Early voting jumps
Evan Reynolds and Christine Zhang, for the New York Times, have quick tabulations for early midterm voting. Turnout is up by a lot compared to the last midterm election.
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Why agents take unexpected routes
For the New York Times, Raj Saha and Blacki Migliozzi used mazes to demonstrate how AI models are trained and how agents complete tasks in unexpected ways. Some argue the double-edged sword: At the…
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Audubon Florida’s Center for Birds of Prey and State Senator Jen Bradley…
The bird is the 823rd eagle rehabilitated and released by the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey since its founding in 1979.
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palace skateboards and nike's manor place fc collection brings back the early-’00s football kit
The anniversary capsule toasts a year of skating, football and art at the brands’ South London hub.
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snøhetta and barth create six spaces for exploration at le rosey boarding school
barth realizes snøhetta’s vision for le rosey boarding school through custom interiors that invite students to explore, reflect and collaborate.
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Cost of electricity from investor-owned vs. public
If your electricity provider is an investor-owned company, it’s likely you’re paying more than someone with a public provider. For Bloomberg Green, Michelle Ma and Nadja Popovich highli…
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What happens to math going forward
Terence Tao has become the unofficial spokesperson for the future of mathematics. Elisabeth Bumiller, for the New York Times, reports on the soured relationship between Tao and OpenAI: OpenAI’s rel…
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Be Nice to Your Chatbot
It couldn’t hurt, and it might help
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People holding up the internet
In reference to the xkcd comic that illustrates the internet as a stack of blocks propped up by a small project, sheets.works shows development history of real open source projects that our devices…
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Calculation volumes for AI training
More big numbers coming in. For NYT’s the Upshot, Aatish Bhatia demonstrates the millions of trillions (octillions!) of calculations required for training AI. During its training, the A.I. is…
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Scale of proposed billionaire wealth tax in California
There is a proposition on the California ballot this year to impose a one-time tax for billionaires. The result would be a 5% tax on their net worth, which includes investments. For New York Times …
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‘the body is my canvas, tool, and medium’: lucy mcrae discusses identity…
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why cleopatra, lawrence of arabia, ben-hur & other hollywood classics still look so good
Cleopatra cost Twentieth Century Fox $44 million, by the studio's own estimate. That may sound like the budget of one of those genre pictures that winds up going straight to streaming, but if we convert those 1963 dollars into current ones, it comes out to $480 million.
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Beliefs in life after death
Is there something that comes after we die? For the Pudding, Alvin Chang imagined what it would be like if you walked into a room and could see everyone’s answer. A dot plot provides a map of…
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Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence
A new release from Louisiana Channel interviews three artists and two writers about Remedios Varo's influence.
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Dario Amodei on SNL Weekend Update discussing doom
Jane Wickline impersonated Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update.
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apple unveils ‘what holds us’ photography exhibition, shot on iphone 18 pro
Featuring work by Jack Davison, Alex Prager, and Jimmy Chin.
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When the economy seems good in numbers but feels bad in reality
When you think about how the economy is doing these days, it can seem bad when you know people out of work and wages are not keeping up with inflation. The economy can seem good though when the une…
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Swatching My 2026 SFPS Ink Haul
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Hotter days and more of them
Summer 2026 is likely the hottest summer on record since 1895. The NYT editorial board describes the warming days and warns of what is to come. In many parts of the country, extreme heat affects mu…
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Outside In and Nature of Things Rethink Beauty Retail in NYC
Beauty, fragrance, a cafe, and a hidden garden come together in one sensory space
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Observable notebooks get a rewrite
Observable, known for visualization-centric notebooks to share code, restarted fresh to adjust for this new chapter in making things with computers. We obviously cannot pretend that AI does not exi…
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✚ Making a bunch of line charts
This week, I describe the many small choices one must make while working on a set of charts.
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Harley-Davidson’s $3,299 Turntable Is Shaped Like Their Logo
The moment you see the Pro-Ject x Harley-Davidson Turntable, you know exactly what it is, and you know exactly who it is for. That kind of immediate clarity is rare in product design, and it is worth paying attention to. Pro-Ject Audio has built a reputation for doing collaborations the right way. The Austrian turntable
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Steep rise in electric vehicle sales
For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad Plumer report on the rise in electric vehicle registrations around the world. The snippet of a chart above shows the change between 2020 and 2025 w…
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IKEA complexity index
Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA complexity index by Greg Technology is a catalog of 20,000 products ranked by how long they take to build. When you get a PAX corner wardrobe, prepare for a manual in 16 …
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Tariff avoidance in solar manufacturing from China
To avoid heavy solar tariffs, China allegedly moved manufacturing to other countries. When the U.S. caught a whiff, they’d impose new rules to the other countries, and imports would plummet, …
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Emoji usage and age generations
For NYT’s the Upshot, Eve Washington, Larry Buchanan, and Claire Cain Miller examined the most commonly used emojis and how it changes by generation. 😭 reached the top by leapfrogging 🤣 and 😂…
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✚ Set expectations and verify
This week, we talk flimsy results and how to work on things that build trust over content.
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The Daily Heller: 30 Years of Sign Trawling
'Book the Trip' is a travelogue of signs through 700 photographs of rare and one-of-a-kind letterforms.
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Google makes it easy to generate fake satellite imagery
Google’s image generation model Nano Banana is now a few clicks away in Google Earth, so you can use satellite views as your canvas and imagine a community, city, and world how you want it. I…
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carolina laudon
Swedish typographer and type designer Carolina Laudon is the first woman president of the ATypI. Ksenya Samarskaya caught up with her after last year’s conference to discuss her role in, and vision for the organization.
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Application error probably caused tears in Reflecting Pool
The Washington Post used satellite imagery, photos, and videos from when the blue paint was applied to the Reflecting Pool to figure out what caused the tears in the lining. Of the identified locat…
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Mapping what is close to you
When deciding where to live, most people want to know what’s nearby so you don’t have to drive an hour to get to the nearest grocery store or school. Close is a mapping tool that shows …
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✚ Ideas, data, and graphics
This week, I provide an update on my own process from start to finish, in 2026.
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Geography guessing game, so you can see how bad you are at locations
MapTap is a daily guessing game for geography. You get a location in the world, you mark where you think that location is, and you see how close you are. The closer the guess to the actual location…
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American ancestry map
For dumb reasons, there are people in power who like to put down immigrants. However, for most people in the United States, you don’t have to look back very far to see where we came from. For…
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Interpolated time-lapse of Aurora Australis, from space
Seán Doran stringed together time-lapse photos from the International Space Station and interpolated the frames in between to make a smooth high-resolution video. 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse seq…
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