Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in the 20 years since he wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma . “Looking at the landscape of food and farming today, I’m sorry to report that things haven’t changed all that much.”
Matt Webb is bunkering down , bracing for more LLM-driven security exploits. “Realistically, let’s say the internet gets infested with AI worms and we need to turn it off and on again, could we do it?” I had not heard of the air-gapped LLM communication 😳
"What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on."
"The racers do their first tenuous laps behind the pace car. The subterranean rumble of their engines grows."
The Great Circle Author on Her Omnivorous Habits, E-Reader Renaissance, and Unending Search for “The One.”
The sculptor and video artist talks mass culture, and Nathan Fielder as performance artist?
Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves - by Derek van Zoonen Read on Aeon
When things don’t turn out the way you pictured, how long does it take for you to move on? Reducing this window of disappointment unlocks the path to creativity and leadership. People who get over disappointment more quickly aren’t less excited about the project than the
Even now, in this age when the very reading of literature is endangered — or so the articles tell us — Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) retains a notable ability to pick up new admirers. But even though he may have a decent readership by the standards of French novelists who died
Stephen King has that rare, and spectacularly profitable, skill to suck you into his world and compel you to flip to the next page. And when you’re hooked, his words have the uncanny ability to simply unfold like a movie in your head. So it isn’t surprising that his books have
Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon d’Or . 100% the right choice — he had the best season of anyone. Like, almost ever.
Images rooted in queer and pop culture and national pride celebrate a progressive win at the polls and a step back for fascism.
A poignant short documentary about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back…
From Robert Rauschenberg and Josef Albers to Vija Celmins and Julie Mehretu, artists have tinkered outside their comfort zones at Gemini G.E.L.
From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain , which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)
Princeton houses a large digital collection of posters from Russia and Eastern Europe , almost 5000 total item spanning 101 years (1904-2004). This album on Flickr contains nearly 1500 Russian & Soviet posters from 1917-1991 — not sure how much overlap there is between the
“Perhaps the stadium is actually the replacement for the UN as a symbolic gathering point to conduct world politics,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.
“You Can See Everything” is toted as a documentary, but is Fielder a performance artist playing a documentarian?
Designed by artisans from Mestiz Studio in Mexico, the public altar welcomes passersby to make offerings to their loved ones.
"It only took five minutes," said the NYC mayor in a social media video. More museums and cultural institutions across the city serve as early voting sites.
Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family . I linked to Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.
The Portland-based artist's lush gradients are inspired by a love for oil painting. 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 Dreamy Digital Illustrations by
"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"
The tranquility of his views, the closeness of his tones, and the evenness of his light bespeak his continual wonderment at existence.
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness . “When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.”
According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth . On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06
"People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them."
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
California performance artist Bonnie Ora Sherk was a cultural trickster and proactive spoiler in the business of everyday life.
Simon Willison : “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded — I’ve reviewed almost none of the code, and it’s built in a language (TypeScript) that I’ve hardly used myself.” There’s a French steampunk version too.
Compelling edges, horizons, shadows, and disappearing paths prompt us to question whether we can truly comprehend what we see. 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.
This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum was great. Awesome to see these prints in person.