interesting links roundup #27
reading #
- Can a Politician Be This Kinky?
- Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur
- The Commenters
- The Doxing of Jane Doe
- Grimes’s Secret Psy Opera Pop-Up
- Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
- How a 14-year-old kid became the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion
- The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground
- The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything + Part 2: SimWorld + Part 3: The Sims
- Limes, Lemons, and Scurvy
- Murano Parsnips: The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo
- The Mystery of Dark Oxygen
- Nine Inch Snails
- One Couple’s Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer
- Paid Phones
- Physicists Trap a Single Antimatter Particle for a Month
- The very bad ad for the world’s very first laptop
- We Infiltrated a Police Union Convention in Las Vegas
- We’re Addicted to Social Media. How Do We Get Sober?
- We’re Learning to Live with Waymos. It’s Going Weird
- What’s Under Your Feet in New York City?
- Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?
- Why Is AI-Generated Language So Hard to Understand?
tools/reference #
other #
- Bicycles Built Based on People’s Attempts to Draw Them From Memory
- Fontemon
- Planet Money: Where all those weird new drinks are coming from
- The Real Kevin Bacon
- Whittle
- Wikipedia: Analog hole
- Wikipedia: Crypto-trading hamster
- Wikipedia: Ghost characters
- Wikipedia: Lists of people who disappeared
- Wikipedia: Safety orange