[SC 2.4.4] A gigantic glizzy
This week we have a car island, a gigantic glizzy, Grammarly playing fast and loose with variables, Turing-complete origami and more!
Volvo Island
Meet me on Volvo island.
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
It's easy: They put out shit.
Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution
Nature keeps evolving misunderstandings.
Minnesota's Experimental City of the Future that Never Got Built
I'd love a show with AppleTV level production values set in this city, and no, Fallout does not count.
When We Take The Streets
" Protesting the Trump Administration is still legal, but there’s a lot you should know before you take your rights out for some exercise."
America, the Isolated
"What replaces it? A medievalized global economy, where nations are castles, not nodes."
You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land
Bugs… is shrimps??!?!
Hot Dog Hell: A Tasting Tour of the Saint Paul Saints’ Six-Foot Dog
"The suggested group is 10-12, and I would stick to that religiously."
Mission to moon carries tiny red Swedish home to space
Wes Anderson adaptation to follow.
Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
And speaking of tiny houses.
Is sending Factorio to your competitors' engineers a cost-effective means of sabotage?
This is fiendishly brilliant.
But what if I really want a faster horse?
"Netflix in 2012 was a super fast horse."
A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
[[ Dead internet theory intensifies ]]
Conrad Haas
Your periodic reminder that people in the past were just as smart as we are now.
Flat origami is Turing Complete
A good link to trundle out next time some engineering dinkus tries to get all high and mighty about what is and is not a programming language.
We're in for a rough ride as an industry
I like Baldur's writing a lot. This is no exception.
Et tu, Grammarly?
grammarly why
The rise of end times fascism
Every sentence of this is quotable.
A German experiment gave people a basic monthly income. The effect on their work ethic was surprising
At a certain point you can't stop calling these things experiments, since they almost always are an overwhelming success.
When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
I hope to live long enough to see these people brought before The Hague.
Mastodon Exit Interview
I've been trying to dip my toe back into the Mastodon waters lately, but this post rings true about a lot of my feelings on the social network.
Why So Many Southern Porches Have Blue Ceilings and How to Copy It
Well, now I want a blue porch ceiling!