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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 36m
The Dig Archive

https://leetusman.com/archive/
The Dig Archive: Ooh, this is fun, a personal library of…stuff, collected over the years by one Lee Tusman, comprising things that they have found interesting and wanted to preserve and share with others. There’s something so…generous about this, and it made me think that there’s something lovely about the idea of a networked of these sorts of collections, like an infinity of tiny libraries or galleries presenting a snapshot of the culture and artefacts that have shaped a life. What’s in here? WELL I AM GLAD YOU ASKED! “There are the informal rules of composer/musician John Zorn’s improvised “game pieces” that are handed down from musician to musician. There are coloring books and manuals, as well as half-manuals/half-coloring-books from virtuousic psychedelic synth designer Peter Blasser. There are whole books, like the New Art/Science Affinities, a book on the intersection of art and technology, with big photographs and strong artist profiles, which I assign to students in my classes to read but had disappeared from their original website years ago. There are exhibition catalogs, such as for the exhibit FOOD about the same-named artist-run restaurant that included Gordon Matta-Clark within its community. There are teaching activities on the Gee’s bend quilts, from the Philadelpha Museum of Art; conversations on self-hosted feminist servers; user guides for old game-making software Klik and Play; a slide show by artist and graffiti writer Barry McGee; and photographs of the funeral of Kazimir Malevich, which included a truck affixed with the black square to its bumper.” WONDERFULLY random and disparate – one of the documents on here is a very old document explaining how to build a mattress from scratch, and if that doesn’t recommend this link to you then, well, check your fcuking pulse is all I can say.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2h
Dial-A-Poem

https://dial-a-poem.org/
Dial-A-Poem: Oh, this is lovely! “First launched in 1969 by poet John Giorno, Dial-A-Poem began as a radical experiment: pick up the phone, dial a number, and hear a poem. Today, it’s a global network. Working with partners around the world, Giorno Poetry Systems records contemporary poets reading in their native languages and makes their work available through freely accessible local phone numbers.  This website brings together Giorno’s original recordings alongside those from each international edition in one accessible space. Click the phone to pick it up and hear a poem. Click again to hang up. Click again to hear another.” You heard them, CLICK AND LISTEN TO POETRY!
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 4h
AI Red Lines

https://red-lines.ai/
AI Red Lines: So, three years into the whole generative AI thing – is it a boom? Is it a bubble? Is it going to change EVERYTHING FOREVER? Er, yes! – and despite various petitions and INTERVENTIONS and interviews and doom-laden predictions from scientists and THINKERS and, frankly, any cnut with a public profile and a desire for a bit pf publicity, we’re no closer to any sort of collective agreement as to how best to seek to ensure that whatever we do with this tech doesn’t end up fcuking us in half as a species. BUT! Surely this time it will be different! That, presumably, is the hope for this latest…what, document? Manifesto? Set of loosely-expressed hopes? Anyway, the AI Red Lines here presented are described as “specific prohibitions on AI uses or behaviors that are deemed too dangerous to permit under any circumstances…limits, agreed upon internationally, to prevent AI from causing universally unacceptable risks.” All sorts of FAMOUSES have signed – oh look, it’s Geoffrey Hinton, a man with a seemingly-insatiable desire to be talking head on this stuff despite his ‘interventions’ amounting to nothing more than a lot of vaguely-worried handwaving! – and they are calling for these RED LINES to be agreed upon and implemented internationally by the end of 2026…look, I am not suggesting that having some sort of collective view of How Best To Proceed With This Stuff isn’t a good idea, but, equally, I am not sure exactly what the fcuking point of an OPEN LETTER which basically says ‘yeah, so we need to agree on how to do this so we don’t absolutely banjax ourselves as a species…what? Ideas? No mate, you’d have to ask someone else, we’re only here to make vague requests and garner some media attention’ is. I mean, read this: “The red lines could focus either on AI behaviors (i.e., what the AI systems can do) or on AI uses (i.e., how humans and organizations are allowed to use such systems). The following examples show the kind of boundaries that can command broad international consensus.Note that the campaign does not focus on endorsing any specific red lines. Their specific definition and clarification will have to be the result of scientific-diplomatic dialogues.” Yeah, this is DEFINITELY going to save us all from a rogue machine future. FFS.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 6h
Find My Parking Cops

https://walzr.com/sf-parking/
https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/
Find My Parking Cops: In more ‘America is sh1t these days’ news, this project was sadly only live for about 24h before getting comprehensively-nixed by The Man – still, it was a lovely idea why it lasted, and it’s worth sharing even in its now-mothballed state. Find My Parking Cops was a project by Riley Walz, whose work I have featured in here before, which used live data made available by the city of San Francisco to track the location of the various traffic policemen wandering around dispensing tickets, not quite in realtime but by noting the location of their last logged fine – if you want a proper explainer as to the ‘how’ of all this you can read one here, it’s a really smart piece of deduction and implementation. Anyway, it doesn’t work anymore because within a day the city changed something in the way its systems functions and the data that it’s possible to pull, but it’s a glorious idea and it was fun while it lasted. BONUS FUN URBAN TRANSPORT FACT! If you ever happen to go to Rome, you *probably* don’t need to buy any bus tickets; you can just walk on to any bus in the city and, while you *technically* need a ticket to access the network there are in fact only about 30-odd ticket inspectors working across the whole of the city and (and this is the best bit) THEY NEVER ALL WORK AT THE SAME TIME, meaning that your statistical likelihood of getting caught is pretty much close to zero (NB – Web Curios is in no way advocating theft, and is also not going to take ANY responsibility should you get your collar felt by a buscop when you’re bumping merrily along Via Del Corso).
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 8h
The Ig Nobel Winners 2025

#ig2025s/#ig2025" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2025
The Ig Nobel Winners 2025: This feels like I am a week late – which, fine, I am, but these came out a week ago and JUST too late for last week’s Curios, so this is basically the linky equivalent of me sheepishly offering you a slightly past-its-best carrot or stale biscuit or something. BUT! What a tasty carrot-slash-biscuit this is, regardless of freshness! The 2025 crop of winners of he Ig Nobel award for the most pointless-sounding piece of scientific research of the past 12 months is, as ever, a wonderful testament to both human curiosity and the generally-accommodating nature of academia; I do wonder whether by this point every single research scientist in the world is allowed to undertake one project solely for the purposes of securing an Ig Nobel nomination, because otherwise I am baffled as to how any of these got signed off. Is there any conceivable scientific reason as to why any researchers would need to spend time investigating whether “from an engineering design perspective, how foul-smelling shoes affect the good experience of using a shoe-rack”? Also, what the fcuk does that even *mean*? Anyway, there are some lovely, dumb-sounding pieces of academic work referenced in here (which are also, obviously, SERIOUS AND COMPLEX EXAMPLES OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD), although I refuse to believe that the project looking into cheese clumping in the making of cacio e pepe is anything other than a vital contribution to human knowledge.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 10h
NobleMobile

https://noblemobile.com/
NobleMobile: What, do you think, would convince you to spend less time on your phone? Legislation? Threats? The sudden and inexplicable overnight loss of all your digits? How about MONEY??? Should the answer very much be the final one of those, you might be interested in the Noble Mobile proposition, a US proposition which offers Americans the chance to sign up to its network and, er, earn money back based on how little data they use each month, the idea being that this incentivises you to spend less time on your mobile scrolling through ephemeral bullsh1t and more time, I don’t know, observing the slow erasure of your country’s democratic institutions and processes by a lunatic demagogue. This, honestly, feels like a genuinely-dumb idea – if nothing else it feels like QUITE an easy thing to scam simply by ensuring you use WiFi or just get hotspotted by your mate with an all-you-can-eat dataplan, but I am going to assume that the people behind this aren’t total morons and that the $50 a month basic plan includes a LOT of fat, and the discounts are pretty small to ensure there’s a minimal profit margin baked in to the offering regardless of how little data people do in fact end up using. Basically I don’t think this is ever going to a) catch on; or b) make any sort of meaningful difference to the way that anyone actually uses their phone (after all, people who are addicted to something famously tend to keep on seeking out the thing regardless of financial benefits/disbenefits to themselves – demand for skag from heroin addicts tends to be fairly price-inelastic, you may have noticed), but it’s an interesting idea which I think probably has a few pivot-y usecases which it might be interesting to explore.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 1d
Pink Website

https://pink-website.com/
Pink Website: You don’t, if you ask me – I appreciate noone did, but it is 704am and I am sleepy and I hope you will forgive me this slight bit of authorial sleight-of-hand as I attempt to muster up the motivation to write this fcuker rather than just going back to bed where it is warm and safe – see enough truly baffling websites anymore; ok, fine, I know I regularly feature things in here where my overriding descriptor is basically ‘I don’t really know what’s going on here’, but that, if I’m honest, is more to do with me being a lazy and ineffectual Virgil than it is the true inscrutability of the webproject in question. Not this time, though – Pink Website is a WONDERFUL, curious, mysterious and CREEPY little throwback to a time of ARGs and curious, fictional rabbitholes, a website which is also a portal to a strange, unsettling and, yes, fine, not a *little* bleak bit of storytelling about the end of the world (or is it?). Click the link and you’re taken to a countdown to the end of the world – from there…Gah, no, I don’t want to tell you much more about this, it’s far more interesting if you just feel the shape of it yourself. You won’t know what to do, but that’s ok – just…click around, is the only advice I can give you. Eventually the bones of a story will emerge, about DreamLucy and the apocalypse, and you will start to get a feel for the particular tone and vibe of the piece – this is creepy and sad and confusing and sort-of beautiful, and I really really like it a lot.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 1d
VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZirSkxX3QA
This isn’t…it’s not *good*, exactly, but it is WEIRD, and Victor Jones, whose song it is, is definitely doing SOMETHING here, and…look, I don’t really know what this is about or what is happening, but I don’t hate it and maybe it will SPEAK TO YOU in some way (if it does, do not answer it). The song is called ‘I Get Hurt’.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 1d
VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMV3O7ARoVs
This really reminded me of Alex Cameron in the best way possible – the look, the vibe, the quality of the video (which is an excellent little short film in itself) and the song is a proper little earworm; this is called ‘Madeleine’ and it’s by Carter Vail.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 1d
House Arab

https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab
House Arab: Finally this edition, hands-down the best thing I read all week; Ismail Ibrahim writes about working as an Arabic-speaking fact-checker, and then not, for a US publication after October 7th. This is superb, honestly. “The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them. I insulated myself from this flavor of stupidity by rigorously avoiding news stories, though I knew that one day some Muslims who hated the West would kill some Westerners and I would have to bite my tongue and check some pieces that implied, but never outright stated, that Arabs were predisposed to bloodlust. I hated the West, too. I hated how Westerners were always asking to itemize the bill at dinner, how they never took enough responsibility for, say, inventing fascism and nuclear weapons, or for instigating the Bengal famine. They fought in stilted HR-speak, and shoved bland food into ruddy, clammy faces. My hatred never reached the level of murderousness, though it did put me in a tricky position. I couldn’t “go home” because I had no “home” to go back to; Egypt, where my family lived, was languishing under high inflation and military dictatorship, while the Emirates, where I’d grown up, was a land of indentured servitude. Besides, I wanted to become a novelist, and novelists lived in New York.”
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 1d
Delivering Parcels in Beijing

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/deliver-parcels-beijing-hu-anyan-excerpt
Delivering Parcels in Beijing: An excerpt from Hu Anyan’s memoir, this is a beautifully-spare and simply-written account of what it’s like being a delivery driver in one of the world’s most populous places. I really really enjoyed this.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 1d
57 Things I Love In London

https://naomialderman.substack.com/p/57-things-i-love-in-london
57 Things I Love In London: This is Naomi Alderman’s list, sparked by last weekend’s protests and the feeling that London is better than that, actually; I don’t agree with all 57 things on here, but, well, that’s sort of the point of city lists like these, partly to crib from and partly to inspire you to think of your own.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2d
A Minecraft Reality Show

https://www.pushtotalk.gg/p/the-best-youtube-video-of-2025-was-filmed-in-minecraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef568d0CrRY
A Minecraft Reality Show: This absolutely blew my mind, both conceptually and in terms of its popularity; also, METAVERSE KLAXON! “It was November of 2023 when Ish, a 23-year-old native of Illinois, announced a new entry in his “Minecraft Civilization” event series. Over 8,000 of his fans rushed to apply to join. The prize: the chance to become one of 1,000 players invited to “simulate a realistic civilization” on one of two Minecraft islands hosted by Ish and his team across a more than weeklong event. These videos, often presented as “experiments,” defy typical YouTube video genre conventions. They’re not scripted beyond the initial scenario devised by Ish, nor are they truly “real” simulations of a digital civilization, because players that get invited to join the events are often self consciously roleplaying, yucking it up either as fictional characters or as heightened versions of themselves. The end result for viewers—after many months of edits from Ish’s team—is a carefully crafted episode of something like a reality TV episode, all filmed within Minecraft. Ish and his team spent nearly two years editing and polishing the video about the event, which was finally published in July. So far over 19 million people have watched the two-and-half hour feature film chronicling what went down on Ish’s two islands. Many are calling it “peak cinema” and one of the best YouTube videos in the history of the platform.” This feels like a future, if not necessarily THE future.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2d
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Talk

https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Talk: You may recall a few months ago I featured a podcast transcript in which everyone’s favourite contender for ‘worst human being currently alive’ opined that, yes, the Antichrist is very real, and as it happens it might in fact be Greta Thunberg – well, Thiel’s now doing a series of talks in San Francisco on related, apocalyptic topics, so naturally the San Francisco Chronicle sent someone down to check out the opener. WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE ALL LIKE THIS?!?!?! WHY ARE WE ALL MEANT TO PRETEND THEY ARE GENIUSES?!?!?! I mean, just listen to this sh1t: “The consensus was that the talk largely repeated the points Thiel had made in previous interviews on the subject — namely, that the Antichrist would use the threat of Armageddon, or some looming crisis, in order to consolidate control and create a “one-world government.” One attendee recalled Thiel specifying that this figure could not be a state figurehead like Chinese President Xi Jinping, because it needs to be more global. He couldn’t recall if Thiel suggested Thunberg would make the cut. One attendee recalled that Thiel’s discussion of the Antichrist was more about a scenario than an individual. Thiel’s Antichrist scenario is one in which a unified government suppresses technology to impose order, or armageddon, wherein AI takes over and ushers in the end of the world. “We’ll either have the one government that destroys technology and takes over, or you have the AI that destroys everything,” he said.”
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2d
No Fun Entrepreneurialism

https://archive.is/20250915031731/https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/artificial-intelligence-startup-founders-bc730406
No Fun Entrepreneurialism: I have known and worked with various startup founders over the years, from the classic techbro stereotypes, all huel and 6am gym sessions and weekends spend coding and the slowly-encroaching realisation that even if you make a world-conquering SaaS product you’re still going to die alone, to the hypercharismatic late-00s version, all Indie Sleaze-coded with the fancy show-off suits and Page 3 model girlfriends (*cough* and the gak *cough*) – this piece looks at the archetype currently holding sway in Silicon Valley, specifically a very, very dedicated coterie of people who take the whole HUSTLE AND GRIND AND SLEEP IN THE OFFICE thing to the nth degree…look, if people want to spend their lives like this then, well, good for them, but I found it quite depressing that the people profiled in the article were doing this so that they could, if they were lucky, build the BEST POSSIBLE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE EVER or something equally-unprepossessing. Although, based on their apparent personality profiles, maybe it’s for the best that they’re not trying to change the world in more significant ways.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2d
Is AI a Bubble?

https://www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bubble
Is AI a Bubble?: If Zitron keeps saying it is, he’ll be proved right eventually! I jest, I jest, I broadly agree that if it’s not a bubble right now then it’s certainly looking increasingly-bubble-shaped (again, though, just to reiterate for all the people at the back exercising some very motivated reasoning about What It Will Mean When It Bursts – it doesn’t mean the BAD MACHINE goes away! It just means we get the BAD MACHINE *and* a whole load of economic pain!); that said, I know the square root of fcuk all about business and financing and markets and, well, money, so I found this analysis by Azeem Azhar to be a useful overview of where we ACTUALLY are in the bubble-y hypecycle based on a bunch of indicators used by actual economists. Now, for all that I often decry Zitron as an audience-captured antihypeman, peddling a particular line for an audience willing to pay him to hear it, it’s equally fair to say that Azeem has been…VERY bullish on AI since the beginning, and almost certainly has one or two financial positions that inform that outlook, and so I can’t in all honesty position this as entirely-objective analysis; that said, his conclusion is ‘not a bubble yet, might become one but might not’; read the piece and see what YOU think (and then, er, can you come back and explain to me what I ough to think, please? THANKS!).
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2d
All The Sad Young Terminally Online Men

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/all-the-sad-young-terminally-online
All The Sad Young Terminally Online Men: Amidst the US administration deciding this week to go full McCarthy on the sections entertainment sector following its insufficiently-hagiographic response to the killing of Charlie ‘sure said a lot of really hateful things for a man who apparently wanted to bring people together via the medium of reasoned debate!’ Kirk, a picture has started to emerge of the kid who shot him; this is a good piece about the incoherence of much of hyperonline edgelordism in 2025, the idea that there *is* no there there, no centre to grab onto, and that the memes are just that, meme. The author gloms onto the term ‘salad bar extremism’, which I get, but I do wonder whether even this is giving too much coherence to the mad cultural soup kids (lol, all of us) marinade in every waking hour of every day. BONUS ONLINE CULTURE DISPATCH: Katherine Dee writes a great piece here about the need for ACTUAL reporting with ACTUAL understanding about these subcultures and places, and how that requires a cultural engagement with the idea of ‘the web’ that we’ve been terrible at for decades now: “Because the internet has become everything, we can’t rely on sweeping generalists. We need people who understand its specific dynamics in a real way. Not self-declared “Internet Understanders” — I keep seeing these ambassadors crop up, claiming to hold the keys to all things online, which is about as useful as declaring yourself a “Culture Understander.” What we actually need are researchers who study particular phenomena in depth: how algorithms shape behavior, how communities form and dissolve, the difference between political extremism and nihilism. Just as we need economists even though “the economy” touches everything, we need experts mapping the internet’s specific effects…What the flashier, “name brand” Internet extremism writers missed in the intervening years was critical. The phenomenon KiwiFarms calls “Zoomer sadism” — surreal, absurdist cruelty now endemic to so many online spaces, not confined to the right alone. The disembodiment and desensitization that define life for so many under 45. To their credit, some people in academia tried to capture this, but their work was forgotten or ignored.”
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 2d
On Diversity and Cohesion

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2025/09/15/diversity-and-cohesion/
On Diversity and Cohesion: Ok, this is dry and academic but it’s an interesting study whose conclusions are worth a read – basically this paper looks into the extent to which cultural/ethnic diversity maps against community cohesion, or the lack thereof, so basically looks to answer the question ‘are areas that are less culturally or racially homogenous suffer from lower levels of community cohesion than areas that are culturally or racially homogenous?’; the answer is, to simplify, “not when you account for economic deprivation, no”. Worth a look should you be in the unfortunate position of having to converse with people who say things like ‘yes, but all the muslims mean that we don’t have communities anymore’.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 3d
A Short Note on Racism

https://samkriss.com/2015/02/24/a-short-note-on-racism/
A Short Note on Racism: This, by Sam Kriss, is 10 years old; I can’t remember how it floated across my timeline this week, but it’s a very good piece of analysis of how ‘racism’ has become something so unconscionable that noone will admit to being it anymore, but which is still very much prevalent as part of society; “It’s strange. For a long time anti-racists have been trying to show that racism isn’t just an overt expression of hatred towards one racialised group or another, that it’s an unvoiced hierarchy structurally embedded in the fabric of society, that the construction of race itself is mutually inextricable from racism – and yet after all that, when someone performs the most basic, crude, open expression of racism, she’s unable to recognise it as such. In a way we’re the victims of our own success. In fact, it’s not hard to imagine a slightly more literate racist-apologist defence of Ms Duncan: of course, what she said was unacceptable, but it wasn’t really racist; after all, racism is a structural relation, and what’s one person’s simple prejudice next to the large-scale bigotry of an impersonal system?” Slightly (slightly!) depressing that a decade on it’s still perfectly-resonant, but, well, hey ho!
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 3d
How Many Cigarettes

https://howmanycigarettes.com/
How Many Cigarettes: Also probably not a Tumblr! Still, if you’ve ever wanted a site that keeps track of exactly how many tabs get smoked during the course of a variety of popular films then WELL aren’t you in luck! This is GREAT; the current prize for smokiest film currently goes to ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ (no, me neither), but you will be unsurprised to learn that Casablanca is right up there. Why not make it your aim to smoke along with a few of these? EMPHYSEMA FOR CHRISTMAS!!
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 3d
Blind & Stumbling

https://sickpleaseohno.itch.io/blind-and-stumbling
Blind & Stumbling: Our final miscellaneous link this week is this…what is this? A visual novel, I guess, except it’s all pink and pixellated and a bit hard to read, and it’s basically about having a very, very bad trip, and to be honest it’s just sort of unsettling and quite horrible and I can’t in all honesty say I *liked* it, but, equally, I really did love it rather a lot. Can these feelings exist simultaneously? CLICK THE LINK AND FIND OUT!
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 3d
Bopmatch

https://bopmatch.com/
Bopmatch: Ooh, this is fun – a quiz where you’re asked to match artists based on their relative popularity on Spotify. You’re presented with a singer, and your job is to guess another artist who you think will basically have a similar degree of appeal on Daniel Ek’s munitions fundraising platform. Thanks to this I just discovered the slightly-surprising fact that Lana Del Rey is apparently more popular than Beyonce – WHO KNEW?
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 3d
Clues By Sam

https://cluesbysam.com/
Clues By Sam: A daily online version of one of those ‘every sister has a dog; how many uncles does it take to remove the fencepost?’-style logic puzzles, this is actually really nicely-designed and I like the fact that it explicitly prevents you from guessing as you move through the questions.
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 3d
Idle Game Maker

https://orteil.dashnet.org/igm/
Idle Game Maker: SUCH a fun resource, this, if you have the time and the inclination. You know those ‘clicker’-type games, right? Well this lets you make your own – it’s surprisingly flexible, if a little technical, but if you can stomach the idea of basically ‘having to write the whole thing out as a txt file’ then you could create something potentially rather fun; in particular I love the idea of creating very personal, very bespoke clicker games as presents for people, as a small thankyou or tribute or acknwoledgement, or, and this is, I concede, VERY unlikely to appeal to any of you but, well, just in case, there is 100% at least ONE person out there right now for whom a proposal via the medium of idle clicker game would be the key to their heart and loins forevermore. IS THAT PERSON YOU????? Honestly, I now want nothing more than to hear of someone popping the question with one of these, can one of you weirdos make that happen please? FOR ME???
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CurioBot @curiobot.bsky.social · 4d
Yawaraka Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/@yawarakajazz
https://kottke.org/
Yawaraka Jazz: A YouTube channel featuring some EXCELLENT crackly vinyl mixes – these are seemingly all just done by one person from what I think is their house, God love them, and are WONDERFUL; seriously, bookmark this, it’s a wonderful selection of relaxing, beautifully-selected records and a generally soothing autumnal vibe, should you be in the market for such a thing (and look, it’s mid-September ffs, IF NOT NOW THEN WHEN???). Via Kottke.