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Artists' Calendar Celebrates LA’s Everyday Landmarks For 40 years, Nib Geebles and Abira Ali have chronicled the unspoken, day-to-day minutiae of their hometown in their beloved calendar.

For 40 years, Nib Geebles and Abira Ali have chronicled the unspoken, day-to-day minutiae of their hometown in their beloved calendar.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

not inspiring a lot of confidence www.404media.co/meta-directo...

He photographed Alysa Liu as a kid. Now she’s an Olympic gold medalist. Ryan Young first took pictures of Alysa Liu for the The New York Times when she was 13 and doing Biellmann spins until he got the shot. A decade later, she texted him “omg yeaaaa” when he asked to sho...

Photos: Before winning Olympic gold, Alysa Liu was just an East Bay kid sfstandard.com/2026/02/22/r...

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Tong Yan Gaai (Chinatown) - Google Arts & Culture Photographer Morris Lum explores how Chinese identity is expressed in Chinatowns across North America.

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404 Media's Super Bowl Ad YouTube video by 404 Media

@404media.co 's Superbowl Ad!
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John Chiara Illuminates the World’s Simple Mysteries Building large-scale camera obscuras, Chiara makes wistful photographs that recall the medium’s origins—and our own.

The incredible photography of John Chiara.

Portraits Of Ygnacio Valley High School Students in Concord, California 1984 - Flashbak In High School, we hang out with the jocks, goths, nerds, cholas, punks, weirdos, stoners and cheerleaders at a California school

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Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things An NPR journalist’s fumbled tweet exposes a hole in the debate about urban cycling

Wow this is an amazing summation of this issue.

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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

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Inside a Hidden LA Greenhouse Full of the World’s Rarest Plants | Architectural Digest YouTube video by Architectural Digest

Amazing tour of a rare plant greenhouse right in the middle of Downtown Los Angeles:
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92 Street Y Audio Archives:
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Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions

Ansel Adams’ pictures of Los Angeles recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs We’ve all seen Ansel Adams’ luscious black-and-white images of Yosemite. Lesser known are his pictures of life in World War II-era Los…

Amazing cache of WWII era photos of California's aerospace industry. via @califsun.bsky.social

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever "This was the first time our park biologists observed anything like this."

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Bubbling Under Hot 100 History: Billboard’s Chart Overhang The tale of the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the place where wannabe hits go to die—in some cases, over and over again.

Excellent history of Billboard chart adjacent hits and their long and surprising afterlife:

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via @ernie.tedium.co

SURFING THE BIGGEST DAY IN MAVERICKS HISTORY (FULL BREAKDOWN) YouTube video by Luca Padua

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“The best-performing AI system successfully completed only 2.5 percent of the projects.”

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Blackstar (★) But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene. Ja…

Ten years since Bowie's Blackstar. Wonderful anniversary piece from @bowiesongs.bsky.social.
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Andrew Waits : The Middle Distance - LENSCRATCH The Middle Distance, self-published by Andrew Waits through his imprint Semi-Precious, is a photobook about in-between spaces, geographically, emotionally, and artistically. Treasure Island, with its ...

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How Opera Was More Punk Than You Ever Were And why you should express your opinion even if you are wrong

I have really enjoyed Chris Pitsiokos' ongoing series of essays / blog entries about the state of avant-garde and underground music: chrispitsiokos.substack.com/p/how-opera-...

The Culture and History of the Japanese Postal System | Article Discover the history and culture of Japan’s postal system, from iconic red postboxes to the 〒 symbol, at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles.

www.japanhousela.com/articles/mor...