Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster...
Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster diving, his tenacity in connecting the dots, and his magnetic charisma as he unearths the secrets of others were a captivating lens through which to explore themes of privacy, waste…”
What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280...
What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280 characters. So: “9999…” or “one centillion” or “googol!!!!!!…” or an image of a number? Turns out it’s complicated!
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces
Scherer's paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes.
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart.
"Today more than 1,900 agencies in at least 30 states have signed up for ICE’s task force model, with more than 29,000 deputized officers. With their help, ICE recently hit a record of immigration arrests."
715: Diner Lobster
- Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
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Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models
Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st...
Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st Century So Far. I cannot argue with the top pick: Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. There’s a Spotify playlist with all 200 songs…a great way to spend 15 hours and 25 minutes.
The Remarkable Serbian Election
Quoting Ben Hylak
every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath.
except for our product, of course.
in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much.
we're special that way.
Tags: model-context-protocol, ai
The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no...
The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no longer afford, or have given up on having”. Among the answers: medication, car repairs, new clothes, having more kids, eating out, and contact lenses.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Space Shuttle Discovery’s Starboard Side ‘s’ Is Upside Down
How Jason Snell beat me to linking to this, I don’t know. But like I said back in February, when it comes to signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.
Link: theautopian.com/a-typography-geek-pointed-out-something…
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen
700+ cats. 1900+ film stills.
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Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Traveling Route 66 in the Age of Data Centers
"Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief."
I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery...
I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery site) that kinda kicks ass: NYT Cooking is now a separate source (which you can filter by). The Rigatoni With White Bolognese recipe is a favorite of mine. 🤌
Longreads
• Aube Rey Lescure
Road Trip at the Borderland

Features | The Verge
• Gaby Del Valle
AI has come for Arizona’s water
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one […]
Macbook PROLED XDR Impressions: They Said They Wouldn't!
The first touchscreen Mac is here, and I have thoughts.
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