Turning 20 while the world turns upside-down | Parv Mahajan
I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, lots of jobs will be gone soon. Probably, the smartest thing alive will no longer be human. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re still here. This moment seems very fragile, and perhaps more than most moments will never happen again. I want to capture a little bit of what it feels like to be alive right now.
County Wicklow: Settlement find may challenge Vikings first towns theory – researcher
A recently discovered large hilltop settlement could challenge the theory that the Vikings built the first towns in Ireland, a researcher has said. Dr Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues have identified more than 600 suspected houses in the Brusselstown Ring making it, to date, the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland.
I'm Retiring
Maar allez, er zijn geen zekerheden meer. Artifexian stopt numeteen met zijn youtubekanaal.
Happy Public Domain Day 2026! — The Public Domain Review
The calendar turns, and once again a lively procession of books, images, films, and music leaves copyright behind and steps into the ever-growing public domain! On this year's Public Domain Day (which falls each January 1st) we welcome, in lots of countries around the world, the words of Wallace Stevens, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and Albert Einstein, and in the US a bevy of brilliant books including William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Langston Hughes’ Not Without Laughter, Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage, and, in their original German, Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities and Hermann Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund.
I’ve Been Making This Game for 2 Years (How It's Going) – C-Beams Devlog 50
Om de zoveel tijd kom ik een spel tegen waarvan ik denk: moet! ik! dan! kopen! als! het! uit! komt! C-Beams is alvast gewishlist op Steam, want het tickt gelijk allerlei mogelijk boxen in mijn hoofd (te beginnen met de naam — Blade Runner wahey!), en verder hoe het er uitzien en wat het doet. Én dat er een devlog is en dat het onafhankelijke gewone mensen zijn die het maken.
This Ancient Chinese Poem is a Machine | Tales From the Bottle
This 1,600-year-old poem has never been replicated in English, because it would be virtually impossible. "The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui for her husband. It consists of a 29 by 29 grid of characters, forming a reversible poem that can be read in different ways to form roughly 3,000 smaller rhyming poems. The outer border forms a single circular poem, thought to be both the first and the longest of its kind. The Star Gauge consists of 841 characters in a grid. The original was described by contemporary sources as shuttle-woven on brocade. It was composed by Su Hui during a time when East Asian Mādhyamaka was one of the predominant philosophical schools in the area. The outer border is meant to be read in a circle. The grid is known as a palindrome poem, and can be read in different ways to generate over 3,000 shorter poems, in which the second line of every couplet rhymes with that of the next. The largest set of such poems are 2,848 four-liners with seven characters per line. In the image below, the maroon grid is made up of 32 seven-character phrases. These may be read in certain patterns around the perimeter, and in other patterns for the internal grid. Other poems can be formed by reading characters from the other colored sections."
It Couldn't Be Any Worse…
I traded a friend for this beat to crap 1969 Fender Rhodes Piano Bass and I’m going to bring it back to its former glory to keep in the shop. Definitely one of the most rags to riches repair I’ve done so far—but worth it in the end.
The Riven Diffs
Just how stable is Riven? It is well known that Gehn’s unorthodox writing methods invariably produced ages that eventually fell apart, and Riven in particular is demonstrably close to its inevitable collapse. But do we see any symptoms of this in-game? Besides the endings, Riven appears perfectly normal to an untrained eye. But what if we look closer? What if there are anomalies in plain sight that we simply never noticed before?
Take One Small Step – thinkhuman
Imagine a goal you have: walk 30 minutes a day, or lose 25 pounds, or write and publish a book. Doesn’t matter what; for now, just imagine one. Got it? Now: Think of the first step you’ll take to reach that goal. If you want to lose 25 pounds, for example, you might think “start going to the gym 3 times/week”, or “eat 1,500 calories/day”. Or if you’re writing a book, you might think “write every day for half an hour”. Got that first step? Good. Now forget it, and choose a smaller step. No, even smaller. Smaller. Keep going until you’ve come to what feels like the smallest, most inconsequential step you could take. That’s your first step.
Lottery Every Second – Watch the Odds Fail in Real-Time
You're watching two lotteries being played every single second. Every second a new chance to hit it big. But let's talk about what it would actually take to win. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. For EuroJackpot, they're slightly better at 1 in 139,838,160. These numbers are so large they become meaningless to our brains. This website chooses to express these ridiculously large numbers in time.
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