+1 for xkcd

Donnie Darko is an upside down version of “it’s a wonderful life”

It’s the American dream. What is the quote? We’re all embarrassed potential millionaires?

https://symless.com/synergy

Share mouse and keyboard. All software, cross OS compatible. It’s not KVM, because no video. Instead, you slide your mouse off of one screen and then start controlling the next laptop.

IMHO It just feels right to me, especially when you have multiple laptops/workstations around the same desk.

Acerola - I tried simulating the entire ocean

I really enjoy listening to this guy, he really explains the details about graphics in an easily accessible way.

Start with Luke 21 …

He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.

Sounds… nice, poor people should give, right? Then read just before the unfortunate? chapter break at the end of Luke 20

“Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

Can you make that graph look more like pacman?

Veritasium did a bit Why it was almost impossible to Make the Blue LED

For Karl!

Or that we are all refugees and are just tired of enshitification.

Roll a D6

I thought ‘Children of the mind’ was good, could have been merged with Xenocide.

Whatever you do, stay away from ‘The Last Shadow’. What a terrible way to finish a series.

Careful, snail mail takes a while. “Four days later” (!)

'I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don’t come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.’

Lieutenant Reginald Endicott “Broccoli” Barclay III

+1 for the life hack and restoring some faith in humanity.

A traffic jam when you’re already late

“Trust in numbers” was an eye opening book I had to read for a university course.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208411/trust-in-numbers

The idea that “It’s difficult to get numbers to tell you the truth” despite how people tend to think hard data is not falsifiable - was my main take.