February 9, 2025

Crypto

• Grifters Gonna Grift is the easy title, but this is really just a typical memecoin-pump-and-dump.

Useful

• I am definitely late to the party for the Marginalia Search Engine, but it looks intriguingly noncommercial and non-AI-oriented.

Sci-fi

• Here is an ongoing class on the Octavia Butler.

Black Studies

• I found the Octavia Butler class from the HillmanTok Curriculum page.

Language

• I am sure somebody needs this game for learning Cantonese.

AI

• A bunch of scrolls from ancient Pompeii decyphered using AI.

Wildlife

• TL/DR: there are 20 quadrillion ants on earth(Actually its a pretty short article)
• The Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed.

Pretty Colors

• Palettes from various pieces of pixel art.

Internet

• The Ladybird Browser built from scratch and independent of both Chrome and Firefox.

Music

• Do you like jazz?

Food

• What even, is a perfectly cooked egg?. The article, in figure 4, has a nice graphical explanation and, indeed, it seems like a very nice egg with a jellied, soft yolk and a cooked white, however, achieving this requires 30 minutes and way too many steps; at least compared to breaking the egg into a glass, adding a half cup of water then nuking for 30 seconds.

Cool

• An analog tank-simulator.

Things I want

• A utility bike with two chains and two gears.

Archeaology

• A newly discovered pyramid in Peru.