Okay, i know it’s gauche to begin a link roundup with an image file just after i forced your computer to load a Youtube embed, but i need to confirm that you’re seeing the same thing i am on your screens.

We’re all seeing that, right? A robotics company called “Satyress” that’s making centaur-shaped robots? I’m not just hallucinating the most concentrated Xanthebait imaginable? You’d fucking better be seeing it, or else i’m going to have start measuring my prozac dose in grams. Anyway. Link roundup #59, link #1, complete. Here’s the rest!

• List animals until failure. I managed 217.
• An unlikely ally for open-source protein-folding models: Big Pharma
• Rural Nigeria’s solar-panel boom is lighting up the local economy
• Oculart is a website of strange interactive… things.
• An beautiful isometric map of New York, à la nineties and noughties city simulators. One of the more interesting applications of image-generation tech i’ve seen.
• The story of “Klieg eye”, silent Hollywood’s worst disease
• If You See Me Out in Quahog (Remastered)
• Aphex Twin has overtaken Taylor Swift in monthly listeners. Sure. Fuck it. Why not.
• DinoTracker, the machine-learning programme that can identify dinosaurs from their footprints
• Skijoring, or, what happens when rodeo meets the winter Olympics
• Tim Hortons introduces “moonbits”
• “Slow AI Manifesto”, from someone who’s been art-ing with ML tools since before ChatGPT was a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye
• TrogTrogBlog, a blog about nature in Gosforth (featuring cute otter pics)
• Beloved walrus penis stolen from New Jersey cheesesteak icon
• An incredible online museum of tangible media formats
• 😺️ I do not fear you, mother
• AntiRender: “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it’ll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.”
• Growing algæ with only the light from another star
• This semiconductor lab’s website consists entirely of a gallery of contextless pictures and i love it.
• Through the blind hole: the birth and death of autotrepanation
• I’m obsessed with this puppet squirrel
• Finally: London’s snail-farm mafia