Science
- The Greenland crater (this is old though, before the discovery of the second one)
- I had no idea about the Neolithic bottleneck
- On “Mycelial Connections”
While it’s true that humans and animals tend to spread the spores of the mushrooms they make off with, thus aiding mushrooms in propagating genetic offspring, I sometimes wonder who’s cultivating whom here.
Tools for thought
- Getting beyond paper and “linear media”
- The “computer revolution” might still be a ways off
- Going down a rabbit hole with Emacs
- Someone’s “computing museum”
Thinking
- An introduction to Rene Girard
- The Moldbug is back, this time on Substack
Mediums
- The concept of a young people’s concert is worth bringing back
- Randomly came across an indie artist on YT (video above)
- I’m coming across all kinds of new concepts these days: Solarpunk
Programming
- Optimizing Clojure
- On how Programming Culture is broken
- … and on the state of performance and quality
- Demonstrating conditions in Common Lisp
- Programming languages as objects in nature
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