[SC 2.4.4] Buying a pair of jeans
This week I wrote about my ruined brain and how it relates to buying a pair of jeans. I also have a ton of links this week, so hopefully something here catches your interest!
Everyone Watches TV with Subtitles Now. How’d That Happen?
The other bit about this is some inside baseball that it's net cheaper to make blanket rules that normalize bad audio, but also I am here for things getting more and better subtitles.
A Font Inspired by Egyptian Streets That Addresses a Problem for Arabic Designers
Arabic typography is never not interesting.
Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
I did not come here to be attacked like this.
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power
Well this sure is something.
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
This simultaneously generates feelings of excitement and being ancient.
Three grand soups
Note: it's four soups.
Lessons From the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse
Anyways, Second Life celebrated its 20 year anniversary this year.
Love Trees: The Science of Inosculation
"This somewhat common forest phenomenon happens when 2 different parts of either 1 or 2 different individual trees initially grow separately, but at some point in their life they came into contact with one another."
French Govt. Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers
That's a big ol' uh oh.
The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
Speaking of big ol' uh ohs.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
This is a long read, but also spot-on.
Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
Octopuses are rad as heck.
Judge rules farmer’s thumbs-up emoji counts as contract agreement
👍
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
"We’ve closed the loop on this one; great job everybody!"
Descriptive Formulae in Scottish and Irish Wonder Tales
Language might be a prison, but it can also be a paintbrush.
Noctis, The 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated From The World
This is so weird and sad and haunting.
New Low in the Accessibility “Industry:” Overlay Company Sues Globally-Recognized Accessibility Expert
Hey, if you use Audio Eye: don't.