interesting links roundup #18
reading #
- A few things to consider before committing a museum heist
- Angelicism’s Girls
- The Day of Two Noons
- Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
- Don’t Take the Auditor to the Strip Club
- Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
- First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself
- Gertrude Stein’s Love Language
- How Soon Will the Seas Rise?
- Imitation Ivory and the Power of Play
- James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
- The Man Who Sells Unsellable New York Apartments
- Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
- The Mysterious Math Behind the Brazilian Butt Lift
- Munich’s surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes
- Predictions markets and the suckerfication crisis
- Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication
- The Sky Is Falling, The Web Is Dead
- Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
- The story behind LA’s surprisingly horny Abraham Lincoln statue
- The Substance
- The ‘Toy Story’ You Remember
- What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
- What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High
- What people get wrong about Elizabethan English
- While vaping is not risk-free, it is less harmful than tobacco
- 37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours
tools/reference #
- Poline: Esoteric Color Palette Generator
- The Rasterbator
- Super Snowflake Maker
- UCSB Cylinder Audio Arhchive