The 250th birthday of the United States is coming up and I know many of us are having a tough time feeling celebratory because *waves hands around at everything* . To mark the occasion in a decidedly non-jingoistic manner, historian Heather Cox Richardson is producing a series
Tenderly Tracking My Husband . “Knowing when to step in and tell a loved one with [Alzheimer’s] that they can no longer do something because it’s too risky is a game of chance we caregivers hate to play.” Lovely & heartbreaking.
"An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction."
Great title for a book: Fascist Yoga . “Ever since, the world of yoga has been full of grifters, occultists and white supremacists, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise.”
"Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences."
Hugh Broughton Architects incorporates designs by artist and illustrator James Lambert, who interprets the distinctive character of each location. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as
Pinterest Has Become Unusable . “When I started painting again in January, I went back to Pinterest and found it overrun with AI slop. It’s continued to get worse and worse, and it’s now basically unusable.”
The day after ending his run on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert hosted a show called Only in Monroe on a Michigan public access channel . His musical director for the show was Jack White, nestled onstage between a boombox and a reel-to-reel recorder. His guests included Byron
An unusual new-to-me animal: the aardwolf . It’s a hyena but it eats insects like an aardvark . The cubs are incredibly cute .
As bees build their hive, ceramics are mended in the spirit of a time-honored Japanese craft tradition. 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 Ava Roth
Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning . “Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.”
"I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for Pine Island, which has, like many rural Midwestern towns, become an unlikely microcosm of the AI
Nature and magic come alive in tiny watercolor scenes. 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 Vibrant Miniature Dioramas by Shannon Taylor Burst from
The assemblage artist donates her doll collection to the New York Historical, and we walk you through strong performance art at the Venice Biennale.
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses - by Alvina Hoffmann Read on Aeon
On finding joy in the writing process, embracing friction, and developing your voice.
Robert Johnson died at just 27 years old, some say as a consequence of selling his soul to the devil at a crossroads. But before his time came, he managed to record 29 songs, a scant body of work that nevertheless secured his artistic immortality as one of the most influential
Moore’s Law was stated 60 years ago, but it only became a law once its predictions came true. The reason that your laptop doesn’t cost as much as your house is that computer chips get relentlessly cheaper and more powerful. Just as Gordon Moore predicted. But perhaps it wasn’t
Even if you don’t know the myth by name, you know the story. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus, King of Corinth, was punished “for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, repeating this