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What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power,...
What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power, Control — and Human Beings. “As any parent of a toddler knows, being morally liable for something that is incapable of...
Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes .
Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes.
How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?
This video from Kurzgesagt is a great little primer on how the human brain stores memories. Memory is one of the strangest abilities you possess. Your brain uses an incredibly...
From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the...
From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the 250 most influential books in United States history”. Incl. Neuromancer, The Fire Next Time, Nickel and Dimed, The Power Broker, and...
New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time...
New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time Sensitive, “a podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time”.
Amazing Newspaper Ad Highlighting Period Poverty
To draw attention to the millions of girls who cannot afford period products, the MENstruation Foundation ran a unique advertisement in three major South African newspapers. Readers of The Star,...
Uncovered , a site for judging books by their first...
Uncovered, a site for judging books by their first pages. “No cover. No bestseller sticker, no celebrity book club, no BookTok trend. You read the opening of a real book,...
The Resonant Computing Manifesto . “We can now build...
The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the...
What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like...
What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like on Tatooine)?
A few highlights from a collection of lovely...
A few highlights from a collection of lovely woodblock-printed sugoroku game boards from Japan. “The gameboards use stories and maps to teach children history and geography.”
The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)
Nicholas Rougeux, whose work I have featured here before, has published a complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history published in the early-to-mid 19th-century. As...
Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What...
Legibility of effort in the LLM age. “What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance whether...
Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal
These have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in...
Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...
Ted Gioia: “Works like the Odyssey are ritualistic and trance-inducing. They are propelled by music and driven by rhythm. They cross a border beyond literature, and enter something more transcendent...
Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...
Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs: “using AI as a research assistant, why he keeps a tech-free zone in the mornings for deep thinking, and why...
The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...
The Moist Towelette Online Museum. Live moist and prosper. 🖖💦
The Types of People to Keep Around
Molly Burford, author of Moments to Hold Close, writes list poetry (is that a thing?) about the kinds of people that you want in your life. From Types Of People...
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online. “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace...
Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...
Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I...
Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...
Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women Rebuilt It. “It’s not a pretty picture for climate communication and climate journalism right now.” You can check out the new site...