Russian Circles recorded a live session at KEXP during their US tour. Check out the full video above. The performance features tracks from the new album Nine, Memorial, and Station.
Hell yes! So good!
Russian Circles - Live on KEXP
Taylor Momsen on working with Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron from Soundgarden
July 2026
A photo day with Florian, three concerts, another museum visit, roller skating and some random stuff. (43 photos)
Night on a Spooky Planet
Explanation: What spooky planet is this? Planet Earth on a dark and stormy night, of course. The ghostly scene was photographed at Hverir, a geothermally active area found along northeastern Iceland's volcanic landscape. Triggered by solar activity, geomagnetic storms have unleashed energetic particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field. Penetrating the planet's upper atmosphere at high latitudes, the particles create auroral displays in the starry night sky. Ghostly towers of steam and gas are venting from local fumaroles to dance against the eerie, greenish northern lights. For now, auroral activity on planet Earth remains in a high state as the Sun is only in early phases of decline from the peak of its solar activity cycle. And soon, other ghostly apparitions may dance in your neighborhood. Happy Halloween!
Tomorrow's picture: Sunday's Childe
Tomorrow's picture: Sunday's Childe
dbreunig/nesformer
dbreunig/nesformer
Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros (very slowly) running inside Qwen!
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball (Including The Talk Show)
Sponsorships have continued selling briskly, of late. Knock on wood. As of yesterday, the next opening on the schedule wasn’t until the last week of December, and the Q1 2027 schedule is already filling up. However, due to some schedule rejiggering, next week is now open. Up...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ MacBook Pro Pricing and Configurations for M6, M5 Pro, and M5 Max
Apple’s dynamic configuration UI in their online store doesn’t hide or disguise the pricing or configuration options, but it doesn’t present all of the options at a glance. I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figu...
Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio....
Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio. “Even Matisse wasn’t entirely sure what he had created and nobody wanted to buy it.”
Earth Sized Planets
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Timothy Boomer Captures the Uncanny World of Insect Galls
Gall wasps produce some of the remarkable natural "nurseries."
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 Timothy Boomer Captures the Uncanny World of Insect Galls appeared first on Colossal.
The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I...
The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I feel like Artemisia has actually thought through the logistics of overpowering a grown man and hacking his head off.”
Three-Body Orbits
There are no generalized solutions to the three-body problem. Say you have three planets orbiting each other: it’s impossible to calculate how they will move using Newton’s laws of motion and gravity.
Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general clos...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Only Good Easter Eggs Are Whole-Assed Easter Eggs
Marcin Wichary on the original iPod easter egg on Apple Music’s website 404 page:
I am usually not a fan of easter eggs — most of them are poorly
made — but this might be the best iPod recreation I’ve seen, and
it’s an interesting thing to study:
I think it generally c...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
GM to Pay $220 Million After Betraying Their Own Drivers’ Privacy
Jonathan Stempel, reporting for Reuters:
General Motors will pay $220 million to settle allegations that
it illegally sold drivers’ private behavior and location data to
brokers, who then sold the information to insurers that used it to
set and sometimes increase rates....
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Patrick Stewart Dies at 86
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/patrick-stewart-dead-star-trek-x-men-1236742932/
Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter:
Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a
Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an
otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi
icon, has died. He was 86.
Stewart died Wednesday at his...
Citation Needed
• Molly White
It’s always North Korea
Answering your questions about who was behind the Binance hack, how they launder the money, and where it goes
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
A Rare Disease and Analog Photography Merge in a Portrait of Self-Discovery
"Everything Twice" is a quiet meditation on disability and the ways we orient ourselves in the world
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James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have...
James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
17th-Century Embroidery Meets Hand-Carved Wooden Vessels by Aspen Golann
Golann creates uniquely sculptural, contemporary iterations of furniture and vessels in a nod to early American craft traditions.
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 17th-Century Embroidery Meets Hand-Carved Wooden Vessels by Aspen Golann appeared first on Colossal.
In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for...
In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for melanoma “reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment”.