interesting links roundup #10
reading #
- Animals as chemical factories
- Are “algorithms” making us boring?
- Big Food Gets Jacked
- Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?
- Century-Scale Storage
- Crypto trader kills himself on X live to create a meme coin
- A Dark History of the World’s Smallest Island Nation
- The End of Children
- The Getty Family’s Trust Issues
- The hardest working font in Manhattan
- How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
- I Tasted Honda’s Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape (And I will do it again unless someone stops me.)
- If You Ever Stacked Cups In Gym Class, Blame My Dad
- The Kiss That Changed Video Games
- Patterns in confusing explanations
- Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia’s Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits
- The Real-Life Consequences of Silicon Valley’s AI Obsession
- Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed
- ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
- The “Unhinged Bisexual Woman” Novel
- Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE
- What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish
- When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
- Who Killed the Footless Goose?
- The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers
tools/reference #
- Ableton: Learning Synths
- Cover Your Tracks: See how trackers view your browser
- European word translator
- OneLook
- Refuge Restrooms
- River Runner Global