May 4, 2025

Sunday May 4th 2025

🧠 Links

Fun

• The internet used to be fun.

Pretty Colors

• A neato color palette and how it was designed.

Miracles and Wonders

• T-Rex Leather is coming. How would you know that it wasn’t B-Taurus (Cow) Leather?

AI

• Duolingo (which I use) is gonna be an ‘AI First’ company

• AI explains the phrase: “You can’t lick a badger twice.”

• Code Hallucinations (looking at myself in the mirror)

Art

• The Girl with the Pearl Earring

Science

• Tattooed Tardigrades & etc

• Dark Energy something something Timescape!

99 Problems

• Rebooting Spain’s power grid.

Reptiles

• Snake on a Train!

Smile

• All you need to know is that this event exists.

AI

• BBC Agatha Christie Writing

Games

• Polygon is Dead. Long Live Polygon!

Music

• Wanna hear something different each time?

📖 Currently Reading

• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

• The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• On The Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L' Engle

• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins