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From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)

Princeton houses a large digital collection of posters from Russia and Eastern Europe, almost 5000 total item spanning 101 years (1904-2004). This album on Flickr contains nearly 1500 Russian & Soviet posters from 1917-1991 — not sure how much overlap there is between the two. Tags: art · design · propaganda · Russia · Soviet Union

Glenn Fleishman, writing at Six Colors, “Why Notes Will Never Let Us Edit Markdown”: The Notes app added Markdown import and export in the version 26 operating system releases, and the macOS 27 Golden Gate update lets us copy and paste as Markdown. Why can’t we just writ...

Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And, increasingly, ChatGPT is telling people that have normal tech support problems that they have discovered something journalistically notable and that 404 Media, specifically, can help them.

— Jason Koebler, ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

Tags: jason-koebler, openai, journalism, ai, llms, ai-ethics, ai-misuse, generative-ai, chatgpt, 404-media

Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family. I linked to Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.

"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"

"Why writers are the perfect target."

The Portland-based artist's lush gradients are inspired by a love for oil painting.

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 Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap into Art History and Nostalgia appeared first on Colossal.

Apple Newsroom announcement. iPad Mini (A20 Pro) product page. Tech specs page (PDF archive). iPad comparison page showing new A20 iPad Mini, previous A17 iPad Mini, and the 11-inch M4 iPad Air PDF archive]. One-minute commercial. Available in two colors, starlight a...

How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness. “When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.”

According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth. On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 2...

Federico Viticci: Don’t like that the iPhone Duo doesn’t auto-lock when you close it? You can fix it with this simple Shortcuts automation. Two steps: A conditional for when the iPhone is Closed. Lock the screen. I mentioned in my review that I kept closing the Du...

Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded — I’ve reviewed almost none of the code, and it’s built in a language (TypeScript) that I’ve hardly used myself.” There’s a French steampunk version too.

Compelling edges, horizons, shadows, and disappearing paths prompt us to question whether we can truly comprehend what we see.

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 Scott Kahn Invokes Dreams and Liminality in Atmospheric Landscape Paintings appeared first on Colossal.

If you’ve got or get a Duo and don’t try this out, you’re not hooked up right.

Update: But as Cabel Sasser notes, though incredibly fun, this was clearly made by a young Claude-aided developer who never used any of these actual old computers. Let’s just say there are a lot of ahistorical details.

Link: fountaininteractive.com/TinyComputers/

This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum was great. Awesome to see these prints in person.

Playing with scale, Rose Sanderson renders scenes that evoke the Creature Features of early cinema.

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 Wish You Were Here! Rose Sanderson’s Witty Postcards Conjure a Strange Reality appeared first on Colossal.

London’s Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition that has been going since 1965. You can see a gallery of all the winners on the competition website (and also places like The Guardian and The Atlantic.) Photos above by Kutub Uddin, Amelie Davis, Michał Michalski, James Lewin, and Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas. Tags: best of · best of 2026 · photography