Cheating expert Sal Piacente, who’s got the perfect name, accent, demeanor, and face for someone who helps casinos catch c ...

Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras”…and now AI. It’s ...

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Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming. (I had to triple-check ...

Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels ...

One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to the port city of Nouadhibou on Africa’s Atlantic coast. The train is the bedrock of ...

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This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to ...

This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverberate in American society and politics today.

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingl ...

View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji, Hasui Kawase. I love this gorgeous woodblock print from Hasui Kawase, View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji. Hasui was a significant influence on Studio Ghibli & ...

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