[SC 2.4.4] Just another way of being
I've known I had Aphantasia for a little while now, but learning about Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) from this article made a lot of things click all at once.
It's really nice to not feel like I'm somehow broken anymore, and instead know it's just another way of being.
The Holidome was a one-stop vacation destination. Why couldn’t it keep up with the times?
Sense memory unlocked.
4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images
blows the dust off my Be the Villain talk
Pythagoras: Everyone knows his famous theorem, but not who discovered it 1000 years before him
The only thing older than history is erasure.
Nagoro, Village of Dolls
Happy October! 🎃
No Thanks to the Academy
"Here the story of the English Academy ends, prematurely concluded for a reason almost as arbitrary as the haphazard unfolding of the English language itself: the chance outbreak of plague."
Even Sumerians Had Homework
If a future historian found my math homework I would be resurrected just to die of embarrassment.
The Mushroom Boom
Mushroom link.
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips
"Our data therefore provide strong evidence that when some (but not all) people flip a fair coin, it tends to land on the same side it started."
How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
"A new Rest of World analysis shows that generative AI systems have tendencies toward bias, stereotypes, and reductionism when it comes to national identities, too."
AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go?
In case the previous link didn't hammer this home.
Startups’ Tech For Displaying Ads On Walgreens Cooler Doors Is On Fire…Literally
So the opaque thing that covers the transparent thing gets blocks you from seeing the things inside it sometimes also catches on fire, got it.
Index of Aesthetics
Tag yourself, I'm Utopian Scholastic.
Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird implemented in MacOS Finder
hax
Mini Tokyo 3D
Highly recommend clicking a train, then picking the bird tracking mode to zone out.
Greenwashing and the COP28 Website
"Failing to prioritise this on the global stage, while not the most problematic aspect of the summit, feels like a missed opportunity."
Building a 42-inch E Ink Art Frame
I NEED IT