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James Cameron’s Instructions to Theater Projectionists Regarding ‘Avatar 3: Fire and Ash’

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The letter is typeset in Papyrus, the typeface for which James Cameron’s affection inspired not one but two classic SNL shorts starring Ryan Gosling — which Cameron has a good sense of humor about.

Terrence Malick’s letter accompanying Tree of Life in 2011 was plainly and humbly set in Helvetica. David Lynch’s accompanying Mulholland Drive was also in Helvetica, but in a very Lynchian way. And then there is Stanley Kubrick, whose letter to projectionists that accompanied Barry Lyndon was typeset in Futura — quite the feat in 1975. (It was almost certainly IBM’s Mid-Century typeface, a beautiful adaptation of Futura for their Executive line of typewriters.) Cool custom letterhead on Kubrick’s as well.

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Jaguar Type 00 EV First Ride: It Still Looks Odd, but It’s Seriously Quick

We took a hair-raising trip around a track in the final four-door GT version of Jaguar's polarizing relaunch concept car. Is just might be good enough to end the British brand's abysmal run of luck.

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From Playbooks to Gamebooks: Why Static Security Response Is Giving Attackers the Advantage

A decade ago, SOAR playbooks were revolutionary. They codified knowledge, accelerated response times, and freed analysts from repetitive tasks. But

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How we interview customers at Buttondown

In which we provide space for you to ramble at us

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Bonus - Geeking Out

Luke and Jonathan start talking immediately after the previous episode and decide to record again. Luke geeks out about the Notes feature, his experiments with it, and subsequent contribution attempt. Jonathan enjoys the show.

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A Frontier Model Built Like a Brain with Python and Rust

Statue of a dragon. Pathway's Dragon Hatchlings AI architecture is a break from the transofrmer models created in the past.

The team from Pathway believes that the transformer architecture developed eight years ago has reached its limits, which no amount

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Uh Oh! The Infantilization of Failure

When apps fail, when software breaks, you'll likely encounter a message constructed from a specific vocabulary: "Oops!" "Uh oh!" "Whoops!"

Sometimes you'll get the full nursery treatment: an "Oopsie-daisy" with a sad cartoon robot making a pouty face.

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Why AI Parallelization Will Be One of the Biggest Challenges of 2026

Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, argues that the biggest winners in today’s AI boom resemble the “picks and shovels” sellers of the California Gold Rush: companies that provide tools enabling others to build with AI.

During the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, the people who benefited most were not those who came West to

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Break the AI Gridlock at the Intersection of Velocity and Trust

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“Our AI prototypes are brilliant, but getting them to production takes six months — if we’re lucky.” Sound familiar? Teams

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Rob Reiner’s death and legacy

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Rob Reiner is the director of classics that include “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “This is Spinal Tap.” His wife Michele Singer Reiner worked alongside him and was famous in her own right, including photographing what would become the cover of Donald Trump...

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How a Component-First Approach Fixes Figma-to-Code

You’ve probably tried one of the Figma-to-code tools that promise to turn your designs into working React or HTML with

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Listened to a podcast interview with the CEO of AWS. It's a $107 billion business with hundreds of thousands of employees.

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The NakedJen film festival is coming up.

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Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation

Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation

Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails

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The Bare Metal Myth: Why VMs Now Win for Containers

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There are strong opinions about the best way to deploy containers. The purist wants to run containerized applications on pure

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What Is The Tule Fog, And Will It Ever Go Away?

What Is The Tule Fog, And Will It Ever Go Away?
California's Central Valley is a 400-mile long expanse, penned in by the Sierra Nevadas to the East and the Coast Ranges to the west. The flatland is composed of remarkably fertile soil, as both mountain ranges erode into and drain out through the valley via the San Francisc...

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For day 2 of the winter photo challenge: cozy blanket and cozy book, The Spellshop.

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When Vibe Coding Goes Rogue: Debugging Your Own Brain

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Every developer has felt it: that inexplicable flow where code writes itself, where logic feels like jazz. Some might call

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John Gruber blogging at Daring Fireball about the updated Apple TV logo animation and sound:

The new one feels like a branding stroke unto itself. Sonically, it doesn’t evoke anything else. It just sounds rich and cool. Visually, with its rotating prism effect, it does evoke the classic six-color Apple logo.

The new one is great. The glowing background of the old logo actually bugged me from the very beginning. Something about it felt wrong, like design that uses too many gradients getting muddled instead of crisp and clear.

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Grindr Goes ‘AI-First’ as It Strives to Be an ‘Everything App for the Gay Guy’

After controlling shareholders failed to take Grindr private and controversies over data and the banning of the phrase “No Zionists,” Grindr’s CEO opens up about AI, privacy, and big expansion plans.