- Tickle Me Elmo vs. a particle accelerator
- The Artemis II launch, but with “Free Bird” playing
- RavensBlight’s paper toy shop: Dozens of free papercraft you can make at home!
- A teardown of LG’s unreleased rollable phone shows why it never made it to market… but damn, does it look cool.
- Slop Sculpt! Bash together a crummy 3D model and it’ll sloppify it into anything you want. Here’s my otter:
- The end of baldness
- The New Yorker on the age of AI writing. I’m broadly open to machine learning in the arts (see posts passim), but writing is one area where most applications strike me as sad and self-defeating.1 For films, TV, games, i get it — it can ratchet down costs and make bizarre psychedelic visuals no human could ever imagine — but if you’re not even the one writing the text in your work that consists entirely of text, why bother?
- Charcuterie: an online explorer for Unicode characters. Pretty nifty interface!
- “Is my writing too wet? In defence of gloop”
- “How citations ruined science”
- HufflePuff. Alive-internet theory in action.
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“The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived.”
Features an excellent quote about the jagged frontier:
If we were ever to make contact with a truly alien intelligence, i suspect it might resemble arguing with Claude.2And the mistakes, Schmitt noted, are weird ones: There is virtually no way that a person with any training in mathematics would make such a plethora of basic errors while also succeeding in coming up with subtle, original, and correct ideas.
- Train Jazz, or, turning the New York City Subway into music
- Twelve Hungry Men
- Ex-Classics. What a wonderful idea for a site — books which used to be considered classics, but which have fallen into obscurity, hosted online for all to read anew!
- Radu Jude, the Bard of Bucharest. I must go to Romania one of these days. There’s something in the water there.
- The title “Irish Zionism” does this video an injustice. This is the spiritual successor to that video about building a giant Jeff Bezos head that detoured into Turkish hair transplants and pirate ships. But on speed.
- Local interest: Signs of Change at Grainger Market, from the recently discovered Cultured North East, a must-follow for anyone in the area.
- Kevin Kelly’s list of “contemporary heresies”. All of these are brain-melting in their own way, but, to plant my flag in the shroomy ground, i think 6, 15, 19, 29, 38, 52, and 73 are… kind of cooking?
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