Vol. I · No. 66WED, JUN 24, 2026
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How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines

In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man says. “Give me an heir, or…

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Anthropic EU Suspension Cases

EU-based Anthropic users report account suspensions with unresponsive support, raising questions about Claude service reliability and appeal processes.

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stopped padding my prompts and told the AI to define its own terms instead. different outputs entirely.

ok so I've been doing the thing everyone does - writing longer and longer prompts. add more context, clarify the constraints, specify the tone, list edge cases. output gets marginally better maybe. hallucinations stay anyway. tried something different a few weeks ago. instead of defining everything myself I just added one line: "use Aristotelian first principles reasoning. before you proceed, break every undefined term down to its atomic meaning." then asked for "a world-class website." normally that phrase produces average stuff. like the statistical middle of the internet. but with that...

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QR code generator

Simon Willison built a QR code generator with Claude; demonstrates practical LLM-assisted coding for utility tools.

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I built the smart speaker we always wanted

I wanted to see if Claude can handle Vibe Hardware Engineering to help me make a smart speaker. Turns out, it can! I call it boxBot. It helped select the hardware set, raspberry pi, Hailo , respeaker mic, pi camera, waveshare screen and speakers. Helped me calculate thermal loads and dissipation rates for a passive cooling setup. I made the box by hand out of walnut. The agent inside is custom as well. You could probably throw openclaw on it and call it a day but I wanted to craft something that was tightly coupled with the hardware more secured considering it’s sitting in my living room ...

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datasette-agent 0.1a2

datasette-agent 0.1a2 binds tool availability to required_permission; defaults require datasette-agent-background permission.

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