Test your eyes with 151 visual phenomena and optical illusions. https://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

I am free of the boxes people put me in.

I am plugged in.

I am fully charged.

I am unstoppable.

I am running into a chair.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-roombas-positive-affirmations

24 hours of Earth’s rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We’re all hanging out on this spinning rock.

https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/110531182569820738

Isn't it funny how sometimes we're sure we read a book years ago, but when we go to re-read it we realize that we never did? That was the case for me with Merchanter's Luck by CJ Cherryh, which I had acquired in the early 80s from the SF Book Club.

Really, I shouldn't have waited so long.

https://amzn.to/45X3HNc

Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

Oh my. Shopper was my first home.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5543

“Our country has been remarkably effective at building roads, and now we can start funding projects that will help America’s wildlife cross them." https://apnews.com/article/wildlife-highways-collisions-infrastructure-ab02e06fda340d87a22e85132d0a503c

The Davis School District announced that a review committee concluded the Bible was too “violent or vulgar” for young children. https://apnews.com/article/utah-bible-ban-school-38a39017ee0ff96a96f24007a836302f

Despite the film's remarkable and timely relevance, Weir had no expectation that The Truman Show would prove so on-the-money. "I had no idea the tsunami of reality TV lay just below the horizon." https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230531-the-truman-show-has-a-film-ever-predicted-the-future-so-accurately

"The most painful, and least useful projects are migration projects, yet companies will replace technologies every 4 years." ...and other observations https://medium.com/swlh/amirs-10-laws-of-tech-64536bf8eeff

Volcano research can be a dangerous job, but United States Geological Survey researchers are employing the use of drones observe eruptions near the summit of Hawaii’s Kīlauea Volcano https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/mapping-volcano-eruptions-with-drones/

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This is some damned fine writing. Worth it just for the lede alone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/18/manhood-josh-hawley-review/

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Want a good escapist historical novel? I liked (not loved) The Life She Wanted by Anita Abriel

https://amzn.to/45SxkyX

Archaeologists call these sharp, multipurpose tools “backed artefacts”, but you can think of them as a “stone Swiss Army knife”: the kind of useful tool you carry around to do various jobs you can’t do by hand. https://theconversation.com/65-000-year-old-stone-swiss-army-knives-show-early-humans-had-long-distance-social-networks-184648

Casual bird buddies and ornithology obsessives alike can now trek to far corners of the globe and identify any feathered friend they find – as long as they have their phone with them. https://newatlas.com/biology/identify-every-bird-across-world-merlinbirdid/

Happy unintended consequences. https://news.yahoo.com/amanda-gorman-book-sales-hit-204554766.html

Moonlighter is a small satellite that will soon be launched, meant specifically to serve as a hacking sandbox. It will be part of Hack-A-Sat 4, an annual challenge, where finalists will get the chance to hack the satellite in orbit during DEFCON in August. https://www.issnationallab.org/spx28-moonlighter-cubesat-afrl/