Chærete again. I’ve been reading Snow Crash for the first time recently, and it’s absolutely rewired my brain. I suspect i shall have more to say on it when i finish it — in which event you’ll be able to find it on the brand new “Stuff i’ve {watched, listened to, read, played} recently” page, if you were wondering where those posts had gone!

Anyway. Some links for you all, for the sixty-ninth time.

• An extremely good short story
• DadSwap
• News Item (6b370068-7b94-5a0e-1ded-9d1490d2ec32). Glad to see the AP getting into the analogue-horror space.
• Liminal Bingo, a participatory photo scavenger hunt
• At last, ELIZA’s source code has been unearthed!
• Clocks.dev
• Off-roading in latent space
• Jules Vernacular, a collection of France’s vernacular typography
• The Grauniad interviews Candice Odgers, who would like you all to stop being silly about kids and social media
• Apocalypse Troy: Nolan’s Odyssey and the end of civilisation
• “A Locomotive Named Big Boy Is Making Grown Men Cry” ($)
• Suika Game. It’s like 2048, but you have to combine fruit without filling up the board. Dangerously moreish.
• Cooking for Engineers®
• The End of an Era:

  Another prediction is that most readers will care about machine-vs-meat as much as they currently care about publishing imprints, which is to say almost none. Book series will go viral and readers will get wholly absorbed and where the story came from won’t matter. There will always be readers pushing beyond the fringe. That’s how fanfiction became viable. It’s why I had a career. There were readers who ignored the assholes saying, “Don’t read that, it’s self-published.” These readers asked instead, “Yeah, but is it any good?” Because of them, I got to write for a living. So I will always have a fondness for readers who search for story, ignoring the stories behind the stories.

• “Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen.”