- A cool explainer of infrared photography, with even cooler photos
- Elizabeth Saloka’s painted rock snacks
- On grey literature
- The New York Times on minimal-comfort feeding, an emerging middle-ground in dementia care between prolonging unwilling lives and euthanasia
- Apocalypse Early Warning System: “In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime.”
- Guy Walks Into a Bar
- “Mixed media film about my cat — ‘The Real You’”. Absolutely delightful in every way.
- Britain’s deer are thriving. It’s a nightmare for the countryside. (I’ve always wanted to try hunting… maybe if i can tell myself it’s an ecological good?)
- Natural-language autoencoders, a solution to the problem of “what is the AI really thinking1 right now?”
- Guess the Party, where you have to guess based on face alone who’s standing for which party in the English local elections. Greens are the easiest to guess; Tories the hardest.
- Moth in Relay, a delightful little net-art project asking “what if Grace Hopper’s bug never left the tape?”
- Barter Books boss funds landmark U.S. artwork (okay, yes, it’s in small-town Missouri, but still)
- Calgacus-MLX: Hide a meaningful text inside another using language models
- Retyping a Library
- Halupedia, the entirely AI-hallucinated encyclopædia. The Kentucky Gnome Computer Incident is my small personal contribution…
- Putting AI in charge of a greenhouse in Colorado. Absolutely bonkers — and probably a future replacement for the now-inactive “Claude grows a tomato” page on the Linkroll…
- The UK needs a new “creative director”
- How a recording mistake created the sound of Phil Collins
- 🚨️ BREAKING: 🚨️ The State of Oregon has purchased a waterfall from a community of Benedictine monks
- You should have a kitchen slide rule
- In 1626 a giant explosion at a gunpowder factory in Peking killed twenty thousand people and noöne knows why.
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