interesting links roundup #9
reading #
- After Authenticity
- Are overdoses down and why?
- Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
- Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution.
- A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew
- The deep ocean photographer that captured a ’living fossil’
- The Forgotten—and Incredibly Important—History of the Abortion Pill
- From TED To PERNOCTATED, Scrabble’s Best Player Knows No Limits
- Good-bye, Pamela Paul
- How the Capybara Won My Heart—and Almost Everyone Else’s
- The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
- It’s Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny
- The Leaning Tower of New York
- Let’s talk about bird tongues
- The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
- Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
- The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue Raspberry Flavored
- NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing
- On Development: The cloud is made of concrete
- One election takeaway: voters hate temporary safety nets
- People With Parents With Money
- Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret
- The Secret History of Risotto
- The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman
- Taking a closer look at AI’s supposed energy apocalypse
- The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 (+ Part 2)
- What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
- 2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
tools/reference #
- How to Stop Hiccups
- The Old Family Photos Project: Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual
- Three Hundred [Game] Mechanics