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Non-profit raffle. Buy a ticket for 100 euros for a chance to win a Picasso valued at 1 million euros. All proceeds go to Fondation Recherche Alzheimer, the leading organisation in France dedicated to research on Alzheimer's disease.
This is pretty incredible. There are 120,000 tickets, so chances you win aren’t super high, but that means the Opera Gallery gets its million for the painting and then 11 million goes to Alzheimer’s research. Hard to think of a better way to donate than this.
Free browser-based ASCII wireframe editor. Design UI mockups, lo-fi prototypes, and text diagrams with drag-and-drop components — no signup required.
This is extremely cool, although I have no idea what I'd actually use it for in day-to-day practice.
Via: Jason Santa Maria
Whether you’re a frightened child wondering if your parents are teetering on the precipice of divorce, a hard-of-hearing person worried about missing the nuances of under-the-breath barbs, or simply fed up with listening to your coworkers bicker, our app will do the work of listening to and analyzing any argument for you. We plan to add more categories of arguments, culturally specific approaches to conflict resolution, and, eventually, a Polymarket feature that lets users live-stream a fight in progress while others gamble on the outcome in real time.
As I've gotten older and gotten into birds a bit, this does an excellent job at breaking down the moment we are in as a society.
The new shopping features come a few weeks after a dustup in which influencers caught Instagram adding shopping links to their content without their permission. The “Shop the look” feature added links to cheap lookalike products and not the actual items, an influencer who discovered the feature said. Meta said at the time it was a limited test and that the company was “exploring various changes” to the feature.
I don’t really care about the actual meat of this. It’s already flooded with ads and affiliates and people just trying to make a buck. I think the consistent abuse, exploitation, and misleading of customers is shameful and paying $375m in New Mexico isn’t enough of a punishment.
Hamilton acknowledged that Hegseth has no legal authority to bar military contractors from using Anthropic for work unrelated to the Department of Defense. When asked by Lin why Hegseth would have posted that, Hamilton said, “I don’t know.”
It’s 100% punitive. You don’t go from using the product and negotiating a new contract to expand capabilities to declaring they are a supply chain risk and can’t be used by any government contractor. It’s ridiculous.
Amazon MGM Studios is adapting the comic book Monstress into an animated series, with Steven Maeda (One Piece, Lost, The X-Files) helming the project.
Monstress is one of those books I've had on my bookshelf for years that I haven't gotten around to actually sitting down to read. I need to rectify that soon. It's one of the longest running comics going on outside of the Big Two and for good reason, I imagine.
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