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Formula 1 (Audio)

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It eventually became the sport of rich guys who want to own teams to gallivant around Europe, losing colossal sums of money along the way.

TED

The Brilliance of Bridges and Roads That Repair Themselves | Mark Miodownik | TED

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All of our stuff, we've got so good at making it, but we're not so good at repairing it. We're not so good at taking care of it. And that is our next big task.

lbbonline.com

Larry Smith Became Margot Thomson’s Creative Hero with Six-Word Memoirs | LBBOnline

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If the idea doesn’t make sense in one line, it’s not ready. If it can’t survive without the shiny bits, it’s not strong enough. Larry’s work is a constant reminder: when the idea is clear, it lasts. A sharp thought can hold everything together.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Prediction markets want to be the news

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It's becoming increasingly untenable for prediction markets to sit in the middle of the tension between gambling on the news and trying to self-regulate such that they don't encourage insider trading.

TBPN

Oracle Rips, Ellison's Tech-First Vision, Fertilizer Crisis | Apoorv Agrawal, Owen Jennings, Amjad Masad, Shardul Shah, Mike Blue, Brian Taylor, Ivan Soto-Wright

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The market is demanding another AWS. And so, let's go through the top line numbers first.

The Business of Tech

AI’s Kiwi gatekeeper inside Microsoft

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if this can transform how architects are imagining buildings, imagine how we can transform every industry.

dwarkesh.com

I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

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Once the technical capacity for mass surveillance and political suppression exists, the only thing standing between us and an authoritarian surveillance state is the political expectation that this is not something we do here.

themarginalian.org

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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As a sculpture is shaped by what is chiseled off from the block of stone, so too are we shaped by what we lose — by choice, with all the complexities and difficulties of letting go, or by the scythe of chance, which takes away as impartially as it gives.

lennysnewsletter.com

From Figma to Claude Code and back | Gui Seiz & Alex Kern (Figma)

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The old linear waterfall workflow is gone. What replaces it is a fluid, bidirectional loop where design and code inform each other in real time.

wired.com

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future

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Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It's finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life.

ai-supremacy.com

What is Advanced Machine Intelligence or AMI Labs?

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AI agents need world models that allow them to predict the consequences of their actions before they take them. This is key to enabling agents that can plan, remember, and reason about complex observations.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

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I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. I had a great black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence. It's not doom.

longreads.com

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Julian Brave NoiseCat

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I grew up in a very Indian California, and it was under almost constant siege by a society habituated to extraction, displacement, and dispossession. The Native Bay Area and California that raised me was pocked with these invisible enclaves of Indian community: filled with love and holding on by a thread.

3quarksdaily.com

Why is mercury a liquid?

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Mercury's liquid state results almost entirely from relativistic effects, said Peter Schwerdtfeger, a quantum physicist at Massey University in New Zealand. Toward the bottom of the periodic table, the electrons in the heaviest elements experience such strong attraction to the atomic nucleus that they move close to the speed of light. At this point, they no longer obey the laws of classical physics, and the resulting quantum phenomena — known as relativistic effects — lead to surprising physical properties.

stratechery.com

Copilot Cowork, Anthropic’s Integration, Microsoft’s New Bundle

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Microsoft is seeking to commoditize its complements, but Anthropic has a point of integration of their own; it's good enough that Microsoft is making a new bundle on top of it.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

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I was afraid that if I wrote that book, I was going to be a black single mother for the rest of my life. But also, as I wrote this book, I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence, it's not doom.