Clive Thompson wrote about coding with AI agents . “Software developers point out that coding has a unique quality: They can tether their A.I.s to reality, because they can demand the agents test the code to see if it runs correctly.”
A pair of hounds chase a hare across a snowy plain — will it get away? In Mario Kart terms, the dogs have the weight and max speed advantage while the hare is maxed out in acceleration, handling, and traction. Tags: dogs · video
“We took an ancient vice…put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong? ” I *hate* the extent to which gambling has infested everything; it’s not going to end well.
“I use my entire body when painting, so I need to align it with my mind beforehand.”
Ballot Guessr : “GeoGuessr for politics. See a Google Street View image, guess how the county voted in the 2024 presidential election.” (633/1000 on my first try…but I borked one of the guesses bc I forgot there was a time limit. 🙃)
Opening this month, this presentation puts the two photographers in direct conversation, exploring how both see their work as advocacy. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
AI Is Rewiring How the World’s Best Go Players Think . “Players now train to replicate AI’s moves as closely as they can rather than inventing their own, even when the machine’s thinking remains mysterious to them.”
A printable zine: 50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor . “32. Picking up trash, generally, is a good way to meet neighbors. People notice. 33. Winter: Shovel someone’s sidewalk. It’s also great cardio.”
Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Richard the Third begins with the eponymous character uttering the famous line “Now is the winter of our discontent.” It ends at the Battle of Bosworth Field, by which point his villainous schemes have come to ruin and his desertion by Lord Stanley
Unreasonable commitment is unreasonable. It happens before there’s a guarantee it will work. It’s out of proportion to what others think is standard. Unreasonable commitment is dedication, persistence, care, energy, connection and investment that doesn’t seem to make sense. You
"As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin."
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Germany’s Black Forest faces a future of transformation. So do the people who have lived there for centuries.
These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff.
Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself - by Sadiah Qureshi Read on Aeon
He also understood the process of organizing a plant to build a car. Scott Belsky knows how to use Photoshop and remembers what it was like to run a small business. And Sarah Jones knows exactly what is required to be on stage, alone, in a crowded theater. The world keeps
How to save those wet, damaged books? The question has to be asked. Above, you can watch a visual primer from the Syracuse University Libraries—people who know something about taking care of books. It contains a series of tips, some intuitive, some less so, that will give you a
Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books is underway! “Every March, the Tournament of Books is a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels.”
"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain."
This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture . “Some people are early adopters; others are late adopters. I’m simply a weirdly resistant one.”
There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs, checkered tablecloths, salad bar) in the US…but the company does nothing to promote them . “They are like wormholes in the chain restaurant galaxy, portals to the past found by serendipity.”
The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.
What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.
From There I Ruined It, a version of Toto’s Africa but the lyrics are a listing of every country in Africa. They should teach this in American middle schools, not even joking. See also Coach from Cheers singing Al-ban-i-a (a song that pops into my head every time I read or
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.
Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in Canada. Then he got laid off, had to leave the country, and now drives for Uber in Virginia , in a country he doesn’t recognize anymore after working for 28 years abroad.
Wow, KDO pal and explorer Ariel Waldman has her own show on PBS ! “ LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a science-driven docu-series revealing Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale…”