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slop·py·pas·ta  n.  Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender did not bother to do themselves.

Smartphones? Too smart. Dumbphones? Too dumb. Commodore built the phone in between. Does everything you want, nothing you don’t. Less scroll. More soul. Remember when the future of tech was exciting? When it promised to serve us, not enslave us? The future we were promised… is here.

(best viewed on a full sized screen with sound) Our hands are amazing, our fingers are amazing, and our brains are amazing, too. Altogether they are capable of feats that not so long ago made absolutely no scientific sense – and sometimes still don’t today. Artists and performers have known […]

What happens when AI starts rewriting the web to fit our assumptions and shared knowledge fractures into a myriad personalized interpretations? Below are today's headlines from wire service RSS feeds. Tell the machine which outlet you trust, and watch it quietly rewrite the news to match—in real time, in front […]

Any collaboration is a negotiation. While most artistic teams hide the dissent and shifting alliances that lie behind their decisions, these works hosted at three.org in the early days of the Web stress individual differences rather than a unified front. The following works have from three.org have been resurrected and […]

HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free. Create pedal boards, drum machines, sampled instruments. And don’t write a single line of JavaScript in the process. Unless you really want to.

How today's temperatures compare to the historic average

Plot.fyi is film discovery for film lovers Enter a film and we'll search a database of 12,000 films across 600+ plot and style attributes to find good matches and interesting intersections. Browse directors, actors, composers alone — or in combination. Find streaming options through The Movie Database link (TMDB, not […]

Bram is a desktop app that helps you make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development. Bram runs agents mindfully. Who is it for? Anyone who wants to use AI coding agents in a safe and accountable way. Bram has opinions. It thinks versioning and collaboration are […]

A website that displays Mark Rothko paintings chosen to match your local weather. via https://substrate.dougbelshaw.com/current-rothko

Guess today's CSS feature in six rows or less. via https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/116768085456738466

Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, and the public. Web archivists typically employ Web crawlers for automated capture due to the massive scale of the Web. Ever-evolving Web standards require […]

WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display. Your drawer is full of identical-looking cables. Some charge at full speed, some crawl. Some carry video, some can barely handle a […]

Extract Mastodon Decentralized Social Media,include followers,following,likers/favourites,reblog/retweet,save all data to CSV file. Scrape and export the Mastodon.social Decentralized Social Leads into CSV. 🔥 FEATURES ✓ One click to extract Mastodon.social data to CSV file ✓ Support user's followers and following, post's replies / comments, post's likers and post's reblogs / retweet. […]

In short, the U.S. government produces estimates of the share of people born in year X who will still be alive in year Y. It also produces data on how many babies with a given name are born in each year. By combining these two datasets, we can estimate how […]

A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers — all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. No Server Uploads — All video processing happens entirely on your device ✅ 30+ Video Operations — GIF creation, format conversion, compression, trimming, effects, filters, and more ✅ Offline-First […]

Despite the countless number of online resources (even CSS-Tricks has a full guide on it), it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element, whether vertically, horizontally, or both). I am sure you will find something that works by googling or trying different combinations. But do you really […]

An interactive guide to understanding AI from first principles. The genesis of this tutorial is that I wanted my 11 year old son Isaac to understand how modern AI works. I looked at existing tutorials, but all the ones I could find were either too hand-wavey, required a level of […]

The Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning Collection of 300+ videos (100+ hours) consists of observational videos of students learning mathematical concepts. The videos were captured through a series of research projects studying the same student sample, from first grade through high school, 1992 to the present. The collection consists […]

Charts are a window into the world. When done right, we gain an understanding of who we are, where we are, and how we can become better versions of ourselves. However, when done wrong, in the absence of truth, charts can be harmful. This is a guide to protect ourselves […]