“Heat some paper to 300ºF (150ºC) and mostly what happens is you have some hot paper. Heat some paper to 500ºF (260ºC) and what you have is a fire. You can use that fire to start other fires, and there’s a self-sustaining thing happening that will go on until all of the locally available fuel is consumed.”
YouTube Finds: The Male Gaze Doesn’t Exist: Knight’s Path, Stellar Blade, And 40 Years Of Data
This deceptively good video actually goes into the science studies of male vs female preference to show that the ‘Male Gaze’ isn’t what you think it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdbMfj3Ge1E
AI can now read ‘by sight’ and write ‘by hand’ very capably when generating or reading images
Just like six-fingered hand hallucinations were an obvious flaw in early AI, until recently one obvious flaw was AI trying to write text in images. Now, AI can write text in images reliably, very legibly, and with quality, sharphness, orientation, font, etc.
Grok imagines my arch nemesis based on my X posts
Me: Create an image based off my X posting history of who my archnemesis would be. Grok: Hold my beer.
Smallweb Finds: Vole.wtf Clutter Site
This crazy website clutters your screen with cards when you arrive and you can click-and-drag to see what’s underneath. https://vole.wtf/
Smallweb Finds: The average visitor to this website clicks the coin box 58 times
The average visitor to this website clicks for coins 58 times. Okay, I made that up, it’s just what I did but I bet you’ll like clicking this box as much as every other visitor. https://block.sunappu.net/
Smallweb Finds: The Obscuritory – For Games Unplayed and Unknown
A quirky website with old school full article reviews of games you probably never played and probably never heard of. Super small web stuff. https://obscuritory.com/
Smallweb Finds: You enter a lonely manor on top of a hill…
Most Neocities site follow very same-ish templates provided by the host but this site at least gives a sense of some artistry that I haven’t really seen before. https://goblincat.neocities.org/
Smallweb Finds: Please visit Bagdad, Arkansas
This amazing basic website appears to be the town website for Bagdad, Arkansas. Totally small town vibe, totally small web vibe. Love it. https://www.bagdadarkansas.org/
Smallweb Finds: Slashdiv OS
A small web site that looks like a Windows 95-esque desktop with many interactable features. Sites like this remind me of boomer shooters that look very dated graphically but have a charm with the level of interactability with the environment that you still rarely see even in newer games. https://slashdiv.neocities.org/