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kottke.org (Feed)
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A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...
A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year, including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sister’s blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
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The Moving Image Archive
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate…
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It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”
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Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
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Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turns out to be really fascinating. For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patie…
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They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...
They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.
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Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...
Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods. “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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10 Things I Want from the Nikon Z7 III
While I don't know what the Nikon Z7 III will be like, I think that it's fun to think about it! It's been a very long time now since Nikon refreshed the Z7 lineup. And it's sort of in an odd place. I mean, why would someone buy one when the Z8 and Z9 all exist? Well, I think tha…
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A Photographer Slaps the Factory Farm Industry in the Face (NSFW)
In 2026, here in America we've been faced with some real food scares. Lettuce can sometimes be very contaminated -- and our government did nearly nothing about it. Then the problem was said to spread to blueberries, raspberries, and others. This, along with many things in our ec…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Looks like Siri came to Europe. As usual, with impeccable Apple animation quality. And two active text cursors #Apple #Siri #Animation #macOS #AppleNotes #Cursor
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The Camp Snap 2 Outsold the CS8 in 2026
In 2026 so far, the Camp Snap 2 seems to be the big winner for the company followed by the CS8 and the CSPro. I remember back in 2023 when I reviewed the first Camp Snap. I couldn't imagine that the company would turn into the surprising success that it is today -- but I'm glad…
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Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?
From 713 Magazine on Instagram: In a world where cultural knowledge has become its own form of social currency, knowing the right designers, listening to the right music, and recognizing the right references can make someone appear just as creative as the people actually pr…
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Canon Patent Points to an RF 70-200mm f2
A Canon 70-200mm f2 L series lens is probably going to be a reality in the near future. At least, that's what could happen according to a new patent. Canon has a plethora of fantastic lenses. From options like a 35mm to a 24-70mm to a 100-400mm, the company continues to add grea…
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“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...
“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia.
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John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...
John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right (redundant).
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of African-American artists in the 1920s and 30s. In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves threw a party in Duke Ellington’s apartment for some surviving members of the movement and recorded the whole thing. The foot…
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8 Nikon DSLRs Behind Major Award-Winning Photos
The Nikon DSLRs that have won awards are the Nikon D500, the D850, the D5, the D3, the D4s, the D600, the D3200, and the D750. It's crazy to think that one of those, the Nikon D3, is from 2007! Nikon DSLRs are among the best cameras in the world. They may not always be the first…
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“We should be more ambitious with the software we build”
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying [W]e should be more ambitious1 with the software we build There is, understandably, a lot of skepticism about projects like pgrust because there are so many low-quali…
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There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly, but some vari…
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Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod...
Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod simulator.
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Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and...
Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and Lego, including a forthcoming Lego set based on this fan-submitted entry.
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The American Divide on Empathy
PRRI’s 2026 American Values Survey reveals some, uh, interesting views on whether Americans think empathy is a good thing or not. Those respondents unaffiliated with a religion were much more inclined to think that empathy is “a foundational moral value that helps build a he…
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OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in...
OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in Taiwan as Typhoon Champi hit the island nation a few days ago. That’s gotta be close to 100 feet. Waves also inundated this 75-foot-tall lighthouse and a crane 164 feet tall, knocking it over.
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Techart LMEA9 Review Update: Negating Sony’s Award Winning Autofocus
Back in 2022, I reviewed the Techart LMEA9 adapter. This big, fat, ring is a matrimony of Leica M lenses and Sony's modern cameras with autofocus. Since its launch, there've been multiple firmware updates. To update the LMEA9, you have to be really careful to not lose the back c…
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Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in...
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.”
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Matt Webb is bunkering down, bracing for more LLM-driven...
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 😳
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