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Articles

• Shugendō - Wikipedia: "In 1907, Yoshitaro Shibasaki and his team successfully climbed Mount Tsurugi, which was regarded as the last unclimbed mountain in Japan. However, they found a metal cane decoration and a sword on the top of the mountain, and it turned out that someone had reached the top before them. A later scientific investigation revealed that the metal cane decoration and sword dated from the late Nara period to the early Heian period and that shugenja had climbed Mount Tsurugi more than 1,000 years ago."
• jsomers.net -- I should have loved biology: Wow, what a powerful article. So many good book recommendations. And more for my list of "what to teach people".
• Javier Arredondo on Twitter: "It's summer and I want an icecream! New experiment. Building an Icecream with Blender Geometry nodes. #b3d #blender3d #geometrynodes #icecream #magnum #chocolate #boolean #delicious #helado #summer #frigo #3dart #experiment #: So good!
• set theory - Explicit examples of undetermined games - MathOverflow
• lo.logic - Most 'unintuitive' application of the Axiom of Choice? - MathOverflow
• set theory - Counterintuitive consequences of $lnot AC$? - Mathematics Stack Exchange: This is the question that starts a dive: what happens if the Axiom of Choice doesn't hold? The AC is often maligned as "very unintuitive"I don't agree with that assessment. Remember that the Axiom of Choice says that given a list of non-empty sets, we can choose one item from each set. That definitely sounds very true, but the problem is, as always, with infinities., but here (and the other links) we see that missing AC is also very unintuitive, but in a different way. Having a tree that has neither have leaves nor infinite paths is really, really weird!
  Also note that some people might quip on twitter that a given axiom is true or notsee Jochen's weeklog, by their nature an axiom cannot be true or false.
• Don't buy The Sun twitch.tv/brainmage on Twitter: "Well I REALLY don't like how similar all these pictures of "Crungus", a made up word I made up. Why are they all the same man? Is the Crungus real? Have I discovered a secret cryptid? https://t.co/KCNUOxP
• The Grug Brained Developer (via Jochen)
• How a fake job offer took down the world’s most popular crypto game
• Long Distance Conveyor Belts -- Amusing Planet
• The world's longest conveyor belt is clearly visible from space
• Short Fiction: This Space Intentionally Left Blank
• What I have written, I have written.: Chuck Klosterman on math: "Life is chock-full of lies, but the biggest lie is math. That’s particularly clear in the discipline of probability, a field of study that’s completely and wholly fake."
  Hilarious! Missing the point of probabilities so far is just... I literally can't even...
• Jakeup on Twitter: "It's useful to be reminded once in a while that most people don't actually understand, either intellectually or on a gut level, what "70%" means." / Twitter: True, unfortunately.
• Metacognition in the Rat – Put A Number On It!: How to do good science. Also, is a rat conscious? Also, there is significant overlap between the dumbest humans and the smartest animals.
• DOD/DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS: I was once on a customer project where, about halfway through the project, the customer informed us that this was an agile project "because we're using Confluence".
• Logitech MX Master 3 vs 2S Teardown: Our favorite mouse got even better – The Bolt Blog: I love me a good teardown. Just from this review, I had to buy that mouse. It is really good!
• Psychology and the Instrument Panel (Apr, 1953)
• DualSense teardown reveals how PS5’s ‘adaptive triggers’ work - Polygon
• The PS5’s ultimate Easter egg is 40,000 PlayStation symbols you can feel - The Verge
• How to Assess an E-voting System: This is really serious! The Swiss e-voting system was seriously researched and pushed back to work on the found issues because these people are serious. Unlike, you know, like, other countries.
• Terrible National Park Reviews Illustrated -- Amusing Planet
• She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.
• Orange petunia - Wikipedia: "In 2015 orange petunias were discovered in Helsinki by botanist Teemu Teeri, leading to a regulatory response dubbed the petunia carnage of 2017 in which plant sellers were directed to destroy the modified petunia plants rather than sell them."
• Nanocar Race - Wikipedia
• Nigerian Ife head: Why UK police are holding a priceless sculpture - BBC News
• absorptions: Spiral spectrograms and intonation illustrations
• Stressing The Elements - How Lego Blocks can and cannot be combined.pdf: You better not get caught with them illegal Legos!

Libraries, programming, etc

• Using GPT-3 to explain how code works: It's getting really quite scary, all of that!
• What Comes After Git
• GitHub - pakastin/maze: Maze generation visualization
• OCRmyPDF documentation — ocrmypdf 13.6.1.dev2+g6e439ee8 documentation
• Python Negatypes • Hillel Wayne
• Fossil: Fossil Versus Git: I have looked at fossil a few times and I would really like to like it. With all the intertia git has, however...
• Michael Green on Twitter: "@nedbat Personally prefer to make an iterator and zip over it twice, no need to have multiple lists https://t.co/c7CBKYVJvj" / Twitter
• PyWebIO - Build full stack web app with Python

Books

• Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel by Chuck Tingle: It's... weird. And meta. And slightly not quite perfect. I love it. Also, very meta.
• The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn: I'd put this on my backlog for this week, but then I just had to finish reading it. The world is huge and believable and the people are just the same, and so varied and so cool. 9/10.

Backlog

• Upgrade by Blake Crouch
• Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys

Games

• The Curious Case of the Stolen Pets (VR): Very cute short game with great music by Wintergatan. 9/10
• Beat Blaster (VR): rhythm game, not that great
• PowerBeats VR (VR): another rhythm game, I like this one. It's a workout!

Backlog

• Geneforge 1: Mutagen (from free EGS)
• Hood: Outlaws & Legends (from free EGS)

Other media

• Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self Part 7 - YouTube: Just as hilarious as all the comments describing it as "not funny".
• World's Hardest World Record - Full Documentary of Lapporten, Sweden 2.1km Long Highline - YouTube: Wow!