• The New Statesman interviews Thomas Heatherwick, Britain’s most divisive designer
• Bajini: “It has been argued that the account of the Baijini in the Aboriginal folklore are in fact a mythological reflection of the experiences of some Aboriginals who have traveled to Sulawesi with the Macassans and came back.”
• Man who talked down hospital bomber says would-be attacker asked for a cuddle
• How the North East almost became a linear supercity. T. Dan Smith is a fascinating figure and i really need to learn more about him.
• The Utopia of the Family Computer
• Oryzo
• A Landing a Day — A blog, regularly running since 2009, which must have been surgically targeted to be Right In My Wheelhouse:

  In this formerly once-a-day blog, then pretty much a once-a-week blog and now an every-other-week blog if I’m lucky, I use an app that provides a random latitude and longitude that puts me somewhere in the continental United States (the lower 48). I call this “landing.”

• Project Backbone, an interactive globe showing the physical infrastructure of the internet. We don’t tend to think of the internet as having a corporeal existence, but it’s all around you if you look!
• “Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs.“
• Meet the man making music with his brain implant. God, i love living far enough in the future that this is just a normal headline.
• My journey to the microwave alternate timeline
• On the abyss that is Mr Beast
• What artworks do museums think of as “their Mona Lisa”?
• Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum, a Jewish soldier in the Warsaw Uprising who may not have actually existed
• Emymin.net’s Cool Websites and Links — Came across this in my backlinks, naturally.
• Thnickels! They’re nickels, but thick. My jaw dropped when i saw the date “2025”.
• Thær — I dunno what this is, but the vibes are cool!
• Vijay’s Vibes — Click to go to a random link, mostly small 3D web toys
• …Like this thing!
• Making food out of thin air
• The Cercle Hermaphroditos was the earliest known transgender advocacy group in the U.S.… see also Jennie June, whose article is if nothing else a fascinating window into the time before our modern LGBT terminology was standardised
• “Prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking”, or, why not to launch first and fix all your bugs later
• Where is it like to be a language model?

And, to finish things off, here’s an Artemis II quickfire round! First, this picture of “Earthset” was the fastest i’ve ever switched to a new desktop background:

• Artemis II mission tracker/dashboard
• If anything happened to Rise the plushie i would kill everyone in this room and then myself.
• Christina Koch vs. Rise
• Carroll (crater). I teared up a little watching the feed when they all went in to give Reid Wiseman a hug.