The Climate Change Paradox . “Earth’s climate is chaotic and volatile. Climate change is simple and predictable. How can both be true?” Complexity & chaos theory are so interesting. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Siren — the political satire newspaper led by artists Coco Fusco, Noah Fischer, and Pablo Helguera — is back with its third issue. This edition examines the many facets of the ongoing authoritarian assault on the nation: ICE raids, massive budget cuts, the dismantling of
Now in its 16th year, the international competition focuses on both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. 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 The 2025
On the latest wave of AI/LLM tools . “It is a transition from working with a co-intelligence to working with a wizard. Magic gets done, but we don’t always know what to do with the results.”
Here’s a thing I didn’t know existed until the other day: credit-card sized trackers that you put into your wallet (or bag) that can be located with Apple Find My. Some come with long-life batteries and others are rechargeable. Some can play a sound when lost. This seems pretty
“Trump told voters that they could indulge their resentments and still walk away richer and more prosperous. But they can’t . To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion…”
Early next year, Sesame Street is making hundreds of full episodes available on YouTube . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ..."
Two portals to the Monte Sant’Angelo station in Naples explore what it means to go underground. 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 Descend into the
"Six million antelope storm through a pocket of Africa that’s nearly impossible to get to."
Remember the collection of classic airline logos I linked to a few years ago? The folks at 08 Left have taken some of those old logos and put them on hats, t-shirts, and hoodies . Tags: design · fashion · flying 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
New from Neal Agarwal: a series of increasingly ridiculous and difficult captchas . I burst out laughing at the vegetables one. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Scandal rocks international stone skipping contest . “The would-be cheaters admitted to the scheme by a show of hands and apologized for their misdeeds after the judges raised their suspicions.” Aww, so wholesome? 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"Life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is."
‘I didn’t think I’d get the job!’ How the cheery steeplejack Fred Dibnah dismantled an industrial chimney one brick at a time - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
If you’re taking the wrong medication, that’s not going to help. It doesn’t matter how fast you’re going if you’re headed in the wrong direction.
We may take it for granted that the earliest writing systems developed with the Sumerians around 3400 B.C.E. The archaeological evidence so far supports the theory. But it may also be possible that the earliest writing systems predate 5000-year-old cuneiform tablets by several
At the moment, there’s no better way to see anything in space than through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope. Previously featured here on Open Culture, that ten-billion-dollar successor to the Hubble Space Telescope can see unprecedentedly far out into space, which, in
“Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century.” Derek Guy: “The 1970s is often written off as the ‘decade that taste forgot.’ But Redford shows how to do it well…” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Los Angeles gallery’s vast archive will be donated to the Huntington library.
The late painter was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but she had none of the hubris of its male artists. For her, painting was not about an experience, it was an experience.
The fall art season starts with a bang, with Man Ray at The Met, understated gems like Lisa Corinne Davis at Miles McEnery, and more.
Lisa Corinne Davis has stretched the possibilities of painting into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams.
From film to painting to sculpture to chess, the Surrealist was an artist-inventor, tinkering away at light and objects and having a good laugh all the while.
Christian Marclay debuted his 24-hour film The Clock 15 years ago. The film is made up of thousands of clips from movies and TV shows that show timepieces or otherwise make reference to the time of day. I’ve seen chunks of it in a few museums & galleries and it’s wonderful.
Activists behind the action at the UK royal residence said they want to “make sure Epstein haunts him everywhere he goes.”
A group of international scientists drew parallels between the species’ distinctive shell and the work of the Spanish artist.
The group collaborated with Lucas Zanotto, Will Anderson, and Blender Studio. 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 Interact with OK Go’s Innovative
"As reading declines and self-censorship grows, bookshops are shuttering in the city once hailed as the Arab world’s publishing capital."
A McSweeney’s list that’s not that funny: How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left .
Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause’ . “By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.”
The famous 19th-century photograph of a formerly enslaved man is reproduced at the Fort Pulaski National Monument, a Civil War battle site in Georgia.
How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived . “‘The goal of climate modeling is really to build a fake version of the Earth,’ a coarse-grained copy of the planet that’s stripped down to ‘the processes we think are relevant.’” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →