[SC 2.4.4] Gives me the squick
I was visiting Bellevue for a work thing, and got a day-long migraine. It was likely the result of a combination of lack of sleep, pressure and timezone changes, and pollen.
During the post-migraine euphoria period I had an a-ha moment about another reason Windows Recall gives me the squick.
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
"epistemological collapse" is a great turn of phrase.
The Secret History of Paris’s Catacomb Mushrooms
Adds to the potential exit tech job list
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups
More like this, please.
What It’s Like Finding Your Nonconsensual AI Clone Online
Less like this, please.
Donating forks to the dining hall
"Finally, I decided to do something about it: I bought 180 forks."
Bizarre armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective
Dudes rock.
Early cave art reveals elusive 'Higgs bison'
Made ya look.
Wadzilla
"Wadzilla is a tool used to convert DOOM WAD files to ZIL text output to facilitate playing DOOM on an Infocom Z-Machine. That is, to play DOOM in Zork."
Cost and Benefit Analysis of Mitigating, Tracking, and Remediating Orbital Debris (PDF)
Pew! Pew! Pew!
Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals
Whoah.
abandoned blogs
A gallery of dead blogs.
A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome
This is very, very good news.
The Doubts Were Not Reasonable
"For the past eight years, a lot of essentially simple truths were treated as matters of paralyzing complexity."
CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue
Another in the series of articles suggesting this idea.
This legendary DC Comics style guide was nearly lost for years—now you can buy it
Oh no, my wallet.
The Moral Economy of the Shire
"Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat, and there’s rarely much left over. How does this jibe with the leisurely lives of simple pleasure that our Hobbit heroes seem to enjoy? "