Ik had vroeger een ding dat om de zoveel tijd mijn verzamelde links hier postte, maar dat werkt gelijk niet meer, en dus is het om de zoveel tijd eens als ik er aan denk. Tja.

• Human and animal skin identified by palaeoproteomics in Scythian leather objects from Ukraine | PLOS ONE
  Our results demonstrate that Scythians primarily used domesticated species such as sheep, goat, cattle, and horse for the production of leather, while the furs were made of wild animals such as fox, squirrel and feline species. The surprise discovery is the presence of two human skin samples, which for the first time provide direct evidence of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus’ claim that Scythians used the skin of their dead enemies to manufacture leather trophy items, such as quiver covers.
• Who Has Claim? 3,000 Years of Religion in the Land Between | by Lyman Stone | In a State of Migration | Oct, 2023 | Medium
  Canaan probably is a term given by Egyptians to conquered subjects, similar to why southern France is still called “Provence” based on the Roman conquest. Canaanites were a mixture of Zagros/Caucasian migrants and ancient Levantine farmers. Quasi-Canaanite ancestry is a major genetic source for Jews and Palestinians alike, though Palestinians have had less European admixture over time.
• Salad Fingers
  Salad Fingers, a strange YouTube series, is still influential after 2 decades. Its unique art style and storytelling paved the way for weird YouTube content.
• How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations – Datawrapper Blog
  Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
• Kiwi Hellenist: The camel, the rope, and the needle’s eye
  There’s no good evidence that kamilos — supposedly meaning ‘rope’ — was ever even a real word in ancient Greek.
• Different Strokes For Different Folks | Karthinks
  Emacs en muizen.
• GitHub – yairm210/Unciv: Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V
  An open source, mod-friendly Android and Desktop remake of Civ V, made with LibGDX
  Is this any good?
  Depends what you’re looking for. If you’re in the market for high-res graphics, amazing soundtracks, animations etc, I highly recommend Firaxis’s Civ-V-like game, “Civilization V”.
  If you want a small, fast, moddable, FOSS, in-depth 4X that can still run on a potato, you’ve come to the right place 🙂
• Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold – BBC Future
  Tyrian purple, the lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold. Article explores history, production, and significance of this iconic dye.
• How to (and how not to) design REST APIs · stickfigure/blog Wiki
  A guide on designing REST APIs correctly, including dos and don’ts.
• New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964–1983 – HILOBROW
  An exploration of the New Wave Science Fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which challenged traditional sci-fi conventions.
• The collapse of insects
  This Reuters data graphics explores the global decline of insect populations and its impact on the environment.
• Homage to Strong Bad – by Adam Fleming Petty
  As millennials like myself inch toward decrepitude every day, it appears inevitable that there will be legions of us in AI-run nursing homes, endlessly singing “The system is down!” as we take our medication along with our jello.
• GitHub – chenxwh/insanely-fast-whisper
  A library for performing fast signal processing operations, ideal for real-time audio and speech applications.
  TL;DR – Transcribe 300 minutes (5 hours) of audio in less than 98 seconds – with OpenAI’s Whisper Large v3. Blazingly fast transcription is now a reality!
• Slavery on the Steppes: Finnish children in the slave markets of medieval Crimea | A Blast From The Past
  When we think of slavery, we tend to think of African traffic. Yet it was not the only such trade – nor was it, before 1700, even the largest. A second great market in slaves once sullied the world, this one less well-known, vastly longer-lasting, and centred on the Black Sea ports of the Crimea. It was a huge trade in its own right; in its great years, which lasted roughly from 1200 until 1760, an estimated 6.5 million prisoners were shipped off to new and often intensely miserable lives in pla…
• UX patterns for CLI tools
  Most technical people choose GUIs not because GUIs are the best tool for the job. People choose GUIs because the CLI alternatives usually suck.
  That’s my hunch.
  In this blog post, I’ll cover good UX patterns for CLI applications.
  Furthermore, when applicable, I’ll compare how these UX patterns help developers replicate the valuable characteristics of most good GUIs.
• PicoCalc: A Fully-Functional Clone of VisiCalc
  The full-featured, high-precision spreadsheet application for the Pico-8 that nobody asked for has finally arrived! PicoCalc is a feature-complete1 clone of the 1979 classic VisiCalc, which introduced the world to an entirely new category of business application. Steve Jobs said of VisiCalc, it’s “what really drove — propelled — the Apple ][ to the success it achieved.”
• Cyborg Masochism, Homo-Fascism: Rereading Terminator 2 | POSTMODERN CULTURE
  Not sure if serious or parody: In his famous essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?” Leo Bersani argues that the “logic of homosexual desire includes the potential for a loving identification with the gay man’s enemies.” This essay argues that films like Terminator 2 enact the queer theory debates indexed in Bersani’s essay, revealing the complicity with normative standards of gendered identity in queer desire, but also exposing the queer nature of these normative standards.
• The Tomb of Ramesses I | Mused
  ‘t Is van 3D en al.
• Chinese researchers create mutant worms that make spider silk | Science | EL PAÍS English
  Scientists have introduced arachnid genes into silkworms to produce threads as strong as nylon and six times tougher than Kevlar
• Simulating History with ChatGPT – by Benjamin Breen
  Dit is zo ongelooflijk wijs — ik kan alleen maar hopen dat lesgevers dit soort dingen bij ons ook doen.
• Do Not Suffer Him to Become a Bigot | Lapham’s Quarterly
  How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain.
• We built the fastest CI in the world. It failed. Here’s what we learned – Earthly Blog
  Failing fast.
• CARI | Aesthetics
  The Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute is a collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing “consumer aesthetics” from the late mid-century, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today. The cyclical relationship between a culture’s collective attitudes and the visual qualities of the artifacts it generates is crucial to observe and consider both when attempting to create timely, meaningful artwork and when analy…
• LN 038: Semantic zoom
  A blog post discussing the importance of incorporating empathy into design and development processes to create inclusive products.
• Woolly Mammoth Coming Back to Life by 2027: De-Extinction Details
  The long-dead woolly mammoth will make its return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast.
• Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him | Fantastic Anachronism
  Homer appears to completely break any such notions of artistic development: the Iliad and the Odyssey emerge at the end of the 8th century with no visible tradition behind them, and until the 19th century this miraculous event was accepted at face value, elevating Homer from merely a great poet to a superhuman figure.
  But the Age of Reason rolled around and not even Homer remained unruffled.
• Why do cats love tuna so much? Scientists may finally know | Science | AAAS
  Apart from Garfield’s legendary love of lasagna, perhaps no food is more associated with cats than tuna. The dish is a staple of everything from The New Yorker cartoons to Meow Mix jingles—and more than 6% of all wild-caught fish goes into cat food. Yet tuna (or any seafood for that matter) is an odd favorite for an animal that evolved in the desert. Now, researchers say they have found a biological explanation for this curious craving.
• The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction | Ars Technica
  The genre grew under the wings of the supreme leaders. Late dictator Kim Jong-il referenced science fiction books in his speeches and set guidelines for authors, encouraging them to write about optimistic futures for their country.
  Stories often touch on topics like space travel, benevolent robots, disease-curing nanobots, and deep-sea exploration. They lack aliens and beings with superpowers. Instead, the real superheroes are the exceptional North Korean scientists and technologists.
• Playbook for universal design – Universal design methods for more inclusive solutions
  This website is a guide to universal design principles, providing resources and examples to create inclusive and accessible designs.
• Old English Names: Cæd, Bæd and Dangerous to Know | History Today
  The article explores the historical significance of Old English names and their importance in understanding early medieval England.
• Why Are Sex Toy Vibration Patterns So Terrible?
  When I asked friends, I heard a variety of vibrator opinions, desires, and frustrations: Some said they liked the variation in patterns, especially if it’d been a while since they had partnered sex and they needed some novelty in their routine. Others said a steady rhythm was nice, but the erratic modes were distracting. One described patterns as “cursed.” Another said “I hate it when it has like 17 modes to cycle through, I have only ever needed two modes and they are ‘vibrating’ and ‘vibrating…
• How to sabotage your salary negotiation efforts before you even start
  Niet, eigenlijk, dat ik al ooit over salaris heb onderhandeld. Maar wellicht nuttige tips.