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John Semley’s A Dying Art tracks restorative art—mortuary makeup and reconstruction—as it faces decline from cremation and corporate consolidation. At a Chicago NFDA showcase, underprepared but skilled undertakers rebuild damaged silicone heads, vying for esteem as demand for open-casket services shrinks and profitability pressures grow. Tracing the craft from early demisurgery to modern cosmetics, the piece profiles workers like Saldivar and Colquitt, whose Embody Grace seeks to sustain the art for the living and the dead.
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AI is reshaping software: developers increasingly rely on AI, shifting from implementation to orchestration. Two metrics define cost: token cost per feature and trust in AI-generated code. Trust is hard to measure; proven by incidents and bugs. A path forward is using maintained libraries, with in-house experts focusing on the core while outsourcing HOW to trusted libraries and vendors. Time bombs arise when code is unreadable; responsibility remains with developers. The post advocates delegating tokens to experts, and introduces GolemUI as a library aligned to ethos: AI-ready from day zero, forms-focused, legible to agents, backed by an MCP server.
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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth (IOED) is the tendency to overestimate how well we understand how things work, revealed only when we try to explain them. It has two parts: overconfident explanatory knowledge and the belief that explanations are deep, though real explanations expose shallow understanding. IOED is strongest for explanatory knowledge and even appears in children. A toilet example shows familiarity without insight into internal mechanisms. The bias affects design and decision-making by exposing gaps in lay explanations; the piece also cites sources and authors.
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Spacefilling curves, Sierpinski, map a region to a 1D sequence, so nearby points stay close along the curve. The SFC heuristic for TSP orders points by this curve, yielding tours about 25% longer than optimum on random sets but fast: O(n log n) to construct, O(log n) to update, no distance calculations, and parallelizable. It can be split into k vehicle routes by segmenting the curve. Applications include Meals-on-Wheels routing, Red Cross deliveries, SDI targeting, pen-plotter routing, and GIS. With 15,112 cities, SFC was about 34% longer than optimal but ran in under a second on a laptop.
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Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues is an iPhone accessibility feature to help reduce motion sickness in a moving vehicle. It displays animated dots along screen edges that reflect vehicle movement without interrupting content. Enable via Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Vehicle Motion Cues (Automatic) or toggle from Control Center. Customize appearance: Pattern (Regular or Dynamic), Color, and Visibility (Larger Dots or More Dots). Note: not for drivers; best when seated forward. You can set up a shortcut to quickly turn cues on or off.
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Netflix Eyeline Studios VP Kevin Baillie sued Netflix and Eyeline after being fired for a “Vulnerability-Trust exercise” confession at a January 2026 Sendero Ranch retreat, where he disclosed medically supervised ketamine treatment for depression. Netflix says ketamine therapy factored into termination. Baillie alleges the investigation targeted alcohol/profanity and claims an alcohol-fueled culture led by Eyeline CEO Jeff Shapiro, who reportedly hosted alcohol at events and kept a personal bar. He seeks a jury trial, compensatory and punitive damages, back wages, and emotional distress. The suit cites his April 2026 firing and denied severance up to a year.
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Emily Wilson argues Nolan’s The Odyssey is a visually spectacular but badly developed adaptation that sacrifices character depth and coherent moral logic for noise and action. While the source material offers time, memory and ethical complexity, the film delivers muddled motifs, expository dialogue, and inconsistent politics: violence is celebrated when against Trojans but condemned when against suitors; gods are sidelined; female characters are underwritten; Sinon becomes moral center; Odysseus is anxious and guilt-ridden rather than clever. The film's borrowings from Virgil and contemporary politics (sea peoples, Brexit) feel forced; Western Sahara shooting raises ethical concerns. It's a cinematic event.
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The piece argues US residential proxies fuel social media manipulation, spam, and cyber threats. They route others’ traffic through real home connections, often via free VPN apps, bundled proxy SDKs, or malware on devices. Blocking them is hard because they resemble legitimate users from US ISPs, and threat-intelligence firms benefit from knowing them. The author frames residential proxies as a national security threat: data theft, malware capable of recording, infrastructure for covert influence campaigns, botnets. He urges ISPs to detect suspicious activity and warn customers, and says other countries should adopt similar safeguards.
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EAT Your Greens (EYG) is a statically typed functional language designed for “makers”—end-user programmers who automate small, home-cooked software. It aims to remove deployment and runtime hassles by letting users describe problems rather than build full apps. EYG features sound type inference (types optional), inline hashed dependencies, and effect typing to reveal and control side effects. It is structurally typed (unlike Gleam’s nominal typing) and targets glue problems, personal dashboards, and automations. Progress is shared via a newsletter as the author experiments toward a better language.
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The Rise of Intelligence Ownership argues for “owning” AI by fine-tuning open-source models on proprietary task data using reinforcement learning against a scored workflow. This specialist approach beats frontier models on high-volume, verifiable tasks at a fraction of the cost. In a catalog-review case, a fine-tuned 9B open model reached 87.3% vs 76.9% for frontier and cost $0.50 per 1,000 listings vs $34–$172. The article outlines a playbook: start with frontier baselines, build a digital twin of the workflow, train with RL on scoring, and deploy internally. It cites Bridgewater, Harvey, Intercom deployments and promotes an audit.
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An author describes using open-source models via their own inference endpoint (opencode), and finding it surprisingly freeing. They value owning the data path, with no intermediaries, and feel a release as the connections to large providers are cut. In about five minutes they set up opencode against a Modal endpoint to try Kimi K3, choosing self-hosting over upgrading a Claude plan. The piece emphasizes the liberating feel of open, self-hosted models.
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Kimi K3, Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter flagship, is now available on Telnyx Inference API. It is the world's first open-source model in the 3-trillion-parameter class, with a 1M-token context window and native vision (text, images, video) in a single model. Features include multimodal reasoning, configurable reasoning effort (low/high/max), tool calling and JSON-schema constrained outputs, prompt caching, and OpenAI-compatible API access on Telnyx-owned GPUs. Pricing: cached input $0.27 per 1M tokens; input $2.70; output $13.50 per 1M tokens.
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Trylle is a next-gen Git platform for teams that unifies PRs, stacked branches, inline reviews, and GitHub Actions–compatible CI in one surface, plus releases, artifacts, and governance. It supports migrating repos from GitHub, standing reviews, and automations triggered by real repo events. The latest update adds shell completion for the nimbus command with optional hidden flags gated by NIMBUS_COMPLETE_HIDDEN (bash and zsh), plus build-time metadata, tests, and docs. Pricing: Free, Pro, Max.
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Yap is a free, open‑source macOS dictation tool from FrigadeHQ that performs on‑device transcription using Apple's Speech framework, with no cloud, API keys, or accounts. It sits in the menu bar and pastes transcriptions into the focused app via a hotkey (default ⌘⇧D), showing a live waveform and a local transcript history. It uses macOS SpeechAnalyzer/SFSpeechRecognizer, ships no model, and runs ~4 MB with ~60 MB RAM, no telemetry or network. Requires macOS 26+; unsandboxed, distributed outside the Mac App Store. MIT licensed. Install via Homebrew, DMG, or build from source.
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GPU Solutions provides an RTX 2080 Ti memory upgrade to 22 GB VRAM by replacing stock GDDR6 modules with higher-density 2 GB parts, plus VBIOS configuration, new thermal pads/paste, and benchmarking. Compatible with RTX 2080 Ti (TU102) on select PCBs; BIOS mods required; overclocking headroom may vary; severely damaged cards may be ineligible. Turnaround ~12 days; price depends on high-capacity memory availability; diagnostics/no-fix fee if upgrade cannot be completed. 90-day warranty on workmanship and replaced memory.
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Trevor Aleo argues the so-called literacy crisis is a category error, not a collapse of reading. He offers three theses: 1) literacy evolves with technology and social conditions; study it historically and materially, valuing multimodal civic literacy over test-based collapse narratives. 2) public discourse conflates basic literacy, the print-culture infrastructure, and disciplinary practices of literary studies; treat them as distinct and teach disciplinary literacy in schools. 3) the real threat is eroding the infrastructures that enable literacy—schools, libraries, publishing, funding—and we must defend public infrastructure while adapting to new literacies. A pedagogical framework follows.
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Returning astronauts from long ISS rotations report a persistent 'observer' sensation—feeling they are watching their lives from outside themselves—lasting weeks to months after splashdown. Flight surgeons treat it as a readjustment pattern rather than a disorder. Descriptions include being present yet detached, conversations feeling delayed, and home seeming staged. Explanations include neurology (reweighted sensory input after microgravity), psychology (constant self-monitoring), and the overview effect (Earth as a fragile whole). Isolation and confinement amplify the effect; sensory changes (taste, smell, tears) accompany it. Recovery lasts 45 days; Mars missions raise the stakes.
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A blog post on checking figure accessibility for color-blind readers with ImageJ. It shows how to simulate eight color-blind types to evaluate publication figures. In a paper’s Figure 1, panels A/C were problematic for Protanopia/Deuteranopia; panel D also an issue. The author argues red/green overlays alone aren’t enough and proposes showing separated channels in grayscale so all readers can see the data. After reworking, Panel D is clearer for all types, Panel A acceptable, and the DNA in overlays remains unclear for some types, but the separate channel helps; tubulin stays contrasted. Code largely from Henrik Persson; invites feedback.
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