Sounds before a lightning strike

Supercilium clouds in Santa Cruz, California

The Monterrey Stadium in Mexico

Coronal rain (Wikipedia)

https://x.com/fal/status/2092710676431020376 "Introducing H3 Max, new post-trained video model by fal Research." Faster-than-real-time video generation has been achieved!

The Night Sky Should Be Brighter Than the Sun (YouTube) Explanation of Olbers' paradox and the origin of the cosmic microwave background

Botanical Park of Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Qualcomm presentation at Computex 2026

TIL (or relearned I think) that the 21^st century officially started on January 1, 2001 in the Gregorian calendar because there's no year 0

Seals don't have a smooth skin, they have fur!

First Class on China’s Most Luxurious Sleeper Train (YouTube) "The brand new Silk Road Express! Over the next three days, we’ll travel from Xining to Dunhuang, climbing to over 9,000 feet above sea level before crossing the Gobi Desert."

What Do You Eat in Antarctica? | Antarctic Extremes (YouTube) "So how do the hundreds of scientists and support personnel who visit Antarctica’s McMurdo Station each year stay fed? Throughout their one-month stay in Antarctica, hosts Caitlin Saks and Arlo Pérez discover the secret sauce of Antarctic cooking from experts at McMurdo’s galley".

I Play Rocky | Official Trailer (YouTube) A movie about Sylvester Stallone and the making of Rocky, coming out this November. Looks great!

The Biggest Misconception About Electricity (YouTube) How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story (YouTube) I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate (YouTube) How Electricity Actually Works (YouTube) Although I'm going to stick to relearning the lumped-element model and circuit theory for my electronics projects next year, the fundamental nature of electricity is still fascinating to learn more about.

I'll fix the visitor counter one day, but that day is not today (nor tomorrow)

Raptor code (Wikipedia) Fountain code (Wikipedia) https://x.com/doodlestein/status/2075711880426062074 https://jeffreyemanuel.com/writing/raptorq "Raptor codes are the first known class of fountain codes with linear time encoding and decoding" "In RaptorQ, every file turns into a stream of symbols where any K (plus a small epsilon) of them reconstruct the original. You can think of these as fungible water droplets from a fountain (hence the name fountain code), any one of which can help you fill your glass (reconstruct your file); there's no "rarest" hard-to-find chunk to cause you to get stuck at 99% completion, like with BitTorrent, which has disjoint, non-fungible chunks. So the question "which packets got lost?" stops mattering, only the NUMBER of distinct packets sent matters. That one property nullifies the entire retransmission conversation since you no longer have per-loss round trips, head-of-line blocking, or window collapse. A 10% loss rate costs roughly 10% extra bandwidth instead of stalling everything." "Turn any file into an infinite stream of interchangeable packets. Collect any K of them, in any order, and recover the original. The total overhead: under 5%." TIL about fountain codes and RaptorQ, it's really incredible

The night the earth shook, strangers started to draw "An earthquake, a blank map, and 9,235 strangers tracing rooftops for rescuers they will never meet."

Surface of asteroid Ryugu

The World's Most Important Machine (YouTube) Documentary about EUV and ASML

My favorite armwrestling edit, featuring the GOAT John Brzenk

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/ Very interesting new alternative to Electron, Tauri etc: - can choose between the OS webview or an embedded Chromium (CEF) - no IPC! Backend and UI communication goes through in-process channels - built-in binary-diff auto-update - cross-compile from one machine

ColeCake fixed his tooth, it's not the same anymore

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity Interesting documentary, but too short!

I feel like Topuria bulked up too much, which made him lose some speed and stamina, and Gaethje was then able to outlast him

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/ The debugging capabilities of Claude Fable are quite amazing

E Ink@COMPUTEX 2026 (YouTube) Impressive new e-paper technology showcased by the E Ink company at COMPUTEX 2026

https://mirwaisse.com/2026/06/08/ai-video-generation-is-becoming-quite-good ONE PIECE | Straw Hat Crew vs The Three Admirals — Live Action Trailer (4K) My favorite one yet, One Piece + Brazilian Phonk + epic scenes

[AI Live Action] Marineford War: Whitebeard & Luffy's Epic Arrival! | One Piece (Sub English, Indo) (YouTube) Part 2. Epic Marineford War Live Action & AI Battle: Whitebeard & Luffy vs 3 Admirals! | One Piece (YouTube) [AI Fan Film] The God Valley Incident & Kuma's Origin | Unofficial One Piece Cinematic Tribute (YouTube) [AI Fan Film] Aokiji vs Akainu - The Burning Frost | Unofficial One Piece Cinematic Reimagining (YouTube) AI videos are becoming quite remarkable. They still look a bit lifeless/unnatural/awkward sometimes but it's a lot better than last year. Just compare the last 2 videos to an older (only 5 months old!) video from the same AI studio. As models and their wielders' skills improve, a new era of content creation will emerge!

It's time to lock in

https://mirwaisse.com/2026/05/20/the-enhanced-games-are-happening-this-sunday Well, that was underwhelming 🫪

https://www.enhanced.com/games Enhanced Games (Wikipedia) The Enhanced Games are happening this Sunday. I'm kind of morbidly curious about them, it might be interesting to watch!

https://x.com/Cameron_C2/status/2053912998129905977 Oxfmt support for Svelte is here! Now we just need Oxlint and Drizzle v1 and we'll be gucci

https://x.com/AOUREDOO/status/2053981928835932503 Really cool to see the huge support from the entire country of Myanmar for their athlete Joshua Van. It reminds me of the Philippines with Manny Pacquiao.

Iridescent cloud in Jiangyin, China

Bdelloid rotifer, an aquatic microorganism. "These little guys are pretty common in fresh water systems (and activated sludge plants, where I tend to see them). The little chainsaws are not actually rotating, they are extensions with many small vibrating cilia on them that just look a bit like rotating blades. The cilia create water movement into their mouths, which gets free free floating bacteria in there to eat them." (/u/Skudedarude) Also, they reproduce by parthenogenesis lol

Wow, Netflix is going to release a remake of the One Piece anime (only the early episodes though) in February 2027!

Just learned that creatine might be the cause of all the damn cramps I've been having the last few months. I'll stop taking it because I didn't notice any performance gains anyway and even if there were any, it's definitely not worth it. I didn't know I could have cramps in my lats.

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/talkie/ "Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you?" Really interesting experiment, an LLM trained only on historical data. Can such models rediscover general relativity? (see also Machina Mirabilis)

1000th episode of the Syntax podcast!

Always take the path of least cortisol

Cub Swanson retires after a flawless final performance #UFC327 I'll always remember his fight against Doo Ho Choi, one of the best fights of the decade

https://x.com/jaffathecake/status/2039632975831191858 https://x.com/kvncnls/status/2040155158848344176 WICG/html-in-canvas (GitHub) The HTML-in-Canvas proposal is really cool

Artemis II is launching soon!!

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2036487306585268612 How a Poisoned Security Scanner Became the Key to Backdooring LiteLLM Supply chain attack on LiteLLM (97M downloads/month). I really need to start containerizing everything 💀

if i make millions, nobody around me will be broke and i mean that. i will be moving to a very wealthy neighborhood https://x.com/intern/status/2034369777808883852

Why I ditched ComfyUI for Diffusers (Youtube) Mellon (GitHub) Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines Interesting new alternative to ComfyUI

I kind of want to make myself a cyberdeck

Mic check one two one two

Is this thing on