Cedric on deadpan photography (square framing, flat light, uniform focus) as a style that doesn’t claim neutrality so much as perform it, machinery left on display. The caveat lands well, the same refusal to editorialise reads very differently when the subject is suffering rather than water towers.

John Clary Davies on a 3 A.M. bear at his kitchen window and a record year for human-bear conflicts in Colorado. There have been over 7,000 incidents by early September. A dry winter and drought pushing bears toward houses and a whole town trading stories about cubs on the bike path.

Fugleramme is a real-time bird detection system that listens for birds and renders them as hand-cut 1800s-style illustrations on an e-ink display powered by a Raspberry Pi.

A manifesto making the case that owning your own website instead of feeding a platform is basically punk.

Sami Smith built Misen, a launchpad with a skeuomorphic design of a room. It’s kind of incredible what people are building with the help of LLMs.