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What a blue wave could actually do

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. This was already a record-breaking election, even before the polls opened today. Campaigns and their allies poured record sums into political advertising. A near-record number of lawmakers are retiring or running for a different […]

Vox · EN

Edward Hopper bristled at the “lonely” label: “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint”

Edward Hopper bristled at the “lonely” label: “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint”

Arts & Letters Daily · EN

Annie Ernaux: “Alfred Nobel’s intentions were noble. But everything that follows — the mountains of mail, the endless requests — is a burden”

Annie Ernaux: “Alfred Nobel’s intentions were noble. But everything that follows — the mountains of mail, the endless requests — is a burden”

Arts & Letters Daily · EN

Sylvia Plath’s verbal calisthenics. Nothing was off limits, including sonnets, villanelles, poems in terza rima, and even Audenesque quatrains

Sylvia Plath’s verbal calisthenics. Nothing was off limits, including sonnets, villanelles, poems in terza rima, and even Audenesque quatrains

Arts & Letters Daily · EN

Haley Stevens and Her Friends Explain What the Hell Just Happened

During a mystifying election week in Michigan, the congresswoman reflects on her endorsement switch, people thinking she’s in “some sort of cahoot” with Republicans, and her fiancé—“the amazing and the one and only Jason Turkish.”

The New Yorker · EN

Six Books You Should Read Twice

These titles’ twists and turns demand you take a second look.

The Atlantic · EN

Trump Repeats a Centuries-Old Mistake

This isn’t the first time a president has made the midterm elections all about himself.

The Atlantic · EN

What Is It About Jon Ossoff?

The candidate’s charisma is undeniable—but 2028 is still a long way off.

The Atlantic · EN

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Behance Featured · EN

The Preacher Who Patented Flexible Film in 1898 and Died Before Kodak Paid $5 Million for It

Hannibal Goodwin's application for a photographic pellicle reached the Patent Office on May 2, 1887, and stayed there for eleven years and four months while a succession of five examiners rejected it. George Eastman's chemist filed his own flexible film application on April 9, 1889, and had a granted patent eight months later. By the time Goodwin's US Patent 610,861 issued on September 13, 1898, Kodak had been selling transparent roll film to the public for nine years. [ Read More ]

Fstoppers · EN

Nextorage Debuts New 1TB SD Card for Pro Video Work

Nextorage Corporation has announced the NX-F2AE Series, a trio of new UHS-II SDXC memory cards that promise high-end speed and reliability for demanding video workflows. [ Read More ]

PetaPixel · EN

Adobe Is Bringing Licensed Music to Premiere Mobile

Adobe Premiere mobile, which recently launched on Android after releasing last year on iOS, will soon include music from Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG). [ Read More ]

PetaPixel · EN

Where to Find the Small Worlds Most Photographers Walk Past

Peter Baumgarten was looking for centimeter-tall mushrooms when he spotted a cluster of orange caps on a rotting log. A few warm, rainy days had encouraged mushrooms to emerge in Canada’s McLean’s Park, a forest on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island where he regularly walks his dog. At six feet two inches tall, Baumgarten could easily walk past mushrooms that small if he weren’t specifically looking for them. [ Read More ]

PetaPixel · EN

How Fincher and Tarantino Carved Down a 230-Page Script for ‘Cliff Booth’

My most anticipated movie of the year is easily the David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino collaboration, The Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth . It's a pseudo-sequel to Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood , and it brings back Brad Pitt's stuntman character for a mystery in 70s Los Angeles that's sure to be one of the most talked-about movies in a while. Everything from Netflix paying $20 million for the script , to the limited IMAX release, to Tarantino letting someone else touch his work has been a fascinating study in auteurism . Let's dive in. How Fincher and Tarantino Collaborated When Taran

Nofilmschool · EN

The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Search for Truth, and the Ideal Environment for Breakthroughs

"Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!"

Brain Pickings · EN

“Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a...

“Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a huge percentage of it to machine learning algorithms 10 years ago, and we are living in an intensely different and I think worse world because of it.” Was 2016 a sneaky inflection point?

Kottke · EN

Do you think you could write down the names of 3000...

Do you think you could write down the names of 3000 people? “As part of a competition with a few friends, I attempted the very dumb challenge of trying to write the names of 3,000 real people in one sitting. It took 7 hours, but I did it.”

Kottke · EN

How Human Civilization Began

In a recent video , Kurzgesagt explores what we know about the first human civilizations that formed some 12,000 years ago and how they led to the first cities and the invention of writing. What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest is like dark matter, invisible to us. We can’t see it, and we can only see the effects of its presence. But thanks to new techniques for DNA sequencing, dating ancient detritus, mathematical models, and aerial and lidar archaeology, we are now able to get a faint idea of what this world might have looked and felt like. O

Kottke · EN

SURROUND Presents: Why Good Product Design Requires More Than a Good Idea

In a new podcast episode, Souvik Paul and Sinclair Smith discuss how entrepreneurship, systems thinking, and human-centered design can turn ideas into real-world solutions

Design Milk · EN

Agents struggle with the same bad UX we do

Computer-use agents can’t guess, improvise, or ask a coworker. That makes them the most honest usability testers we’ve ever had. The first time I watched an agent fail on a vendor portal, I recognized the failure immediately. Not because I understood the model. Because I’d failed in exactly the same place myself. For example, I watched a run where an agent reached a form that had two buttons labeled “Continue” and “Submit”, chose the wrong one, and the run stalled. This wasn’t the agent’s fault, it was bad UX. I design products at Deck, where we build infrastructure for computer-use agents: so

UX Collective · EN

What do you do when a design solution is already pre-built?

How to deal with the “Fastest Idea in the Room” Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective · EN

I let AI build. I don’t let AI decide.

A long workbench split down the middle, finished tools stacked on one side and a single open notebook on the other. My list of tasks I give models without a second thought and what I review until the tools evolve. I’ve used generative models for almost four years and designed machine learning applications for seven before that, so people ask what I delegate. I approach this as an apologist, someone who makes the case for the technology in the right context. That’s generous, since an OpenAI model declared me dead in 2023. As far as public reports available up to my latest update (October 2024),

UX Collective · EN

Everyone is building AI agents. Who’s designing the stop button?

We used to design predictable user flows. Now AI can interpret, decide, and act on its own. Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends. Showing where AI stops in the flow — by gpt In September 2025, researchers at Thinking Machines Lab ran the same prompt through a language model 1,000 times. They set the temperature to zero, a setting that should, in theory, make token selection deterministic. They got 80 different completions from the same prompt, model, and settings. What’s even more interesting is that all 1,000 outputs were identical for the first 102 tokens.

UX Collective · EN

The Long Island Home Norman Jaffe Built for a Speed-Dealing Diet Doctor

A calm, bright 1970s space in Old Westbury with a nifty pool house.

Curbed · EN