Sick of AI ads, a roofer hand-drew his own and was accused of being AI
How Anton from Southland Roof Repairs went viral for a terrible AI ad... that was never AI.
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Discover
Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topics
on loneliness
Loneliness is strange. I can be surrounded by everyone I love and adore, yet still feel alone. My soul yearns for a connection I have not found. I thought I had it when I was younger. I thought the person closest to me would be the one I could open my heart to completely. But they tell me they do…
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CAP Theorem and PACELC Explained in Plain English
You don't get to pick two. You get to pick which one you lose
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The Search Committee
Two big, long-in-the-making additions to this site today. Whee! The first is the addition of House committees and their transcripts. Committees can be really interesting. Even though this current Parliament certainly doesn't mark their heyday, they're still the most productive part of the House.…
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hot evil stupid politician in that fucking city that i hate. also surely people dont need a tw for…
morbimoth: hot evil stupid politician in that fucking city that i hate. also surely people dont need a tw for this
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Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces
Scherer's paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes. 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 Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist…
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How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen
700+ cats. 1900+ film stills. 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 ‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen appeared first on…
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ChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can solve their tech support problems
Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.
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Pillowfort closing in December
I’m terribly sorry to bring this news to you. This is, genuinely, the hardest decision I have ever made in my life, and I have put off doing it for as long as I could. While we did have many people reach out about the non-profit initiative, for which I am grateful, it became apparent that we…
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How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material
By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Birth of the Pearl (1901)
A "living picture" film staging Botticelli’s *Birth of Venus* with a twist.
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Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.
From The Public Domain Review
For modders
Hey ya’ll, Just wanted to share (again) that we have a handy dandy Google Sheet tracking Maxis and custom Global BHAVs, for any modders who might be interested in making custom globals. This sheet was born from @picknmixsims’s older offline version, which I suggested moving to an online format for…
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Ten things better now than 30 years ago
Fast-forwarding through a vintage Siskel & Ebert clip yesterdat, I noticed a commercial for General Foods International Coffees. Remember those? Before the corner Starbucks sold cappuccinos that taste like shoe boxes and before even McDonald’s offered nominal competition, the average Safeway sold…
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An inanimate object cannot pray.
shakespeares-gm: maidthings: loveofhumanity: My new startup Psimoni will contract out cloud computing to do this at 26k ourfathers/min for just $15 a month @heresylog thoughts? An inanimate object cannot pray.
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Testing pblog - GP
Testing pblog - GP Wednesday 4-19-23 This line has four pound signs in front of it They look like little waffles OH or they could be hashtags I’m attempting to make this work. Dont’ really know what I’m doing This line has four pound signs in front of it A new variable was added to the main pblog.sh…
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How to build a simple Magic-Link Sign-In with Next.js, Supabase, and Sendgrid
Supabase magic link with Next.js and SendGrid. Passwordless sign-in, from the email template to the confirm route.
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I have a lot of project stuff on my plate. My wife and I are writing a book. I’m rigging a dragon so…
I have a lot of project stuff on my plate. My wife and I are writing a book. I’m rigging a dragon so I can add to my portfolio, I’m making Wizards and Wagons. But last night my brain was like: You should write that one rom com. I was like, “uh, aren’t we already a little tied up? Also we already…
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You Should Go Vote, and I’m Not a Christian Nationalist for Saying So
This post is going to be really simple. The point of it is summed up in the title above. You should go vote, and it doesn’t make me a Christian Nationalist for saying so. I am a committed Baptist, which means that a major part of my confessional identity is religious liberty—the notion that “church…
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The resource nationalism view of politics
Brazil, which is oil-rich and holds the world's second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, is the only big country in South America not governed by a right-wing leader, with Lula largely seen as…
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A Road Trip To The Alps and Dolomites
About three years ago I watched a YouTube video of a couple of trail runners running the Alta Via 2 in the Dolomites. It’s a 100 mile route through the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy and as soon as I watched them I realised I had to go there. Not to run the route, but … Read more
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Nashville sprint through the tape, Chicago barely move & more | Matchday 32
The 'Yotes have left no doubt, and are on the verge of authoring the single most dominant season in league history
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Reasons for war vs excuses for war
The Schleswig Wars in the mid-19th century stemmed from nationalism rather than legal complexities. Denmark sought to centralize control over Schleswig-Holstein, home to many German speakers. This led to conflicts driven by both Danish and German nationalism, with superficial legal disputes serving…
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Josh Allen
Since most of our readers live on the western side of the Atlantic, they might not know what a WAG is. A WAG, a term created by that oh-so-illustrious British media, refers to Wives And Girlfriends of famous athletes. (Since we're talking about England, they are mostly attached to soccer players.)
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There is NO cache
The cost of a slow language is called cache. That's why [Easy CS](https://github.com/symplify/easy-coding-standard) runs only on files changed since the last time it ran, Rector and PHPStan run only on files affected through the dependency tree since last time, and Pest has…
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The Fourcast: The System is Failing
This came out from Channel 4 this afternoon: The interview happened on Thursday afternoon, and publication was delayed as a result of technical problems with Read the full article...
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Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki
Hi Folks, This is a short blog post to share with you my latest project: Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki. What’s this Wiki about? “This document represents current consensus around development best practices for Windows Phone 7. These best practices are collaboratively developed and…
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That's this stretch.
Walk on