π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Photography,Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions π **What Youβll Learn**: TThe sleepy Swedish town of Γrebro is not where you might expect to find Del Lagrese Vulcano, the American photographer known for his subversive images depicting LGBTQ+ communities, drag kings and queer fetishes. However, this is where they have made their home for the past two decades, having moved in with their former partner, Matilda Wurm, an associate professor at the city's university. Now, their days are punctuated by walks around a nearby forest and trips to the local outdoor…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail Jul 13, 2026 Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail After I mentioned a Jurassic Park anecdote the other day, I watched the movie again. I must have seen it at least ten times now. This time, I researched every computer/software I spotted. EDIT: Just when I was putting the final touches on this article, I read the sad news that Sam Neill, who played paleontologist Alan Grant in JP, has passed away today. R.I.P Sam. Apple Powerbook 100 Surprisingly,…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture β
**What Youβll Learn**: Amber Fan, the 22-year-old protagonist of Kit Fan's heartfelt and emotional elegiac second novel, is ready to say goodbye. She said goodbye to her parents, who had booked a midnight flight from London to Hong Kong, to enjoy the sunset years after they sold the family restaurant in London's Chinatown. Goodbye to the old Chinatown they and their generation of hard-working Hong Kong immigrants represent, a Chinatown of Peking ducks, red lanterns, rude waiters, and sticky tables. She loves them the…
π Read this trending post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: For example, a recent report by the organization that monitors the PJM market, an area that encompasses all or part of 14 mid-Atlantic and Midwest states, concluded that expected power demand from data centers was a primary reason for $23 billion in customer price increases that will last until at least the end of 2028.Someone has to pay for substations and other electricity transmission equipment β but who, and how much? Joe Raedle/Getty Images The complexity of setting prices Setting a price for electricity is…
π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Sport films,Drama films,Film,Culture,Boxing,Sport,Disney+,Hulu β
**What Youβll Learn**: IIn the vein of Creed and Million Dollar Baby, They Fight makes another compelling argument for why boxing remains a timeless symbol of the human condition. This time it's Walt (Andre Holland) who's staring at the count of ten. Once a superstar on the Washington, D.C., boxing scene, Walt sees his promising career derailed by the city's drug trade. After spending a long period in prison, he is released on parole and is determined to reunite with his old…
π₯ Explore this trending post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Description: Insufficient inbound packet filtering in subnet routers and exit nodes What happened? In Tailscale versions earlier than 1.66.0, exit nodes, subnet routers, and app connectors, could allow inbound connections to other tailnet nodes from their local area network (LAN). This vulnerability only affects Linux exit nodes, subnet routers, and app connectors in tailnets where ACLs allow "src": "*", such as with default ACLs. Tailscale version 1.66.0 fixes the vulnerability. Additionally, a server-side update changes the interpretation of "src": "*" to mitigate the issue specifically…
π Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Drama films,Culture,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Technology β
**What Youβll Learn**: MIsaac's new arc is a weird, interesting, semi-sincere thing that I couldn't make friends with. It's a strange, shallow work about artificial intelligence that is itself exasperatingly artificial, a self-conscious docudrama hybrid. Isaacs licenses, or rather pretends to, live-action characters from his previous acclaimed documentaries to a fictional AI research lab called Artificial Verity at the fictional University of Southern England, so that the lab's software can be "trained" to create on-screen AI human characters.The research staff in…
π Explore this trending post from Hacker News π π **Category**: β
**What Youβll Learn**: A browser-based emulator for the Casio FX-870P (also sold as the VX-4) pocket computer, written in TypeScript and Vue 3. The FX-870P was a 1986 programmable calculator running a Hitachi HD61700 CPU at 921 kHz with a 96Γ64 pixel LCD, 83-key keyboard, serial port, and optional MD-120 floppy drive. This emulator is a full port of the original Delphi reference implementation to the web platform. The original emulator is available on the PISI and credit is given to the original author of the amazing suite…
β¨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Andrew Lloyd Webber,Musicals,Broadway,Culture,Stage,Theatre,US theater,New York,US news β
**What Youβll Learn**: Andrew Lloyd Webber has spoken out about the parlous state of Broadway in the wake of the early closure of his revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball."Broadway is more than just a street or a group of buildings. It is an idea β and one of the greatest cultural ideas America has ever given us," the composer wrote in a long-running X series on Tuesday morning.βThis idea is now in grave danger. I beg all who have…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: βΉback to projectsLeMario: Super Mario Bros trained on a JEPA ModelI wanted to reproduce LeWorldModel, a small Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) that learns world dynamics from pixels and actions. The original paper used it for reward-free planning in Push-T. But, since I loved video games, and at the same time wanted to learn more deeply about LeCun's JEPA architecture, I decided to write the whole architecture from scratch and train it on Super Mario Bros.The model passed every test I initially thought mattered. It…
