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Extended trailer for Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
5 May 2026 @ 9:49 pm
Chris Nolan may be done making Batman movies, but you could be mistaken for thinking otherwise with how dark, gritty and full of black armor his upcoming The Odyssey movie is shaping up to be. Better-informed historians than I have torn into this movie for its lack of any real-world historical aesthetic. — The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model
5 May 2026 @ 9:22 pm
Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn't quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences his own thinking. The more he interacts with AI tools for research and development, the more he notices the overlap — and the more he wonders whether the comparison goes deeper than metaphor. — Keep your projects on track with Microsoft Project Professional 2024
5 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm
TL;DR: The ultimate project management tool, Microsoft Project Professional 2024: Lifetime License for WindowsWhy the "It's not X, it's Y" AI tic backfires on its writers
5 May 2026 @ 8:44 pm
Try to keep the idea of a white bear out of your head.
Daniel Wegner's 1987 experiment is now showing up in a critique of one of the most recognizable AI writing tics, the LinkedIn-saturated "It's not X, it's Y," by University of Guelph linguistics scholar Joshua Gonzales, writing for The Conversation. — One psilocybin dose may reshape brain wiring a month later
5 May 2026 @ 8:40 pm
A new paper in Nature Communications, covered by Ian Sample at the Guardian, claims a single 25mg dose may leave behind anatomical changes in the wiring itself, still visible 30 days on.
Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London recruited 28 psychedelic-naive adults and gave each of them a token 1mg primer, then a fuAfter Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again
5 May 2026 @ 8:35 pm
This Friday, May 8, Meta will turn off end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. The feature, added as opt-in in 2023, is being yanked because almost nobody used it — or at least, that's the official explanation, according to MacRumors, citing a Meta spokesperson who told The Guardian: "Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMsStunning new scans reveal RMS Titanic debris field in eerie detail
5 May 2026 @ 5:35 pm
Newly released 3D scans of the RMS Titanic wreck site reveal a sprawling debris field where everything from delicate tableware to massive machinery lies scattered across the ocean floor, presenting an unusually clear picture of how the ship broke apart during its final descent. — Read the rest When your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality
5 May 2026 @ 5:26 pm
Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is, inconveniently, too large to dock in many of the places billionaires like to show them off.
Koru is one of the largest sailing yachts in the world, and the largest that moves under sail only.
— HowToBasic goes vegan with extremely cursed burger recipe
5 May 2026 @ 5:04 pm
I never thought I'd see the day when HowToBasic, the unhinged YouTube chef most famous for adding an artery-clogging amount of raw eggs to the smoldering detritus he calls his food, went vegan. Not a single one of his recipes ends without something on fire or someone grievously injured, which is exactly what makes watching him so mesmerizing. — This destroyed Nintendo 3DS restoration is supernaturally relaxing
5 May 2026 @ 5:04 pm
A nearly destroyed Nintendo 3DS gets a meticulous second life in this restoration video, and watching it is ASMR-level satisfying. The careful disassembly of wafer-thin circuit boards, the lineup of delicate specialized tools, the anti-yellowing washes — it's all extremely methodical in a way that scratches the brain in exactly the right spot. ̵