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Federico Viticci:

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LunarWall is a simple shortcut that picks a random image from a curated set of 23 photos pulled from NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Flyby gallery and sets it as your wallpaper. That’s it! Each time you run it, you get a different photo. [T]he LunarWall shortcut fetches each image directly from NASA’s CDN and passes it to the ‘Set Wallpaper’ action, which is configured to automatically crop images to fit on mobile devices, blurs the wallpaper for the iOS/iPadOS Home Screen, and uses the original widescreen images at high resolutions on macOS.

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I’ve set this up and am loving it. 🌕

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What does IMAX mean? You’ll leave Todd Vazari’s post none the wiser, but somehow, more informed.

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…it’s super clear what “IMAX” means.

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They’ll don entry suits and point Integrity’s heat shield at Earth’s fast-approaching atmosphere. The friction and burn will surround them in a placenta of superheated plasma. When it nears 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the astronauts will lose contact with ground control. Parachutes will shoot out of the spacecraft to slow it down and stabilize it. According to NASA, the fabric will have been packed tight, to the density of oak wood.

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www.theatlantic.com/science/2…

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In writing another post (coming soon), this joke from the mid 90s came to mind. It starts …

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Gates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in purgatory, being sized up by St. Peter.

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“Well, Bill, I’m really confused on this call; I’m not sure where to send you. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows ‘95. I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. In your case; I’m going to let you decide whether you want to go to Heaven or Hell.”

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🔗 The Whole Story

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🔗 The Hacker News tarpit

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Well, I spent a Saturday last month vibe coding a Hacker News clone. Took about 3 hours, most of which was me arguing with the AI about CSS.

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😂😂😂 .. not just me then❓

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🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri | Macworld

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But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!

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🔗 ArtLung: Hello, human.json? ~ 07 Apr 2026

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I prefer to curate my own “algorithm.”

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🔗 Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

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Anthropic said, the model has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, and in many cases developed related exploits. Among them: a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-focused open source operating system, that had escaped detection for 27 years; another flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that had escaped detection in 5 million previous automated tests; and “several” vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which could be exploited to take complete control of a user’s machine.

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🔗 The Apocalypse Is Here - Michael Moore

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America, a country 250 years old, and the only nation sick and violent enough to have ever used a nuclear weapon, in partnership with Israel, a nation younger than Mick Jagger and Bugs Bunny, and the only nuclear armed nation in its region, are on the verge of wiping one of the oldest civilizations off the map.

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🔗 A quote from Giles Turnbull

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I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.

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💬 Giles Turnbull

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🔗 The cognitive impact of coding agents

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That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.

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💬 Simon Willison

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wait what, Meta just announced a new LLM - their first non OSS one(?)

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why does it actually seem good tho??

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Muse Spark is the first step on our scaling ladder and the first product of a ground-up overhaul of our AI efforts.

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I’m goin’ away to the country\nDon’t wander off too far\nI’m goin’ out my mind\nThrowin’ all my plans out the window\nDon’t wanna waste my life\nI’ll see you on the other side

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youtube.com/...

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\n Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.

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– Microsoft: Copilot AI is for ’entertainment purposes only,’ not ’important advice’ | Mashable\n

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This is from Microsoft’s own terms of service. They say it’s ”legacy language” that will change in an upcoming update but it’s still worth keeping in your mind whenever you use Copilot.

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Maya Silver, Climbing:

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Astronaut Christina Koch, currently onboard the Artemis II mission, is a climber. And not just a climber in passing, with rental shoes and little else. She’s a climber to her core: listing “rock and ice climbing” among her hobbies in her NASA profile. […]

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A deep dive into the wormhole of Koch’s climbing past reveals she has been lead climbing for at least a decade, enjoys the challenge of trad routes, and gets out ice climbing in Hyalite Canyon in Montana, where she once lived. She also backpacked throughWyoming’s Wind River Range, a premier climbing destination.

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🤘🧗‍♀️🚀

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How a brand is named, according to an anecdote from Ben Franklin…

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A friend was planning a shop sign for a new hat-making business:

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He composed it in these words, “John Thompson, hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money,” with a figure of a hat subjoined. But he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word “Hatter” tautologous, because followed by the words “makes hats,” which showed he was a hatter. It was struck out. The next observed that the word “makes” might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the...

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Claude Mythos Preview

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During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so. The vulnerabilities it finds are often subtle or difficult to detect. Many of them are ten or twenty years old, with the oldest we have found so far being a now-patched 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD—an operating system known primarily for its security.

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The exploits it constructs are not just run-of-the-mill stack-smashing exploits (though as we’ll show, it can do those...

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Greg McKeown —

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Dieter Rams, the legendary designer at Braun, worked from a simple belief: almost everything is noise. Very few things are essential.

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His job was to filter through that noise until he reached the essence.

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Early in his career, he was asked to help design a record player. At the time, the norm was to encase it in a heavy wooden lid or build it into a piece of living room furniture.

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Instead, Rams and his team removed the clutter. They designed a player with a clear plastic cover and nothing more.

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It was so different that people worried it might bankrupt the company.

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But it didn’t.

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Over...

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Only the thing for which you have struggled will last.

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– Yoruba Proverb

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Robert Birming:

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Maybe that’s the secret to true happiness, being thankful for what we have, here and now. We may have plans and ambitions, but we don’t let them overshadow the value of the present moment.

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After all, this is all we have.

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Via Techdirt…

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In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.

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Shocking that the “tough on crime president” is so soft. Honestly shocked white collar crime isn’t higher on that list.

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This is awesome. Four episodes. Amazingly produced and acted. And I personally know Lucifer.

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Experience the story of Jesus like never before in THE CHRIST, a four-part podcast masterpiece from the award-winning producers of Scrooge: A Christmas Carol.\nthechristpodcast.com

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Finished reading: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson 📚

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Another timely read and one I enjoyed the structure of. A detailed breakdown of one sentence. One sentence from a document we should probably focus on a bit more, instead of spending all our time on its successor.

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The declaration they were writing was intended to herald a new type of nation, one in which our rights are based on reason, not the dictates or dogma of religion.

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It was, and remains, a constant American struggle to make the phrase “all men are created equal” truly inclusive.

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I highlighted a lot in the Common...

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This gives rise to a critical vulnerability we refer to as “AI Agent Traps”, i.e. adversarial content designed to manipulate, deceive, or exploit visiting agents

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AI Agent Traps by Matija Franklin, Nenad Tomašev, Julian Jacobs, Joel Z. Leibo, Simon Osindero :: SSRN

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🔗 All the letters | Seth’s Blog

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But if you start out with the same letters as everyone else, don’t spend a lot of time admiring your letters. It’s the words that matter.

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Every writer has all of them. 26 in most Western languages. But no writer knows all the words.

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🔗 The Motley Fool asks: Where Will Apple Stock Be in 5 Years? – Asymco

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NB: The Motley Fraud is not a reliable source of anything but bad stock picking advice…

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Kimberly KG reflects on the latest from our president:

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And yet, he’s still in office. Still not being held accountable. Who are we?

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To keep our sanity, over the last year we’ve gone from outrage to mocking. Watch how late night TV makes fun of the ridiculous and dangerous things that Trump says. But surely with the Iran war this has turned a corner from the absurd and mostly bad just for our country to the potentially catastrophic.

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He must be removed from office as soon as possible. See also this video predicting exactly that from James Carville. 🇺🇸

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I am in awe that people still race Penny Farthings. Every year—including this past February 2026. On purpose. The thing has a giant front wheel, no real brakes, and if you hit a rough patch, you’re going headfirst over the bars — they actually call that a “header.” The World Championship course in Eastbourne is nearly 3 miles uphill. One gear. No brakes. Riders show up in full Victorian kit like it’s totally normal.

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The art of riding a high-wheeler is the art of falling gracefully.
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Luxembourg is now the second country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution! 🇱🇺✨ France was the first to do so, and I hope other countries will follow suit.

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This is a roadmap for how it should be everywhere—protecting freedom in the highest law so it’s “protected forever,” not just “legal for now.”

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As MP Marc Baum put it:

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“We see throughout the world that women’s rights are in the firing line. This vote in the chamber is historic. It’s also about what side of history we are on. It’s whether we are willing and capable to defend out democratic values.”

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A massive win for equality! 👏

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Louie Mantia’s got a good system for rating burgers on his new Burger Digest blog:

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One-star ★ burgers are the ones I’ll eat again, but only if I’m nearby. Two-star ★★ burgers are burgers I’ll come back to again and again. And three-star ★★★ burgers are the ones I will happily go out of my way for.

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For years, I’ve been partial toward the Netflix-esque 👎 / 👍 / 👍👍 system, but 0-3 stars works quite well too — especially when paired with Mantia’s qualifiers. Plus, zero stars plays better with the idea that if you don’t have something nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all.

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What Trump Did Today:

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This is both an absolute humiliation for the United States and, for now, the best possible outcome under the circumstances.

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So. Much. Winning.

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Well, it's been a really rainy and windy week. Now we have a few days reprieve before Tropical Cyclone Vaianu is forecast to hit.

This afternoon: sunshine and muggy heat. 😅

I managed a brief bike ride to enjoy the air and sun.

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MetService says the incoming Tropical Cyclone Vaianu could bring life-threatening winds to the North Island on Sunday.

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Via: 'Damaging, potentially life-threatening' Cyclone Vaianu increasingly likely to hit NZ | RNZ News.

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“Ở đời vui đạo hãy tùy duyên
\nKhi đói thì ăn, mệt ngủ yên
\nBáu vật sẵn nhà, sao phải kiếm?
\nGặp chuyện vô tư, chính là thiền.”

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– Kệ vân, Phật Hoàng Trần Nhân Tông

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🛠️ Simon Willison’s Tools: Cleanup Claude Code Paste

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From Simon Willison:

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Super-niche tool this. I sometimes copy prompts out of the Claude Code terminal app and they come out with a bunch of weird additional whitespace. This tool cleans that up.

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Niche it may be, but I’ve been wishing for something like this for a few weeks now (occasionally Claude will fall over and I need to start a new session with the same prompt). Tried it today and worked like a charm.

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Finished reading: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 📚

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🐻🐻🐻🐻🦘

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“you can’t serve God with a gun.”

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Long, but not bad.

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Tom Ley: ‘I Guess We’re Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone’

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It’s likely that this is the most proudly and nakedly evil statement ever made by a sitting U.S. President, and now we just have to sit around and see if he actually means it.

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If it wasn’t already apparent by the numerous other examples, this should make it crystal clear that our government is profoundly broken if nothing can be done about an elected official making a genocidal statement such as this. It’s sickening. 🇺🇸

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The Mythical Agent-Month – Codemanship’s Blog:

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The combinatorial explosion in lines of communication required to keep team members in sync applies whether those team members are human or AI.

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While true, as in humans, module and component design can buy some wiggle room here, however LLMs are not very effective drawing these boundaries alone. One reason is the lack of good training data for real world architecture but there could be more fundamental limits.

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gilest.org: AI and the human voice

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I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession.

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@cbcbooks What ever happened to the infamous Terry Punchout?🏒 In Tyler Hellard's novel, Adam has one final chance to save his sports writing career: a shot at a Sports Illustrated profile of the notorious hockey enforcer, Terry Punchout. To complicate matters, Terry is Adam's estranged father, and writing this piece requires Adam to return to his small, Nova Scotia hometown and dredge up old feelings and frustrations. Searching for Terry Punchout is being championed by hockey YouTuber and podcaster Steve \"Dangle\" Glynn. You can watch Canada Reads 2026 from April 13 to 16 on CBC. Head to cbcbooks.ca...
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