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Joe Flint and Jessica Toonkel, reporting for The Wall Street Journal last week: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or roughly 1,000 positions globally, its biggest round of layoffs since 2022, as it struggles with slowing growth and customer engagement. Co-Chief Executi...

Andrew Chow, writing for Time: Just below the broad smile he’s been wearing all morning, John Ternus’ hands are shaking. On this September day in Silicon Valley, Apple’s new CEO is surrounded by celebrities, tech enthusiasts, and reporters who have flocked to Apple Park...

"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta.

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 In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind appeared first on Colossal.

I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent int...

Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. Soundcloud, YouTube, and elsewhere.

"The burrito’s history as a symbol of resistance."

Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature? “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.”

The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star with a very dense stellar core that is shedding its outer layers.

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 Come Face-to-Face with the Lion Nebula in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Portrait appeared first on Colossal.

Writing for Vanity Fair (archive link), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era. Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant American of our age. Sometimes a man meets his moment, an...

"The alleged perpetrators in the 'Cornell Seven' case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all."

Explanation: Explanation : What is Treble Clef? This unusual radio structure extends over 2 million light-years and resembles a common musical symbol -- but has its visible light hidden by our own Milky Way Galaxy. Examined in 2004, the nature of VLSS J0318.9+5755, dubbed Tr...

We step foot into the Haines Shoe House, a famous shoemaker’s ambitious advertising experiment. Then, we trek to the World Famous Giant Shoe Museum, a giant collection from a man’s giant fixation.
 

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Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed.

Tags: datasette, llm

Release: llm-echo 0.5

I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts that have been fed to it. The new release now updates the simulated token usage counts to take tool calls, system prompts, and reasoning tokens into account.

Example usage:

uvx --with llm-echo llm -m echo 'hi there' -o thinking 1 --usage

Outputs:

First I consider the prompt, then I decide what to say.
{
  "prompt": "hi there",
  "system": "",
  "attachments": [],
  "stream": true,
  "previous": []
}
Token usage: 2 input, 24 output

Tags: llm

Release: web-edit 0.1a2

web-edit (previously) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale.

I added a "copy to clipboard" option for both text and image data. I needed this because I was running pelican prompts on a laptop from my phone (here's DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017) and I wanted an easy way to copy the resulting logs into a Gist.

Tags: projects, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, deepseek

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Ruben Bolling’s long-running Tom the Dancing Bug is one of my favorite comic strips. I’ve been a huge fan since the early 1990s, when I started reading it in alternative newspapers. (Newspapers were sort of like websites, excepted they were printed daily or weekly. I swear.)...