Amadigi di Gaula review โ€“ inflatables and appoggiaaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island | Opera

Amadigi di Gaula review โ€“ inflatables and appoggiaaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island | Opera

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,George Frideric Handel โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IDay 7 at Melissa Island. Melissa vaccinates Hottie Amadiji but he keeps stealing her. Oriana the bird turns Amadiji's head, but Dardano the serpent tries to go after her too and she becomes nauseous. It gives toxic energy to the relationship.The absurdity of Handel's magical operas can be a headache for directors. But not for Olivia Fox, whose Amadigi for Buxton festival takes the delicate four-handed character of the composer and replaces magic with TV illusions, witches for powerful…
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Learning a few things about running SQLite

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hello! Iโ€™ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about…
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โ€œI dreamed of a show where the audience would get hornyโ€: a Swedish doll play starring funny Barbie dolls | Dolls

โ€œI dreamed of a show where the audience would get hornyโ€: a Swedish doll play starring funny Barbie dolls | Dolls

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Puppetry,Jackie Collins,Theatre,Stage,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: eRick Holmstrom holds a naked, headless Ken doll. Most of the figure is as you would expect: lean muscles, smooth skin. But underneath, something is different. Between those hairless thighs is a small plastic rod nestled in a tuft of hair. โ€œIt's real poetry,โ€ says Holmstrom, director of Malmรถ Dockteater (which means "puppet theatre" in Swedish). Artist and puppeteer Kajsa Eriksson steps in Pubic โ€œHair,โ€ she explains.This doll isn't just a prop for the company's new show; He's one of…
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How design, data and AI shaped Googleโ€™s Noto 3D emoji

How design, data and AI shaped Googleโ€™s Noto 3D emoji

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The way we use emoji has changed. In the early days, we were literal: You sent a nail polish emoji (๐Ÿ’…) because you were, in fact, getting your nails polished.Today we lean on emoji to break down the barrier of our screens and inject a shrug, a wink or that highly specific โ€œitโ€™s fine but itโ€™s actually not fineโ€ subtext. Theyโ€™re the language within the language that keeps a blunt message from accidentally killing the vibe.On World Emoji Day, here's a closer look at…
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‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Books,Culture,Booksellers,Retail industry,Shops and shopping ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Matt Haig, bestselling author of books including Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, is opening a bookshop in Brighton.The writer plans to open the store, called Golden, by Christmas. It is located in the Seven Dials neighborhood, a part of the coastal city that currently does not have a library.โ€œMy belief, as someone who grew up in a town without a library, is that all communities should have a library, because libraries save civilization and make life interesting,โ€…
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Anatomy of a Misfeature ยท Olaf Alders

Anatomy of a Misfeature ยท Olaf Alders

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: "Mechanical egg timer" by Hustvedt is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 . Padded to a wider frame; this adaptation is likewise licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising โ€œeaster eggโ€ to users of Claude Code: 2.1.198 includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human. You essentially get a 60 second timer after Claude Code asks for input. If you miss the window, Claude Code helpfully does what it thinks…
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Chastity, gesture and enlarged pores: will women also love Nolan’s epic? | Odyssey

Chastity, gesture and enlarged pores: will women also love Nolan’s epic? | Odyssey

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: The Odyssey,Film,Culture,Christopher Nolan,Zendaya,Charlize Theron,Matt Damon,Samantha Morton ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: toA long time ago, almost as long ago as Homer wrote The Odyssey, I was a film critic for the Sunday Telegraph. People sometimes ask me how sexist the scene was at that time Bronze age In the mid-2000s, when male critics outnumbered female critics by about eight to one. Well, there was no sexism. It was really good and everyone was really nice.They were nice in Soho, anyway. Further, less than that. Especially some readers, when…
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The State of Open Source AI โ€” V1.0 ยท July 2026

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: ร— The opening letter Build with us. A letter from our CTO, Raffi Krikorian In New Zealand's far north, a Mฤori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo โ€” a language too small for any market โ€” under a license that keeps the data with its people. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, fine-tuned an open model on the language of finance and runs it today for hundreds of clients, on its own hardware, with no per-token meter running. Researchers in…
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Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies at 81 Movie

Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies at 81 Movie

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Ireland,Culture,Europe,World news,Coronation Street,Soap opera,Drama,Television,Television & radio,Comedy films,Comedy ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish woman to win an Oscar for My Left Foot, has died at the age of 81. Her agent, Phil Belfield, told the BBC in a statement: โ€œWe will never see her like her again and the world is made less and less important by missing her... It was an honor to know, love and work with her, and she will always have a place in my heart and in…
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AI meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s zkVM

AI meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s zkVM

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This is the second post in the series. In case you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL, it has more context on why we run these experiments and how our pipeline is set up. In this post, we pointed zkao, our AI auditor, at OpenVM's zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug in its guest library openvm-pairing that lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. Note that this is not a soundness bug in the zkVM's proving system itself; it…
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