[SC 2.4.4] Achieve pure smooth brain flow state
I completely spaced on sending this last night. In my defense I was trying to achieve pure smooth brain flow state by burying myself in a video game.
Listen to the first sounds ever known to be made by sharks
It sounds like it's sparking up.
What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word?
I don't think we're going to bounce back from all this damage.
How is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI?
"I’ve been trying to make sense of why this kind of theft feels different, more invasive."
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I really like this proposal?
'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
I'm in the wrong gig.
Why Smartfood Popcorn Doesn’t Hit Like It Used To
Fix your hearts popcorn or die.
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
And speaking of fixing hearts.
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
Cool. Cool cool cool.
GAN-generated Chairs
Delivers what it promises.
Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests
This is right up there with baby sign language in terms of how weird and cool humans are.
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees
This is the equivalent of us discovering that sometimes having a piano falling on us is good, actually.
Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life
HELL YEAH
Protesting Under Fascism
News you can use.
United States Disappeared Tracker
This is real. This is happening.
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
"There’s room for both in the scene, because it is werdly conservative and open at the same time."
Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs
"It’s easier to feign apathy than to admit how much energy goes into a project that might get killed in a Slack thread."
My Thoughts on Asynchronous Accessibility APIs
If you are interested in the nuts and bolts of screen reader stuff: When Jamie Teh speaks, you listen.
Bored of it
This struck a chord.
TV garden
Free live TV streaming all over the globe.
New words from around the world in the OED March 2025 update
Gigil!
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I can't describe this for you. It needs to be experienced.
You Can Taste Cake in Virtual Reality With This New Device
Let them taste cake.
The case against conversational interfaces
"Why should I have to describe my desired action using natural language, when I could simply press a button or keyboard shortcut?"
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
I know this is a soft sell for iA Writer, a Markdown editor I continuously bounce off of, but also I love me a good meta-analysis.
Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech
I know I harp on "AI" a lot in this newsletter, but there is actually a lot of non-LLM based work happening in the margins that is actually useful and cool.
How a Forgotten Bean Could Save Coffee From Extinction
I have been drinking coffee like it is not going to be around forever, so this was nice to read.
A new colour of cat has been discovered
New cat just dropped.
The East Coast and West Coast have differently sized and shaped sticks of butter
Huh.