The Strange Saga of Faces of Death
“It scarred countless children—and allegedly left one dead. Many still believe it was all real. Some of it was.”
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“Working with agents feels much less like classic...
“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game .”
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years . “There’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”
Bright, Built World
Joseph Osmundson | The Los Angeles Review of Books | April 5, 2026 | 4,717 words
Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages
I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter ( Instagram , Threads ). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog ) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere . The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”.
‘Love Is a Sensation’ Spotlights the Boundless Creativity of L.V. Hull
The Mississippi Museum of Art exhibition highlights the Southern artist's artistic way of life. 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 ‘Love Is a
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
"LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity."
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot . “Compassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.”
Travelling at the speed of light
A mind-bending trip into the cosmos aboard a speculative (yet theoretically possible) spacecraft near the speed of light - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Jasper Johns Marks Time
John Yau takes on the art world giant, the man behind an archive of censored mass media, Wifredo Lam in New York, and more Epstein art world ties.
White-collar sweatshops
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? - by Dylan Gottlieb Read on Aeon
The Memory Maker
OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
Attention and effort
The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn’t at anyone else’s door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it was a tough gig, no one doubted that something was motivating this person enough to put at
Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More
No art enthusiast’s visit to the United Kingdom would be complete without days at the British Museum, the Tate, the V&A and the National Gallery. The fact that all those respected institutions are in London constitutes a plausible excuse never to stray outside the capital. But
9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971
More than a century after women’s suffrage in the United States, it’s not enough to bone up on the platforms of female primary candidates (though that’s an excellent start). A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment
Sea of Nightmares: My Son Died Climbing. Now, I Wrestle With ‘What If.’
"The questions, hypotheticals, and past haunting me as the father of Balin Miller, who fell to his death in October."
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service . “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”
A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification . It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse. Software becomes increasingly difficult and frustrating to use,
Jasper Johns Keeps Looking
He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time.
One Last Chance to See Dürer's Monumental Print in NYC
The "Triumphal Arch," one of the largest prints ever produced, will go into storage at the New York Public Library in the fall.
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking...
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking workshop with Werner Herzog (in the Azores). “Take your camera, get the shot, forgo storyboards, don’t overdo it and, above all else, do the doable.” But also: “What will the local priest think?”
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a...
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a collaborative album called (maybe?) Nine Inch Noize . Available April 17.
The ecard virus
Three of my friends got hacked this week. You get an ecard and click. It asks you to log in to your email. Boom, done. It hacks your email account, steals all of your contacts and then sends itself to the whole address book. And while they’re at it, they could be scraping and
Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says
New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.
Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso
This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It...
The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It had little to do with science or celestial bodies; instead it was a moment shared by four curious, caring humans , united in purpose, far from home.
Rare Wifredo Lam Portrait Lands in New York
The 1927 work is the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s collection.
The Sunshine Recorder
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d like to be similarly surprised, stop reading now and just watch the video . … … The sunshine recorder was invented in
Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture
Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan.
Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy...
Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy single-handedly building a “billion-dollar company” using AI: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI . Oopsie!
Colossal Members Have Funded 100 Projects in K-12 Classrooms through DonorsChoose
Colossal Members have hit an amazing milestone! 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 Colossal Members Have Funded 100 Projects in K-12 Classrooms
The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi...
The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the secretive inventor of Bitcoin, names cryptographer Adam Back as the likeliest suspect. John Carreyrou has won Pulitzers & helped expose the Theranos scam, but his evidence seems thin.
The Fantasy Baseball Ties That Bind
“How do fantasy sports leagues fit into the larger story of the male loneliness epidemic? You might be surprised.”