Friday Links!
Leading off this week, something to feel good about: Little Free Library celebrates its 200,000th book-sharing box.
Here's a real oddity that's particularly concerning: Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code.
From Wally, and it's quite a read /s: These Books Are Absolutely Unreadable. That’s the Point. Wonderful photographs: Sony World Photography Awards 2025: The year’s best images unveiled. It's not urbanization of BBQ, it's enshittification: Texas's Barbecue Schism.
From C. Lee, and that's megabytes: What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966. An excellent read: The Real Origin of Karate: A Goodbye to Cobra Kai. This is fantastic: Star Wars Reimagines Characters in Ukiyo-E Style. The rest of C. Lee's links this week are to episodes of the Youtube series "How to Speak Australians," which is tremendously funny and also tremendously NSFW:
1: G'day Knackers
2: Grub
3: Rhyming Slang
4: Famous Australians
5: Nicknames
6: The Slackarse Country
7: Dunny Budgies And Budgie Smugglers
8: Citizenship Test
<< Home