Astra/Sol/Luna) report 44,794 tokens and match each other on every one of the 31 fixtures. GPT-6 introduces no input-count change on this corpus.

Tags: projects, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, tokenization

Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly ha...

Release: ttok 0.4

ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library.

It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-models command to list available models.

It works with uvx, so you can count tokens in anything like this:

cat file.txt | uvx ttok

Tags: projects, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, tokenization

An actual post from the sitting president of the United States:

The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

This, from the self-professed “party of free speech”. Trump’s screws are so loose you can hear them rattling around.

Link: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117406176604364910

In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word. “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”

Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things:

• Problem-solving using computers
• Learning to control complexity while solving these problems

I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve problems with computers and how to control the complexity of those solutions is less valuable than it is today, so I think it will continue to be a viable career even with the advent of AI tools.

— Carson Gross

Tags: computer-science, carson-gross, careers, ai

New laptops are dropping left and right! Let's talk about Google's entry.

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Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying acro...

David Smith, last week: Been really interesting to watch the iOS 27 adoption curve over the first two weeks. Clearly on a different path than previous years. Still steadily growing, at a similar rate to the ‘steady growth’ phase of most years, but without the big surge a...

It’s almost like you can predict the timing of such things, if you pay attention to Apple’s consistent patterns.

Link: x.com/gregjoz/status/2108226096407994858

Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”