Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

from the can-they-all-lose? dept

Last week we wrote about how Elon Musk’s xAI had filed a lawsuit to attempt to block Minnesota’s anti-nudify app law. As we tried to explain, even if you (reasonably, understandably) dislike both Elon and “nudify” apps, there were real problems with the Minnesota law. In particular, it was not narrowly tailored to just target truly harmful image edits. Indeed, it wasn’t even limited to the non-consensual use of the tech. The state’s Supreme Court had already handed the Minnesota legislature a clear roadmap for drafting a law like this that would pass strict scrutiny. The legislature ignored it.

However, the lawsuit was filed just days before the law was set to go into effect, which was called out by Minnesota’s Attorney General in arguing against a temporary restraining order:

First, X.AI’s lack of diligence confirms that a TRO is unnecessary. The company waited until the last minute to sue…

And that seemed to influence Judge Donovan Frank, who denied the motion for the TRO mainly because Elon waited until the last minute to file.

The Court respectfully denies the request for a temporary restraining order before tomorrow. xAI filed the motion on July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed, and only three days before the law is set to take effect. Such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate.

And, sure, it was kind of silly for Musk to wait right up until the law was set to go into effect, but that’s not all that rare with challenges to these kinds of laws. I also find the court’s suggestion that the harm isn’t immediate a bit odd, given that (as xAI had rightly pointed out) the potential liability under this law is massive: $500,000 per “access, download, or use.” That means any single use of Grok to edit an image that violates this law (which, as we discussed, goes way beyond nonconsensual sexual imagery, and could even cover someone editing a photo of themselves in a way they endorse) could lead to a huge bill for the company. And it’s now in effect, meaning in theory Minnesota’s AG, Keith Ellison, could already seek fines against the company — though there’s no indication that his office has done so yet. And while it may be politically appealing to try to enforce immediately, that may play badly before the court when there are hearings coming up in a few weeks on a preliminary injunction.

It’s also unclear if xAI actually changed anything on its end. In its filing, the company said that if the law went into effect, it would need to restrict access to certain features:

Confronted with $500,000-per-image strict liability and no safe harbor, xAI has no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine’s image-editing features in various ways when the statute takes effect on August 1, 2026

But the law has gone into effect, and as far as I can tell, there’s been no announcement of any changes. It’s possible such changes have been made already and just not announced. But it does come off as a bit weak to file a lawsuit on Monday saying that “if this law isn’t fixed by Saturday we’ll make big changes” and then have the law go into effect… and those changes are not publicly announced anywhere.

This ruling may not mean very much at all. The court has ordered both sides to brief a preliminary injunction over the next couple weeks, with a hearing on August 19th that can get into the actual First Amendment problems with the law. That also means xAI will likely have to explain, in those filings, whatever restrictions it has or hasn’t added to its systems.

xAI’s initial filing was not bad, but I hope they lean more heavily on the case I discussed in my last post, in which Minnesota’s Supreme Court spelled out exactly what the state’s non-consensual intimate imagery law needed to survive strict scrutiny. Because that case walks through, in great detail, the steps a (somewhat similar) law had to take to pass strict scrutiny and survive the First Amendment — even as the court acknowledged the law was punishing a form of protected speech.

There remain some oddities around this law, starting with the fact that the ACLU of Minnesota backed it in the first place — a surprising stance for the ACLU — before reversing course once Musk sued:

xAI’s criticism of the law is drawing support from some free-speech advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, which supported passage of the law in an earlier form in February but has since turned against it.

“While we believe that creating the technology to alter or ‘nudify’ photos of identifiable people is protected by the First Amendment, we also recognize that the non-consensual creation and dissemination of such material can inflict damage on people appearing in those images,” the ACLU of Minnesota said in a statement Friday.

“In engaging with lawmakers on this issue, we hoped to strike an appropriate balance between First Amendment rights and the ability of people harmed to seek remedial measures, not unlike the remedies available to people harmed by defamation. The final version of the bill does not strike that balance,” the organization said.

Seems like the sort of thing you should have worked out before supporting the law, but fine.

Also, I had mentioned in my last article that some believe the law was written so badly on purpose, to convince Musk to sue in order for Democrats to use it as a political tool and… they are certainly making political hay of it on X, where they seem to be overjoyed that they can mock Elon.

And, sure, mocking Elon is fun. But if you’re going to mock him, it should be over the things he’s actually doing that are problematic.

The issue with this law isn’t that it’s trying to deal with the issue of nudify apps. Or that it’s trying to stop Elon from doing terrible things. It’s that it did so in such a ham-fisted, damaging, obviously unconstitutional manner that bans way more than it claims, is not narrowly targeted, and pretty clearly cannot survive strict scrutiny. Minnesota had the roadmap to pass a legitimate version of this law. It chose not to do so. That Musk didn’t receive the immediate TRO due to the late filing doesn’t make the law a good law. The proper thing for Minnesota’s legislature to do would be to write a law that actually abides by the First Amendment, but perhaps that wouldn’t get them the kinds of headlines they’re getting now.

Filed Under: 1st amendment, amy klobuchar, elon musk, keith ellison, minnesota, nudify, preliminary injunction, tim walz, tro

Companies: spacex, x, xai

ISA Matters: Valve developers have been working hard to finalize the software stack for the upcoming Steam Frame. Despite using an Arm-based processor, the VR headset is expected to support both PC and Android games thanks to a complex compatibility layer.

Valve recently updated the Steam pages for Lepton and FEX, two tools designed to improve compatibility between the popular PC gaming platform and Arm-based devices. The tools are expected to play a major role in turning the upcoming Steam Frame into a “real” gaming headset from the get-go.

Lepton and FEX still lack public store pages on Steam, but their update histories can be viewed through SteamDB’s archive. The first hints about Lepton appeared online in 2025, suggesting that Valve was embarking on yet another major compatibility project. Just as Proton acts as a compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux using Wine, Lepton is expected to leverage the container-based Waydroid system to run Android apps on a full Linux distribution.

– Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) August 1, 2026

Meanwhile, FEX is an emulator designed to translate API calls and recompile code from x86 applications into native implementations for the Arm64 instruction set architecture (ISA). The emulator is designed to reduce emulation overhead and improve performance, and it can already offer “broad” compatibility with both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 binary applications – i.e., games.

FEX was previously advertised as a compatibility tool that could be used alongside Wine/Proton to play Windows games on Arm devices. With Valve taking part in the project, the emulator could quickly gain traction, just as Proton has become a major player and software product in the Linux gaming market.

Lepton, Proton, and FEX are expected to handle game compatibility within the Steam Frame ecosystem. The upcoming VR headset is based on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Arm64 SoC and a SteamOS build based on the Arch Linux distribution. Valve is also known for providing financial support to the Arch project.

Steam Frame’s compatibility setup should work something like this: Lepton will handle Android games in its container-based system, while FEX will translate x86-64 native code to Arm. Finally, Proton will run Windows-based software on the Arm architecture.

Earlier this year, Valve announced that the headset’s final release date had been delayed due to the memory shortage crisis caused by AI data center overprovisioning. Now that two major pieces of the device’s software stack are finally showing their “faces” in public, the actual launch date for Steam Frame should not be too far away.

AirPods could soon add a new way to help Siri understand what’s happening around you, and it may arrive sooner than expected. According to a report published Sunday by Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, Apple could release camera-equipped AirPods later this year. That’s earlier than previous reports of a 2027 launch.

The prediction is based on code found in the iOS 27 beta releases, which are early test versions of the software, that reference a device called B790. This device is reportedly a version of another camera-equipped AirPods device code-named B798, and B790 is supposedly further along in development than its counterpart.

Since it’s already August, that means we could see camera-equipped AirPods in the next few months.

An Apple representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Bloomberg reported in June that camera-equipped AirPods are meant to be Apple’s first AI-focused wearable product. Rather than capturing photos or videos, the cameras would function as visual sensors, giving Siri more context about what’s happening around the user. The AirPod cameras would analyze images and provide you with context based on what they see.

There are still plenty of unanswered questions about the device.

AirPods have long been prized for their compact, lightweight design, so adding cameras could make the earbuds noticeably bulkier. If they become too large, will they stay secure during activities like running or workouts?

There’s also the question of how the cameras will work in practice. Will users need to point their heads in a specific direction for the cameras to capture what Siri needs to see, or will Apple use wide-angle or panoramic cameras that can recognize a user’s surroundings regardless of head position? The latter would likely provide a much smoother experience, while the former could make the feature feel awkward and unintuitive.

If the cameras aren’t panoramic, will users be able to view what the AirPods see on another device, such as an iPhone? The feature also raises questions about whether a companion device with a display will be necessary. Without a screen, it may be difficult for wearers to confirm exactly what the cameras are seeing.

Privacy is another question Apple will likely have to address. Wearable devices with built-in cameras, including Meta’s smart glasses, have drawn criticism over concerns that people could be photographed or recorded without their knowledge or consent. While camera-equipped AirPods would differ from smart glasses, they could face similar scrutiny because they also place cameras on a device that’s worn throughout the day. How Apple plans to address those privacy concerns remains unclear.

Price is another unanswered question. The AirPods 4, Apple’s compact wireless earbuds, start at $129, while the AirPods Max, the company’s over-ear headphones, sell for $549. Depending on how much the camera hardware changes the AirPods design, a new camera-equipped model could end up costing as much as — or even more than — the AirPods Max.

If Apple does release camera-equipped AirPods later this year, a September launch would be the most likely scenario. The company has historically used its fall iPhone events to introduce major AirPods updates, including the AirPods 4 in 2024 and AirPods Pro updates in 2025. However, Apple has also announced audio products outside its September events, so a different launch window remains possible.

For more Apple news, here’s what to know about iOS 27 and everything announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

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from the after-further-review,-it-was-the-government-at-fault dept

Hail to the Chief. Our country is being run by paranoid conspiracy theorist megalomaniac who openly wishes to kick-start America’s first autocracy. Nothing that goes wrong is ever the president’s fault. It’s always the fault of officials with insufficient loyalty or the criminal acts of people out to get him.

Trump decided the Lincoln Reflecting Pool needed a makeover. Not because it had several long-term issues that had been inadequately addressed over the years but because Trump wanted to make it look more Trump-y. That meant draining the entire thing to apply a layer of “American flag blue,” a hue Trump made up on the spot to demonstrate he was more American than any American who had come before him.

Rather than turn this over to the people best qualified to do the job via a bidding/vetting process, Trump handed out a no-bid contract to an entity that called Mar-a-Lago home and whose owner had thrown some money Trump’s way in the past. The company hired to do this is headed by a long-term Trump donor and sports a name that would become eerily prescient once it was through botching the job: Greenwater Solutions.

Shortly after the refurb, the water in the pool turned a bright shade of green, due to the wholly expected explosion of algae, thanks to the conditions created by the pool shutdown/startup and vastly encouraged by the “American flag blue” now coating the bottom of the reflecting pool.

Shortly after that, the pool sealant began floating to the surface, prompting curious visitors to grab chunks of the “American flag blue” material that bubbled up as Interior Department personnel tried to beat science at its own game by flooding the “Greenwater Green” pool with hydrogen peroxide.

Trump then claimed — without facts in evidence — that the green tint and floating sealant were the actions of vandals, presumably related to the antifa or whatever. In the space of a single press conference, Trump turned a 150-foot flaw in the sealant into a 350-foot “gash” that could only have been created by anti-Trump vandals.

Then the arrests began. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro promised to punish anyone caught “vandalizing” the pool to the full effect of the law. Department of Interior boss Doug Burgum mindlessly repeated Trump’s wild speculation, claiming he too was in possession of “evidence” of criminal pool fuckery. Trump continued to do what Trump always does: engage in stream-of-consciousness responses when asked to provide proof of his accusations.

Former US Olympics team member David Hearn was the first to be officially indicted for daring to touch pieces of the broken pool. That case fell apart almost immediately. First, the government’s own witness testified during the grand jury proceedings that anything Hearn grabbed from the pool was the result of defective workmanship, rather than evidence of malicious vandalism.

This prompted Hearn’s legal team to demand transcripts of the grand jury proceedings. After all, if the unnamed government employee had testified that the pool would have been falling apart with or without Hearn’s brief interaction, the resulting indictment meant government prosecutors seemingly ignored the fact that it takes at least $1,000 of damage to support a federal vandalism charge.

Well, it’s all over now, at least in terms of prosecution. (The government will likely be contending with a civil rights lawsuit in the near future.) None other than lead prosecutor Jeanine Pirro has admitted there’s no basis for the criminal charges against Hearn.

Not only that, but the DOJ’s dismissal [PDF] specifically calls out the botched pool repair job performed by another one of Trump’s no-bid buddies (Greenwater Solutions did the filtration/drainage, while Atlantic Industrial Coatings redid the pool surface). It does this as it seeks to purge itself of any blame for pursuing yet another transparently vindictive prosecution to appease the president.

[I]t was not until after the return of the indictment, that the DOI provided additional documents to the USAO-DC indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings (“AIC”), and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026. It was not until after these documents were produced that USAO-DC first became aware of information showing that the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented by DOI. Indeed, USAO DC could only rely (on the information provided by DOI that the damage was entirely caused by vandals, including the defendant in this case, David Hearn…

This is US Attorney Jeanine Pirro throwing the Interior Department under the bus in hopes of saving her job. That’s not going to work.

First of all, even after this filing Trump still insists the damage was due to vandalism, despite all evidence on the record showing otherwise.

That’s Donald Trump “truthing” the untruth:

I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned in giant letters on it, and other elements of the surrounding area. There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS! President DJT

Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States insisting that his made up fantasy, that no one ever believed was true, is true in the face of a filing from his own hand-picked attorneys at the Justice Department. One would think that the president accusing a US Attorney of lying to a federal court would be a big deal, except everyone let’s it pass because they know he’s full of shit.

The same goes for Doug Burgum, the current Interior Secretary, who similarly insists this is vandalism despite evidence to the contrary, much of it produced by his own agency.

That’s Burgum tweeting:

The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool. Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool.

The Reflecting Pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial and dates back to 1922.

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@POTUS cares deeply about protecting our sacred national monuments and his leadership has led the restoration of our Nation’s Capital by Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Again.

Intentional damage done to the Reflecting Pool is no different than defacing any one of our other national monuments.

We won’t back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.

So the US Attorney is saying that the Interior Department provided the DOJ with evidence that it was the shoddy workmanship of Trump’s hand-picked contractors. And the Secretary of the Interior makes a public statement saying that’s false?

This administration can’t get its story straight, and that’s going to come back to haunt them in court.

Finally, Pirro’s still likely to face some bench-slapping over this case because she can’t pretend to have just heard of it now when her office definitely heard the damage was due to a “botched installation” from a government witness and yet still charged ahead with securing an indictment against David Hearn.

The DOJ says it’s wrong. But it won’t dismiss the charges against Hearn with prejudice, which means it can still take another swing at this if Trump makes it clear that needs to happen. But what’s admitted here means it will most likely need to abandon any pending criminal cases against alleged vandals if it expects the court to grant it any form of good faith going forward.

Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.

That’s the DOJ’s own admission, which is now on the public record. If it continues to pursue criminal charges, it can’t possibly expect any subsequent indictments to survive a cursory review in court. Pirro’s office needs to cut and run ASAP. And Pirro should know that it’s too late to save her job. She fucked up when she decided to tell the court the truth. And that’s something Trump will see as unforgivable.

But now any American who actually wants to know the truth about the Reflecting Pool debacle can read for themselves what the administration itself has to say about the matter when it came time to actually reveal to the court what they knew. If they’d rather believe Trump and Burgum, they can. But they can’t pretend the only evidence on the record shows the Reflecting Pool fell apart because Trump handed millions of tax dollars to donors and personal friends, rather than actually try to get the job done right the first time.

Filed Under: asshats, david hearn, dc, department of interior, doj, donald trump, jeanine pirro, reflecting pool, trump administration

Companies: atlantic industrial coatings, greenwater solutions

Rubin Observatory just released its first major science image from the LSST Camera, and the frame is dense with distant light. Astronomers stacked hundreds of separate exposures of the COSMOS field and ended up with more than half a million galaxies plus more than 50,000 stars in a single deep view.

COSMOS is located in the constellation Sextans, a patch of sky chosen years ago because it looks almost straight out of the plane of the Milky Way. This orientation keeps us relatively free of nearby stars and dust, allowing us to see galaxies whose light has been traveling light-years for billions of years, and it is this light that we wish to investigate. Hubble ended up looking at the same point of sky in 2003. However, since then, a cascade of telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum have examined COSMOS, establishing it as the standard reference field in space. Rubin’s new composite provides more reach, depth, and the possibility of multiple trips over the next ten years.

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The 3.2-gigapixel LSST camera, which is the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy, captured the light we’re gazing at. It sits atop the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope and consists of 189 individual sensors arranged on a focal plane the size of a small vehicle. It can capture a large area of sky in one image, and by layering hundreds of separate shots taken between April 2025 and January 2026, what appeared invisible at first began to emerge.

The final image shows spiral galaxies with thin, winding arms, with all the delicate detail visible, smooth ellipticals, pairs of galaxies caught in the middle of a collision, and a smattering of very red galaxies that are so far away that the light we’re seeing has been on its way since the universe was young. There are a few bright foreground stars from our galaxy visible here and there, as well as soft wisps of interstellar dust known as galactic cirrus.

This is the second release, with the first catalogue and image based on LSST Camera observations. The whole set covers approximately 3,000 square degrees, or nearly one-sixth of what we can see in the southern sky from the Chilean mountain site where it is located. COSMOS is one of the sites Rubin will return to more than usual. They should be able to gain even more depth by making additional visits, exposing fainter galaxies and better detail, as well as perhaps catching things like supernovae as they happen, which are all temporary.

Bob Blum, director of Rubin Observatory at NSF NOIRLab, noted that the deep image is only the start for this field. Repeated observations over the next several years are expected to deliver large numbers of transient and variable objects for the community to study. Phil Marshall, deputy director at SLAC, emphasized that the long history of prior data on COSMOS makes the field an especially useful testing ground as scientists prepare to work with the full survey stream.

If you’ve got the Ted Lasso outfit, moustache, and attitude, you can win custom Beats headphones and exclusive soccer scarves at Apple’s look-alike contest in New York City on Thursday.

“Ted Lasso” is, undoubtedly, Apple TV‘s first breakout hit and an unofficial mascot for the service itself. And, just as it’s proven in the past, Apple is fully on board when it comes to fun promotions for the series.

This time, it’s decided to hold an in-person Ted Lasso look-alike contest on August 6 from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm EDT at its Fifth Avenue location. Contestants are encouraged to come forth and prove that they’re Tedder than the rest for a chance at a unique prize or two.

According to the official Gathering of the Teds page, contestants will compete in a three-round contest, with eliminations in each round.

The first round, known as “Ted Energy,” will require contestants to introduce themselves in character and dance for two minutes. The contestants will be judged on their “Ted Energy,” costume commitment, and level of participation, and only 10 semi-finalists will advance to round 2.

The second round, known as the “Head Coach” round, will see contestants participate in a Ted Lasso trivia round, another round of costume judging, and a crowd-based mustache judging. Only three contestants will advance to the third round.

Round three, the “Ted Talk” round, will require contestants to deliver a 30-45 second pep talk to the crowd, endure another costume judging, and have their stage presence evaluated.

Four prizes will be given out. All three finalists will get a custom soccer scarf, while the first place winner will also receive custom Beats headphones.

According to the contest page, the approximate retail value of all four prizes is $300. That likely means that the headphones will be Beats Solo 4 with a custom “Ted Lasso” wrap, which retails for just under $200.

The scarves, on the other hand will likely be similar, if not exactly the same as the Ted Lasso A.F.C. Richmond Crest scarf available through the official “Ted Lasso” merchandise store. It retails for $32.95.

Ted Lasso A.F.C. Richmond Crest scarf

Again, this is an in-person contest only, so you’ll want to make sure you’re at Apple Fifth Avenue on Thursday, August 6, if you wish to participate.

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Fresh images of the Pixel 11 Pro in matte black have landed just days before Google’s Made by Google event, and they show a phone that finally matches the finish many people have wanted for years.

Obsidian is becoming the rumored name for this version of the phone. The new matte coating goes across the entire frame and even over the edges of the camera bar, which is a significant upgrade over the previous Pro model’s shining rails. Those polished rails used to be a fingerprint magnet, attracting any stray reflections that contrasted with the rest of the glasswork. With the black model being completely matte from edge to edge, anyone who prefers a shiny finish will have to go with one of the other colors. It appears that selecting Obsidian is the only method to achieve that matte finish.

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The images, which came from respected tipster Evan Blass, are eerily similar to the official marketing images, which show the phone from various angles and make the flatter, less reflective surface easy to spot. Meanwhile, the Camera Bar has been lowered from last year, giving the phone a more streamlined appearance while retaining the original three-lens layout.

However, from what we can see, the rest of the phone remains largely unchanged. It retains the same 6.3-inch Super Actua LTPO OLED screen and resolution as last year’s 10 Pro, but peak brightness increases to an impressive 3600 nits. Instead of last year’s G2, the Tensor G6 chip will take over. It will be linked with the Titan M3 security chip like before, but instead of Android 16, it will run Android 17 out of the box.

The main sensor remains a 50 megapixel unit, while the ultrawide has increased from 12 to 48 megapixels and now has macro capabilities. Of course, there’s the periscope telephoto, which has another 48 megapixel lens and 5x optical zoom, up from 4x last year. Digital zoom has also been improved, now at 120x instead of 100x. Unfortunately, the battery life suffers slightly, dropping to 4,850 mAh, and the phone itself weighs 204 grams. It is also slightly thinner, at 8.4 mm.

In terms of storage, you can get 256 GB and go all the way up to 512 GB, but it will cost you extra storage for the RAM, as you get 12 GB as normal, but if you choose the larger storage, that increases to 16 GB. As for the price, it appears that you can get one in the United States for $1,099, which is $100 more than the original price of the 10 Pro, and the final names for those additional colors may not be Dune, Light Fog, and Pine after all. While the black finish is limited to the one matte choice, Obsidian. One thing that appears to be getting an upgrade is the new lighting effect around the camera bar, which was previously known as Pixel Glow but is now referred to as HiLight in some of the renders, and one of the leaked shots even shows off the 120x zoom for a true moon capture, implying that extra zoom is ready to be tested.

The next Made By Google event is scheduled for August 12, so these renders provide the clearest look yet at what the Pro models will look like once the covers are removed. The Obsidian finish will stand out to anyone who has spent the last several years wiping fingerprints off a slick Pixel rail, since it is nice to see that detail.