A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year, including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sister’s blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
The Moving Image Archive
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections.
The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricat...
GitHub Octoverse 2026
GitHub Octoverse 2026
I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular:
This is a pretty stark representation of the imp...
Sheryl Crow beautiful acoustic version of “My Favorite Mistake”
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Sprint Review
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turns out to be really fascinating.
For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patient Z...
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral
Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern.
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 A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Guessing the Name: MacBook Studio?
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at
a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled
OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...]
Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selected tech
reporters and ...
The October inflection point for vibe game development
I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've reached a new in...
They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...
They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.
Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...
Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods. “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.
Quoting Terk Terkowitz
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for.
— Terk Terkowitz, An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI
Tags: amazon, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, ai, llms
Steel Beans: How The F*ck Does He Do This?
In this interview, Jeremy DeBardi, aka Steel Beans, stops by the studio hauling along two amplifiers, a guitar, a full drum set, two plastic plants and two disembodied fake heads. This is all necessary for his one of a kind solo performances that in motion look impossible. A...
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Proponents of “Dark Nutrition” Think Everything You Know About Food Is Wrong
"More Americans are rejecting everything they’ve been taught about food."
This can SEE Sound!
This is an acoustic imaging camera
The Mutual Occultation of Ganymede and Io
Explanation: Jupiter is one of the least lonely planets in the Solar System, at least when it comes to natural satellites. 115 moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter so far! (Saturn has the most with 293, but who’s counting.) Ganymede and Io, two of Jupiter’s Galilean m...
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Museum of Miniature Chairs
This museum in Stone Mountain, Georgia is home to thousands of chairs – not for sitting, and not dollhouse furniture, but miniature chairs “with a different purpose,” as the museum’s founder describes them.
Check out their website: https://museumofminiaturechairs.com/
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Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?
From 713 Magazine on Instagram:
In a world where cultural knowledge has become its own form of social currency, knowing the right designers, listening to the right music, and recognizing the right references can make someone appear just as creative as the people actually...