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This terrifying story is not getting nearly enough attention @theguardian.com

After “starting the war against Iran on a lark”, Trump surrendered for “political convenience”: historian and commentator @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the stupidity of Trump’s war in the Gulf www.thenerve.news/p/timothy-sn...

If I had to pick between shadows and essences, I’d pick shadows. They’re better dancers. - Dean Young

This is what the end of MAGA might look like. Kennedy Center live feed: www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

Das ist keine Übung. Der Vormarsch neofaschistischer Ideen und Parteien ist real. Journalismus muss jetzt entscheiden, ob er Mut beweist: Wird er das antifaschistische Regelwerk von Grundgesetz und Pressekodex anwenden - oder nicht? Unser Vortrag auf der #rp26 ist jetzt online. Gerne sharen.

📷 Harry Gruyaert

Symposium: Texturen. 04.06.26 HfbK Hamburg - Vortrag: „Zur Kunst des Metaphernflechtens“ - Vortrag: „Wortspiel als Methode“ - Vortrag: „Es sieht so aus wie, es ist ungefähr so, oder so ähnlich.“ u.a. hfbk-hamburg.de/en/calendar/...

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

This reddit thread about "surreal old photos from nothing" is a great reminder that AI are interpolatable archives which form attractor basins of compressed "blurry JPGs of the web" which you can shove around and blend into each other. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

January 1976, Mallorca: A 14-meter fin #whale washes ashore at Colònia de Sant Pere. What follows: bureaucratic wrangling, chainsaws, explosives, and sticky ash on wardrobes. "The monster vanished, leaving only a black mark on the ground." en: riowang.studiolum.com/2025/12/sea-...

Do I Belong in Tech Anymore? “Why am I here? Does any of this work actually matter? And if I stop caring about the quality of my work… will anyone notice?” [ky.fyi]

Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.

January 1976, Mallorca: A 14-meter fin #whale washes ashore at Colònia de Sant Pere. What follows: bureaucratic wrangling, chainsaws, explosives, and sticky ash on wardrobes. "The monster vanished, leaving only a black mark on the ground." en: riowang.studiolum.com/2025/12/sea-...

Taylor Lorenz and Areeba Fatima discuss on YouTube how Iranian LEGO videos poke fun at the U.S. government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQfI...

Shortest talk ever on CSS layout. @kevinpowell.co at @smashingconf.com.

Melania's press conference about the Epstein Files Cartoon by @johnbuss.bsky.social

"Es ist eine Schande, wie laut am Dienstag die Stille in Europa war. Trumps Drohung war historisch und grausam." Kommentar von @cfahrenbach.bsky.social für @derstandard.at www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Very cool discussion of the use of color theories in industrial hygiene.

“The problem isn't that we'll decide to stop thinking. The problem is that we'll barely notice when we do.” —Minas Karamanis

First good day. Bar is open. ☁️ Ponton op’n Bulln. Hamburg, Elbe ⚓️

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Are you reluctant—and rightly so!—to use AI programming on a Mac? I found following: holtwick.de/en/blog/bx-s...

No more AI yolo on your Mac! 🛡️ AI tools like Claude Code can read, write and delete any file your user can access. bx-mac gives you a native macOS sandbox to restrict any command to just the folders it actually needs. github.com/holtwick/bx-mac #macOS #opensource #security #AI #Apple #mac #privacy

I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy

The article depicts DOGE as an experiment applying tech & gaming methods to governance. The result: a blurred line between public administration and digital siege. 🎮🏛️ #DOGE www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

In Deutschland landet mein neuer Newsletter heute so früh, weil es bei mir schon so spät ist. Hier auf der anderen Seite der Welt fahre ich Fahrstuhl mit dem Amoklauf der westlichen Männlichkeit.

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

Cool AF: a design archive of design archives, ℅ creative director/artist David Sizemore. Get lost in space exploration logos, chrome lettering, comix, flyers, matchbox art, more! archiveofarchives.com#design #art #DesignArchives #archives

Diane Arbus, Portraits/Selfportraits.

(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

‘Alison Bashford’s story is, on the one hand, just about a bit of the human body and, on the other, about the changing, contested and consequential practices through which we have sought to know ourselves and others.’ Steven Shapin on a new survey of the hand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

Do you by any chance know about Gordon Matta-Clark's "Fake Estates" artworks? They were tiny, often inaccessible plots of land he purchased in the 1970s, publicly auctioned by the city of New York for a price ranging between $25 & $75 each. More info here: socks-studio.com/2014/10/22/g...

Developing an application using Claude Code / Codex.

🦊 We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of “AI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

Against Claude’s advice, by the way

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This Is Real Life is at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until 9 May. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Sehr gutes Interview mit der Journalistin @solmazkhorsand.bsky.social mit einer sachlichen, nüchternen Einschätzung der Lage im Iran. kurier.at/politik/ausl...

Morning call, time to wake up. We’re already at war.

War is Peace

These thermal images of dozens of unauthorised mobile gas turbines powering an X-AI data centre in Mississippi really triggered me — there's something about the aesthetics that feels like a death cult. floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...