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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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At The Web You Want event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the whole thing: Accessibility is resistance! She makes the very good point that generative tools are a necessary accessibility recourse when humans have failed to do…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The New Lomography Half-Frame Camera Has a Strange Feature
Today, Lomography announced two variants of a brand new camera: it's called the Half-frame simple use reloadable film camera. This follows on some of the success that the Pentax 17 and the Kodak Ektar H35 have. In fact, the medium is so popular that we even wrote a recommended l…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What...
Legibility of effort in the LLM age. “What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance whether something took a human meaningful work.”
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Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal
These have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in the world, one a Barcelona legend and another a Barca legend in the making. Both came up throu…
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Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...
Ted Gioia: “Works like the Odyssey are ritualistic and trance-inducing. They are propelled by music and driven by rhythm. They cross a border beyond literature, and enter something more transcendent and metaphysical.”
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Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...
Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs: “using AI as a research assistant, why he keeps a tech-free zone in the mornings for deep thinking, and why he’s resisting the pull of the ‘mainlining’ AI era”.
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We’re Taking a Stand Against AI. Join Us
We're here to put art lovers in front of real photographers. No algorithms. No generative AI. Just humans. And today, we are announcing the 5 Boro Foto Fest: A space for real photographers to sell their printed art in a world of algorithms and too many screens. And best of all,…
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The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...
The Moist Towelette Online Museum. Live moist and prosper. 🖖💦
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The Types of People to Keep Around
Molly Burford, author of Moments to Hold Close, writes list poetry (is that a thing?) about the kinds of people that you want in your life. From Types Of People You Need To Hang On To: The friend who helps you clean your room. Those who are kind to those who can do nothing for…
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Viltrox 26mm F2.8 EVO Review: It Turned My Nikon Z7 II Into an EDC Camera
The Viltrox 26mm F2.8 EVO pancake lens provides simplicity and flexibility that can transform your bulkiest camera into an everyday carry camera.
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Scraplab (Feed)
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Satellite Eyes 2.0
Back in 2012, which can't be more than 5 or 6 years ago, I made an app called Satellite Eyes. It sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. It's quite popular - lots of people tell me it's the first thing they install on a new machine, which is l…
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An inconvenient talk
For the last few years I’ve been helping run Edinburgh Gravel Cycling Club, a large ish community for folks into gravel cycling. It’s been a lot of fun, very rewarding and I’ve made many, many wonderful friends through it. I was asked if I’d like speak about it at a mon…
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Lego Set Checklist
If you have too much Lego, then you might want to sell some of it so it can go to a better home. But if you have it all jumbled up in some massive boxes, then you’ve got a long few days ahead of you. By you, I mean my children. To make this a tiny bit easier, I got Claude (th…
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100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online. “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you would extend offline to those you meet on these virtual streets.”
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Are Your Lenses Not Weather Sealed? You Need This
Nikon tends to be better than most of the other brands about weather resistance; except for maybe Panasonic and Tamron. That's why we created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with Full Frame Insurance. Dust affects your camera and lens performance more than you th…
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Tamron 12-20mm F2.8 Review: The Amazing Light and Nimble Astro Photography Lens
The Tarmon 12-20mm F2.8 is not only the lightest ultra-wide zoom I've tested in a while, it's also ushering in a new design language for Tamron.
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Flashpoint XPLOR 400 Pro II Strobe – An Unmissable Upgrade
With their first gen line of strobes, Flashpoint (the US branded lineup of Godox) have established themselves as a company with affordable yet reliable speedlights and off-camera lighting accessories. They’ve recently started refreshing their lineup with next-generation releas…
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Waxy.org (Feed)
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How Evil Trout aims to turn a cult free game into a Steam hit again
The Incident at Galley House, the fully-voiced graphical adaption of the brilliant Type Help, is out now #
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The Shape of Apps
Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons #
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Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye’s isolated vocals on I Heard It Through The Grapevine. The man has pipes. [This is a vintage post originally from Sep 2014.] Tags: Marvin Gaye · music · video
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Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...
Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.
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The Best Third-Party Portrait Lens Launched Over a Decade Ago
Portrait photographers have some lovely lenses that one can choose from. From Canon to Sony, each company has introduced a fantastic portrait lens that meets the demands of professional photographers. However, there is one model that has stood the test of time, one that is perfe…
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Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...
Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women Rebuilt It. “It’s not a pretty picture for climate communication and climate journalism right now.” You can check out the new site at climate.us.
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A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music...
A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music generated by a tennis rally at Wimbledon. “Duplicating the players and then using the rhythm of the multiple tennis balls as they cross the pink line to drive the rhythm of the piece.”
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Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels...
Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels placed in the otherwise unused space between railroad tracks.
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The Photographer That’s Making You Look Twice at a Frame (NSFW)
Looking at the work of photographer Igor Brekhov, it's easy to see the power of humanity in an image over the world that capitalistic generative AI that is being pushed on us. "My signature is what I call 'conflict in the frame': the picture looks peaceful until you notice what…
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Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda
Philip Summers hand-draws game guides for old school video games. He’s done guides for games like Mega Man, Castlevania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), and Metroid. But my favorite one is The Legend of Zelda game guide because Zelda was (and still is, tbh…
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The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...
The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project, tracing & visualizing 10,350 LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US since 2003. Anti-trans bills have dominated since ~2014.
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Oneday
That's all I have to prep for a month on the road. Tomorrow is Baltimore. After that, North Carolina. After that, California. Back in Bloomington in mid-August. Ground down Says here [](CKWX Vancouver,)that Rogers Sports & Media has closed six of its radio stations. One of those…
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On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American...
On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American English during the World Cup. “That’s not a foul, just a coming together.”
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Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from...
Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.
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If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...
If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s. “You are at the dentist’s office. No one has seen or heard from the dentist in months, but he’s been making stock trades.”
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The Most Influential 90s Music Videos for Black and White Photographers
Are the 90s making a comeback? Apparently millennials are whistfully hearkening back to those good old days, when a Clinton was president and the tech bubble hadn't burst. And if you lived your life through music videos, you know that there were plenty of videos shot in black-an…
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