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“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it to the back wall of the store, touch it, and exit out the front without an Apple staff person talking to us.”
The Internet Archive estimates the Wayback Machine will hit a lifetime total of 1 trillion archived web pages later this year in October.
Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from “asshole” yellow jackets.
Trying to cut back on social media? The methaphone is a phone-shaped slab of clear acrylic that you can carry instead of your phone to “help you manage cravings and withdrawal symptoms”.
“The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he’s building a 19th pool…”
A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of Pooja Saxena’s photography of signs and lettering found on the streets of cities all over India.
Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick Knight, takes place in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, which is maybe the most sci-fi looking thing on Earth.
(via susannah breslin)
Tags: CERN · fashion · Iris van Herpen · LHC · Nick Knight · science
I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, produced the Spider-verse movies) are directing. Out in theaters March 2026.
Tags: Andy Weir · books · Christopher Miller · movies · Phil Lord · Project Hail Mary · Ryan Gosling · space · trailers · video
Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species that resemble butterflies, Hubble photos, or psychedelic Jurassic Park flora.
Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she has held for 37 years. Your reminder to watch the excellent documentary The September Issue.
From Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies (Amazon):
Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites.
But despair is a concession.
Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.
Tags: Cole Arthur Riley
“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the studio announced Wednesday.” Bond + Villeneuve could be a potent combination.
Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming. (I had to triple-check that this was indeed Rick Rubin the record producer…)