Author: robert.adlington

This kind of hyper-chaotic media serves as both entertainment and an ambient worldview for young men raised online. Their minds normalize prank-as-expression. In this context, throwing a dildo on to the court during a WNBA game isn’t just an act of crude rebellion. It sadly mirrors the Skibidi Toilet ethos: low-effort disruption cloaked in irony,…

These standardized scripts, and departures from them, influence how and how well we remember specific instances of these event types, his lab has found. And recently, in a paper published in Current Biology in fall 2024, they showed that individuals can select a dominant script (opens a new tab) for a complex, real-world event —…

If an intracellular mechanism for memory exists in brainless, unicellular organisms, then it’s possible we inherited some form of it, given the advantages it presents. All eukaryotic cells, including our own, trace their evolutionary origins to a free-living ancestor. That legacy echoes in our every cell, yoking our fates to the vast unicellular realm, where…

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do with this massively underrated tool. ✨ — Read on…

History has had a number of these explosive profusions of interconnectedness, driven by a radical innovation in communication technology. But not many. The writer Naomi Alderman calls them “information crises”, and argues that the present one is only the third. The printing press was the second. The invention of writing some time around the fourth…

Each of us is, more or less, an egg. Each of us is a unique, irreplaceable soul enclosed in a fragile shell. This is true of me, and it is true of each of you. And each of us, to a greater or lesser degree, is confronting a high, solid wall. The wall has a…

The more worthwhile endeavors require you to show up vulnerably & honestly, and they leave space for something new to happen. — Read on kottke.org/25/07/hard-things-are-supposed-to-be-hard

Cattell defined fluid intelligence as the ability to reason, analyze, and solve novel problems — what we commonly think of as raw intellectual horsepower. Crystallized intelligence, in contrast, is the ability to use knowledge gained in the past. Think of it as possessing a vast library and understanding how to use it. It is the…

It promotes this overconsumption of things that don’t really have meaning, that are just for the aesthetic,” says Landen Huerter. The interior designer worries about the rise of “fast-fashion trends” in home decor, similar to what has happened in the clothing industry. When people start to feel they need to follow new trends and constantly…

What are the obstructions to AI performing high-quality autonomous math research? I don’t claim to know for sure, but I think they include many of the same obstructions that prevent it from doing many jobs: Long context, long-term planning, consistency, unclear rewards, lack of training data, etc. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/21/daniel-litt/