[SC 2.4.4] It's a surprisingly small internet sometimes
I was pleasantly surprised to get a shoutout on People and Blogs by way of Anne Sturdivant's interview.
It's a surprisingly small internet sometimes! Anne is lovely, and you should check out her stuff.
Temporal Liminality
"In a topological configuration that China Miéville would envy, the Hopi Reservation is entirely contained within the Navajo Nation."
Scientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth
MOON BACKUP
‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
Neat!
Parasites Are Everywhere. Why Do So Few Researchers Study Them?
"Scientists often call parasites the “dark matter” of the animal world: They’re unseen but incredibly important."
Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius violins from modern instruments
This is the violin equivalent of the cheap versus expensive wine taste test.
OneMillionScreenshots
Delivers what it promises.
Project 2025's Organizational Network
Visualization of the infernal rat king that is Project 2025.
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission
Holy shit.
University of Houston Researchers Create New Treatment and Vaccine for Flu and Various Coronaviruses
Holy shit.
Can an AI make a data-driven, visual story?
I really like The Pudding's work, and I really enjoyed this.
Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don’t Know What To Do About It
lmao
We can thank Hideki Naganuma for putting Malcolm X in a Sonic game
Not content with Michael Jackson, the Sonic franchise decides to go even harder.
There’s a Tool to Catch Students Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn’t Released It.
😑
Public toilets are vanishing and that’s a civic catastrophe
What if we had the WPA, but for public toilet infrastructure?
Former Kansas police chief to face criminal charge after newspaper raid, prosecutors say
Good.
Mother Shipton's Cave
This is life imitating fantasy in the most British way ever.
Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser
Fortunately Mozilla has a really strong sense of product devele—oh.
How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election
Hey, if you're still on Twitter: why?
An update on invokers: Invoker commands in HTML
Invokers feels like something that should have been part of the web platform since the get-go, and I'm really excited to see it take form.
Disability rights and experiential use of psychedelics in clinical research and practice
"Considering disability in the debate on personal psychedelic use is not just an empirical scientific concern. It is also a normative social justice concern that is a necessary part of growing efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine."
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
This is, wow.
Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website’s Archives
Mood.
America's 7-Elevens to become 'Japanese style'
Yesssssssssss. Shamelessly stolen from Melanie Richard's Learning Log.
Seon Feldesis Evan-Jerry-on - YouTube
Some things I include here just for me.