August 10, 2025

Weekly Distractions for August 10, 2025

🧠 Links

• Clever

  • A way to detect faked videos which, to me, is a hopeful development.

  Interstellar

  • A contest to design generation ships (star ships)

  TTRPG

  • Everything old is new again

  Happy

  • This looks like a nice place to camp

  Cars

  • VIN Numbers Explained

  Mythology

  • Just read Stephen Fry’s Mythos (greek mythology) which pointed me to theoi.com.

📖 Currently Reading

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert