Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well

Some basic realities about why it's a terrible idea to put computing facilities in orbit

Software for setting up your own AI with document retrieval

A visualization of US census data about same-sex household with some clever processing to highlight neighborhoods

Open source project saves the Nest thermostats Google abandoned

Magazine article about the ground breaking queer art exhibition and catalog in Chicago

A reflection on the move to more privacy in locker rooms

Automatic downloader for YouTube videos, subscribe to channels

Video of the artist performing his miniature circus with sculpture and puppetry

Lovely catalog of many pieces by the artist

A class of generative art systems

An interesting grammar based generative art project. Author has posted lots of images to Reddit but they are hard to find now.

Interesting art generated by algorithms

A font modelled after Muni destination signs

Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury being amazing at the Tony awards

Various LLMs attempt to render a clock

Long discussion of the culture of food in China and the role the English scholar and author has played in its recognition

Lovely photo of a skydiver silhouetted against the sun

A Waymo driverless car killed a beloved cat in San Francisco. Remarkably thoughtful piece on the cultural impact and evaluation.

Journal of a very ambitious man who paddled the Darién Gap in a little rubber raft

Local landmark has some very interesting connections to early 20th century women's history, including some early Lesbian novels

Interesting cultural observation that those of us who grew up with early social media tend to write at length and are now being mistaken for ChatGPT

Interviews and descriptions of three people's intimate relationships with AIs.

A 2019 evergreen comic. Streaming services suck so much we're back to piracy.

Remarkable photo from the space station showing an electrical jet striking Earth

Chinese epic novel has quite rhythmic prose, link is to a fun short video performance

"The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to the bond between iPhone and its user, while keeping in mind that an Apple product is designed to be universal in aesthetic and versatile in use".

Funny page about an obsolete technology being deprecated. I think this parody?

Run LLM queries on a variety of different systems, with unified pricing and various options to choose how much you spend

The suave Frenchman from the Louvre heist photo turns out to be a 15 kid into dressing like a detective

A new open source Plex client, major change in that video watching ecosystem if this succeeds

Videos for many brilliant one minute songs

1970s electric music composition system by Xenakis