Mislav
@mislav.net
Ruby, JS, command line, open source, and cats. previously: GitHub
Super excited for the next stop-motion feature from the studio that brought us Coraline. Incredible work here
Trash Mob Minis@trashmobminis.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere’s a cleaner Wildwood promo pic, without all the text on it. It really gives you a sense of what the Landscapes department did. We hand made every asset you see here.
This whole piece is a deeply thoughtful journey well worth taking, but the section about Miyazaki and Spirited Away is particularly salient. frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...
Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
frankchimero.com
PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
“Something that might seem very crass and horrifying today [ads being fed to us by AI avatars of dead people] is not going to seem so farfetched or inappropriate once it becomes normalized and fairly common” Hear me out—how about we DON’T normalize it nor make it common www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization
The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.
npr.org
«Our fear of AI “damaging our brains” is actually a fear of our own laziness. The technology offers an easy out from the hard work of thinking, and we worry we'll take it.»
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · last yr.I wrote about "brain damage" from AI. Despite scary headlines, AI won't hurt you brain, but it can undermine your thinking and learning. Increasingly, however we are finding ways it can help us think and learn instead (some included prompt examples as well). www.oneusefulthing.org/p/against-br...
Mr Beast should make a real life version of the mansion from Blue Prince
Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
I’ve googled “sean baker” and Google rendered THIS on the screen; now I’m trying to decide whether my phone got hacked or if Google completely lost it
In a world of leafcutter ants, be the one who is inexplicably carrying a flower petal.
My most boomer trait is that I don’t like seeing those social media image posts that are just large text. Sorry but if it’s not a meme, it should have been a text post. What made you think you are deserving of larger font than everyone else
A web form is asking me yet again “Enter your name exactly as it is on your passport” so here we go, let’s see if a major airline has figured out how to store a character in a database in 2025
The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days
"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world" Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
What does climate change have to do with California's fires?
As Los Angeles battles catastrophic wildfires, experts say there are signs climate change is already reshaping fire seasons around the world.
abc.net.au
Does my fresh Ubuntu installation come with an advertisement in its login message to the terminal? The funny thing is, that URL is a 404
Never understood why people google for things like “{famous person} net worth”, spouse, height; but when I encounter a social media profile of a dog, I instantly pull up their profile page and rigorously scan it: what exact breed are they, how old, what is their weight? I need information
This, but as a giant Live, Laugh, Love-style poster to hang in my living room
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OpenAI scoring 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark is really impressive and certainly took me by surprise, but the cost and compute power thrown at the problem is just staggering. Machines solving novel problems seems to be still just an expensive parlor trick. arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...
OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub
OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.
arcprize.org
This, by @collinsworth.dev, was a great read. I’ve been writing vanilla JS for so long that I’ve fallen out of the loop when it comes to frameworks, and this essay serves not only as an overview of the space right now, but also as pointers for what to learn next. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiqua...
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
joshcollinsworth.com
Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
