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French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56

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Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html

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Dumbphone 2

https://dumb.co/

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Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: "Fuck the Empire "

https://kottke.org/26/06/tony-gilroy-accepts-award-for-andor-fuck-the-empire-1

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Patreon Refuses to Remove YouTuber's Viral Lego Investigation

https://kotaku.com/lego-star-wars-reckless-ben-youtube-bricks-minifigs-patreon-mormon-mafia-2000701942

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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

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Iran war drains US oil stocks to lowest level since 2004

https://www.ft.com/content/d0be73c8-b8d8-4ffd-874e-e97a6ecffef7

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The Ü Programming Language

https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/

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The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century

https://montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-theft

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A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]

https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf

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Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-the-future-of-image-coding.html

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Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

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Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html

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American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn

https://economist.com/business/2026/06/03/american-capitalism-has-taken-an-apocalyptic-turn

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Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

https://brume.aftertone.co/

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The ways we contain Claude across products

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude

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"They're made out of weights"

https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights