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Rubble From Bone by Tom Stevenson for the London Review of Books. “The war on Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment.”
I turned this blog comments thread into a job board and it’s full of people looking for work (and a few companies that are hiring). If your company is hiring, get in there and make some life-altering connections!
Kurzgesagt’s latest video on the paradox of time is a bit more of a brain-bender than their usual videos. From the accompanying sources document:
This video summarizes in a narrative format two well-known theories about time: the so-called “block universe” and the “growing block”.
13-year-old Blue Scuti is now the best Tetris player in the world after becoming the first human player to beat the NES version of the game by playing until reaching the kill screen. The feat took him 38 minutes (as well as who knows how many thousands of hours of practice) and also resulted in a new high score, new level & lines records, and something called a “19 Score world record”. Skip to the 38:00 mark to watch his last few lines and what happens when he wins.
In this video from his YouTube channel “about anything”, Posy demonstrates a video filtering technique called motion extraction. A commenter calls this video “a tutorial, a demonstration, and a work of art”, all rolled into one. It’s really lovely and informative. My jaw actually dropped at the “how can you well which stones were disturbed on the path” part.
Nearly last call: the 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, which is chock full of gift recommendations from kids to books to kitchen things to Richard Scarry temporary tattoos to my personal, perennial favorites. Take a look!
This is a quote I like that’s attributed to Alvin Toffler from his 1970 book, Future Shock:
The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
It turns out that’s not a direct quote — it’s been cobbled together from two separate passages in the book:
This is the lowest price I’ve seen on SAF’s Aranet4 CO2 monitor (for measuring indoor air quality for Covid safety): $149 — that’s 40% off the regular price.