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Taylor Momsen on singing with Soundgarden #grunge #soundgarden

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Apple Homeview Impressions: Not Convinced!

New Smart home display from Apple. With plenty of quirks and features.

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The Taylor Momsen Interview

In this interview, The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen stops by the studio. We talk about her songwriting process, her broad influences, and her experiences playing with rock legends like Soundgarden and AC/DC. We also go in depth on our shared love of The Beatles, ...

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So Many Different Mes

Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo booths to take hundreds of photos of herself, dressed, posed, and presented differently. Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls that 1998 project, ID 400, “a dizzying grid of strangers who are all actually the same woman”. For subsequent projects, Sawada says she’s continued to “examine the relationship between outer appearance and inner self through different concepts”. (via tokyo weekender) Tags: art · photography · Tomoko Sawada

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ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...

ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks like most of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. Oh, and a word processor and a spreadsheet app because why not?

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Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art

Reelizer is a personal project by Roger Erik Tinch that is a collection of movie art: prints, posters, illustrations, albums, books, covers, etc. Careful, you can lose hours here…Tinch has a great eye. A few of my favorites: Tags: art · movie posters · movies · posters · Roger Erik Tinch

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Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...

Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days: Harry Styles and Thom Yorke in conversation. “My laptop has been dead for about 6 years. I don’t know where my charger is.” There’s an accompanying Rolling Stone cover story.

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‘Arcana Borealis’ Summons the Power of Spirituality and Artist Communities

‘Arcana Borealis’ Summons the Power of Spirituality and Artist Communities'Arcana Borealis—Northern Women and Esotericism' delves into a new perspective on modern art the Atenium Art Museum in Helsinki.

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 ‘Arcana Borealis’ Summons the Power of Spirituality and Artist Communities appeared first on Colossal.

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The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how...

The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time.

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(comic) Compensation

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Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net...

Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive. “Every death on my corner is offset, with a third of a toddler left over, and I’d like that number in the conversation the next time somebody calls me a murderer…”

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Apple HomeView

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Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in one place, from playin...

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Meet the Lap Easel, a Portable Companion for Taking Creativity Anywhere

Meet the Lap Easel, a Portable Companion for Taking Creativity AnywhereThe ingenious device is an adjustable support that sits comfortably on your lap or tabletop.

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Quoting Geoffrey Huntley

If the agent isn't using my diagnostics library, I could introspect and update AGENTS.md, but there's still a delta, and it'll drift. Instead, I write a pre-commit hook that checks the git diff for direct calls to observability modules that bypass my diagnostics module. Boom: fail the commit, inject a prompt telling the agent to use the diagnostics library. All of a sudden it's ten out of ten.

— Geoffrey Huntley, nobody should type code by hand anymore. here's what's left.

Tags: coding-agents, generative-ai, git, agentic-engineering, ai, geoffrey-huntley, llms

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web-edit 0.1a0

Release: web-edit 0.1a0

I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file without round-tripping those credentials through the LLM itself.

So... I had Codex and GPT-6 Astra Extra High build this Python web app which provides a web UI for viewing and editing files in a folder. It's intended to be run over Tailscale, so I can have an agent start this running and then edit files via my Tailscale network directly from my phone.

Here's the interface for browsing files in a folder:

Screenshot of a web file manager interface. Header reads "WORKSPACE" above the title "Files", with buttons "Refresh", "Upload files" and "New file" (dark green). A breadcrumb shows "web-edit / web_edit / static". A table with columns "Name", "Size", "Modified" lists four files, each with "Download ↓" and "Delete" links: "app.css" 8.4 KB Oct 12, 2026; "app.js" 671.5 KB Oct 12, 2026; "index.html" 4.3 KB Oct 12, 2026 (underlined, as if hovered); "THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt" 32.3 KB Oct 12, 2026. Below the table: "Images under 2 MB appear inline. Select a text file to edit it." A panel below is labelled "UPLOAD QUEUE" with heading "Add files" and a "Close" button. It has a "Destination folder" text field containing "web_edit", then a dashed drop zone reading "Choose files or drop them here" and "Set a path and filename for each file before uploading." with a "Choose Files" button and the text "no files selected". A greyed-out "Upload files" button sits at the bottom right.

Editing uses CodeMirror 6 - I was going to use Monaco but that still doesn't have a great mobile experience yet.

Tags: projects, python, ai, tailscale, generative-ai, llms, codex

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“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser...

“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run actually seem to run very well.”

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In Trump’s America, the Death Penalty Has Been Resurrected

"As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row."

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Where the Forest Went

A photograph of a green forest has been divided into a grid and then rearranged
Hugh Maxwell’s walk transformed 2.6 million acres of wilderness into a grid for sale. A writer followed his trail to survey what remains.

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Desert Stairway to Heaven

Explanation: This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. But ooh, the sky above it makes you wonder. For example, you may wonder about the dark lane of our own Milky Way galaxy rising behind the expansive Atacama Desert in Chile, the band of zodiaca...

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Improving Conversation on KDO

I’ve been really pleased with how KDO comments are working lately — you folks have been lively, informative, fun, and pushing conversations beyond what I can individually manage. And the vibe of the threads are more closely matching the vibe of the community guidelines. All ...