A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

A screenshot from Google’s Family Link app showing the “shorts feed limit” page. It has a new option called “off”, which I have checked.

Oh my god you can finally disable shorts on your kids’ YouTube accounts. It’s a miracle.

Just leave it in your drafts

Made gingerbread with my daughter. Used some 3D printed gruffalo cutters

The fact that Mark Fisher is the favored philosopher of the new Anthropic model is an Easter egg for the UK crowd though

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.

I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

Forgot yesterday to wish those who celebrate a Happy New UK Tax Year, may your allowances be fully utilised and may your capital gains be realised (but only up to the annual exempt amount)

Happy Easter!

I remember living in a small house in Leeds and someone chucked in a "we tried and you were not here" without knocking that basically landed on my lap, he shit himself when I opened the door and said YES I AM and went and got the package. Almost like someone somewhere is measuring the wrong thing

It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system. Kalshi and other regulated prediction markets are better for consumers and threaten gambling monopolies. So casinos take their profits (which come directly from people’s losses) and use it to fund the state’s litigation to try and shut down their competition. This is part of why so many people believe the government doesn’t work for them anymore

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year.

Someone ran my quantisation post through Google’s NotebookLM and created an AI video of it.

I don’t really get it? I watched the whole thing and it’s wrong in many places. Lots of the visuals are inaccurate, or don’t line up well with the AI voice.

Why not just… read the post? I made it correct.

Pinocchio, but all you have to do is specify exactly what not being a real boy is

Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026.

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I have a folder of them that I add to most slacks, also nice to remember "not a cat"

Adam Becker is my favorite interplanetary colonization hater

Big Freeagent

There really needs to be a no-AI conference. Not an anti-AI one, just one where people turn up for a day or two somewhere and happen to not talk about it

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Exclusive | Justice Department Probes Iran’s Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions The investigation is focused on money flowing through the crypto platform to a network that backs terror groups, including Yemen’s Houthi militants.

Recall that Binance co-founder CZ was pardoned by President Trump last October.

on Audible there is a BBC fairy tales where Lenny Henry does a puss in boots that for some reason sounds like Elvis, we love it

Almbun cover for David Bowie and Peter and the Wolf

In the search for calm things to play while kids are having breakfast, I stumbled across David Bowie doing Peter and the Wolf: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie_Narrate... It’s mostly very Jackanory,... richardpope.org/2026/03/10/in-the-search...

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Paged Out! Deeply technical zine. And it's free.

pagedout.institute this is very cool

Thanks to Daniel Immerwahr for including my book in his @bloomberg.com piece on five books for understanding the current geopolitical moment.

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Are you using open models on a regular basis? If yes, I’d love to hear about it!

- what’s your use-case?
- local or through an inference provider?
- how has the experience evolved over time?
- anything you miss from the closed models, if you’ve used them?

Would appreciate reposts for visibility 🙏

Bought an angler fish plushy for my daughter and I love the pink bow it came with so much

Can confirm

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