Fund Literally Anything But This
Regarding the Iran War -> https://fundliterallyanythingbutthis.netlify.app/
Explorations
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GeoSpy – The Location Tool Everyone Should Know Exists
Everyone should know that this exists -> https://geospy.ai/
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TIL Phantom Fluency
Phantom Fluency is an idea from Terry Godier describing the feeling that you are fluent in a concept, idea, story, but when you try to explain it in depth or find the source for it…you can’t.
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Karen Berger on The Idea of Wilderness
Karen Berger is one of my favorite travel writers. I came across a foreword of hers explaining the idea of Wilderness that we (Americans) have constructed over the last 100 years in America’s Great Hiking Trails. I’ve read a lot of explainers of Wilderness, but this has to be one of the best I’ve ever seen.
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TIL about the Three Hares motif
The Three Hares Motif is this weird, fun enigma -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_hares
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The future of country music is here, and it’s AI
Sensationalist title, but I like how it digs into the specific *jobs* in the music industry that are going away -> The future of country music is here, and it’s AI
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Wait But Why on The sights and sounds of Bhutan
Lovely post about an intriguing country -> The sights and sounds of Bhutan — Wait But Why
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Why are Americans Unhappy? by Chris Arnade Walks the World
Yeah – I think this is broadly right -> Why are Americans Unhappy? – Chris Arnade Walks the World
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Why RSS matters
This -> Why RSS matters
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I love AI. Why doesn’t everyone?
But it’s ok to say, “yes, I want to mitigate the negative effects of this massive change, but also, this technology is really freaking cool.”
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TIL about The Cagots
The Cagots, a minority in France whose persecution began in the eleventh century and continued well into the last one….that no one knew how to recognize or why they were persecuted.
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Forty News – The News Cycle from This Day, Forty Years Ago
Brilliant performance art -> Forty News. Events are important, but the daily news is not the medium to understand them.
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The Five Great Forests of Mesoamerica
I absolutely love this short video from the Cornell School of Ornithology.
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How I Made a Simple Advent Candle Block
Ever since we started observing Advent, I’ve tried making our own candle arrangement. A couple of years ago, a large…
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Google’s Gemini 3 Passed My Deep Local Knowledge Test
I’ve been using LLM projects before ChatGPT even came out. I was using OpenAI’s GPT 3 and GPT 2 back…
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Wyoming Has Fewer People Than 116 Counties
I find this map via Mapper_X absolutely insane. And the first thing that comes to mind is the Equal Representation…
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What advice do I give to my students?
Very good career advice -> What advice do I give to my students? by Michael Levin
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5 Ways To Add Randomness To Life
The Internet has added an astounding diversity of choices to everyday life…but somehow the more choices that we move to…
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