ChatGBT Voice

OpenAI’s new conversational voice model is amazing. It manages interruptions, performs real-time fact-checking, and handles live language translation, creating a more human-like communication experience. 

Via Duck Soup

Eyes On The Road!

A public service announcement from Volkswagen.

Via Memo Of The Air

U2 + Gospel Choir

In 1987, U2 traveled to Harlem’s Greater Calvary Baptist Church (50-50 W 124th St) to rehearse "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" with the choir New Voices of Freedom. 

 

The choir would later record their own version of the song for their album Rockspel. 

Via Miss Cellania

Teasing The Kitty

New cartoon by Michael de Adder.

Jackpot

A sci-fi short about Kris, a salvage worker, who stumbles upon the last living tree in the universe.

(Memo Of The Air)

The Art of Katsuyuki Nishijima

This series by Katsuyuki Nishijima is inspired by The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō ukiyo-e print series by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige which depicted notable places on one of the main roads leading from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Nishijima’s modern day version follows a similar route showing some of the old buildings seen along the way.

More: Feuilleton

That’s a Lot Of '69 Chargers!

When I saw this image at Bits and Pieces I was curious about the number of '69 Chargers that were destroyed during the 7-season run of The Dukes of Hazzard. AI gives a precise figure of 317 Dodge Chargers totalled across the show's 147 episodes, averaging about two to three wrecked cars per episode.

Music For Sunday Morning

Thistle - OVER THE GARDEN WALL

Sunday Links

Via thierrylechanteur

What if Antoni Gaudí Had Designed a Massive Hotel in New York? Before his death, Gaudí had begun a proposed Hotel Attraction for New York City. This is an imagined version of what it might have been. (image above)

A chilling story about neighbours from hell: ’He hadn’t been trying to scare us. He’d been trying to kill us’

Are you looking for something to read? Uncovered.ink is a great little literary gadget. Read the opening of a real book, blind, and answer the only question that matters: would you keep reading? (Free, the way we like it, with no account required to start reading.) Via TMN

The night the earth shook, strangers started to draw and saved lives. Inside the edit history of the world's free map. This is a great story via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese

Every John Oliver Scene on General Hospital Via MetaFilter

These balloon animals are not like the ones you and I make. Via Tacky Raccoons

Binface vs Farage

Who’s that mysterious woman, sobbing into her lace handkerchief at your husband’s funeral service? Could this be her?

Are you looking for a place to store your batmobile? Batman’s stately Wayne Manor for sale

The possibility of U.S. abandonment of the world order was terrifying. The reality turns out to be a new beginning. Canada, America’s neighbor, was the first to see it, naturally. (NYT gift link)

Comrade Kitty A socialist comic strip.

Minnesota State Fair New Foods For 2026 Best read when hungry. I read this article right after lunch. Don’t do that.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: NYC garbage hawker, Justin Gignac, collected bits of garbage from outside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding venue and put them in little plastic boxes. They flew off the shelves at $25 a piece. 

Disaster Mansion (NYT gift link)

In a notorious trial dubbed the “Dingo Case”,  Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of the murder of her infant daughter, Azaria, on October 29, 1982. Her conviction was officially overturned by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in 1988 but evidence that's too sensitive for public display remains in a national museum's collection. Via Metafilter

Lovely Pixel Skylines 

Send a message with the middle finger divorce ring

“The possibility of U.S. abandonment of the world order was terrifying. The reality turns out to be a new beginning. Canada, America’s neighbor, was the first to see it, naturally.”(NYT gift link)

A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. NYT gift link

Food fraud is big business. Can you guess what the most stolen food in the world is? Via PfRC

Skip these vintageYouTube videos if you are triggered by the horror genre. I nearly jumped out of my skin watching the first one. Via TMN

From insulin to poutine - a history of Canada in 24 objects.

According to the International Mail Manual, it’s prohibited to send these things.

The Victorian Web Contains links to literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria. One of the oldest academic and scholarly websites, it entered the Internet in 1994. It’s a bit of a rabbit hole. Via Metafilter

This map displays the sunrise and sunset times for any location on Earth, for any day of the year.

Happy Caturday

 

I would kill or die for Larry

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— Jon Phillips (@jowiph.bsky.social) July 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM

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