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⌨️ How to build the best keyboard in the world /// The Verge

2025-06-21 03:15:00

The build quality is astonishing, the Topre-style switches are better than Topre’s, the stabilizers are better than anyone’s, and the keyboard is beautiful and a joy to type on. The Seneca is a genuine technical accomplishment.

Holy. Crap. $3600?! Who wants to hire Humdrum Industries for 24 hours so I can snag one of these magnificent beauties. Still probably just going to pick-up an HHKB to replace my RealForce, but goddamn do I want this.

🪾 David Lynch’s Producer Says ‘Unrecorded Night’ Was “The Best Thing He Ever Did” /// World of Reel

2025-06-20 06:40:00

And despite recent murmurs that the screenplay may eventually be published — possibly even novelized — nothing can replace the cinematic experience that could’ve been.

I know it could never be what Lynch imagined, but I so badly want Dern, Watts, and MacLachlan to find a director they like who is a bit earlier in their career—maybe Dream Scenario’s Kristoffer Borgli—and get this movie made.

🏪 New Digital Comics Store Takes Aim at Amazon /// NY Times

2025-06-20 05:48:00

Next month, they plan to launch Neon Ichiban, a site they intend to be a dedicated experience for comics,” Mr. Steinberger said, after raising more than $7 million from investors in the game and movie industries.

I have way too many thoughts about this. First Steinberger was a founder of ComiXology and along with Mosher, oversaw its collapse in Amazon’s hands. Also, these two recently founded DSTLRY, which readers of Foofaraw might know I despise because of their digital tactics. Then there’s the fact I’m not sure digital comics is a business that warrants $7mil in funding—unless you plan to sell to a tech conglomerate again. Lastly, Sweet Shop is a digital comics store coming from a much smaller indie team that also has Image and IDW lined up already. Competition is great, but I’m not sure I trust these guys to do what’s best for comics.

💸 Sam Altman says Meta has offered some OpenAI employees $100 million signing bonuses. /// The Verge

2025-06-19 14:05:00

So far, none of our best people have decided to take them up on that,” according to Altman.

Really, really hard to take Altman at his word on anything, especially something like this, but Meta did make $45b in profit (based on a quick search) last year… Still who is insane enough to turn down $100 million to work for one evil, shitty tech place over another.

🤖 The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation /// Columbia Journalism Review

2025-06-19 08:43:00

Content moderation experts seem to approve. I don’t think it’s hype,” said Vaishnavi J, a founder of Vys, a trust and safety advisory firm that helps companies implement AI safeguards for youth harms.

I know people might think of me as a huge AI hater, but this is an area I appreciate being explored. Moderation is hard and having people stare at posts all day—some that may be disturbing—is an admirable thing to avoid. I’d use it similar to Clarkesworld’s filters1, where everything goes through a funnel, and the items flagged are then reviewed by a human, and the filter is adjusted accordingly. With AI, maybe you could try to have it come up with its own confidence level, and review those with low confidence and only review the high confidence if there’s an appeal.


  1. I don’t think they use AI for their filtering, for the record.↩︎

🖼️ Why it’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting /// The Hustle

2025-06-19 08:18:00

All told, Bob Ross churned out ~30k paintings in his lifetime — nearly 3x the output of Picasso, a prolific painter in his own right.

It’s incredibly cool to just think about the fact most of those are hanging up in normal people’s houses. Too often it feels like art is an asset stowed away, but given Ross’s prolificness and every man” nature, flips that on its head in a way few have.