Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The artist's eponymous solo exhibition opens tomorrow at Perrotin in New York.
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OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in Taiwan as Typhoon Champi hit the island nation a few days ago. That’s gotta be close to 100 feet. Waves also inundated this 75-foot-tall lighthouse and a crane 164 feet tall, knocking it over.
Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in the 20 years since he wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma. “Looking at the landscape of food and farming today, I’m sorry to report that things haven’t changed all that much.”
Matt Webb is bunkering down, bracing for more LLM-driven security exploits. “Realistically, let’s say the internet gets infested with AI worms and we need to turn it off and on again, could we do it?” I had not heard of the air-gapped LLM communication 😳
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"The racers do their first tenuous laps behind the pace car. The subterranean rumble of their engines grows."
Longreads
• Maggie Shipstead
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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. The guys try not to fall asleep after rewatching Wes Craven’s 1984 classic, ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ starring Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp.
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Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon d’Or. 100% the right choice — he had the best season of anyone. Like, almost ever.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
9to5mac.com/2026/10/26/apple-responds-to-reports-of-iphone-duos-inner-display-cracking/
A poignant short documentary about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back…
