• Trinity and Low-background Steel
  
  • Hardcore History
    
  • Slate Political Gabfest
    
• Google Vids!
  
• Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative
  
• D&G This Week in Bad Ideas
  
  • Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B
    
  • Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
    
  • Rawlsian Theory of Justice
    
  • Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical

Cutting Room Floor

• Salami Advent Calendar
  
• Nap Anywhere Pillow
  
• Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab
  
• How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next
  
• I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks!

• Kobo Clara Color
  
• Libby
  
• Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case
  
• Kindle Scribe
  
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  
• Good-Bye to All That
  
• Kindle Unlimited
  
• Ghost Fleet
  
• D&G This Week in Mask Technology: Full-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification
  
• How a digital ‘you’ can sit through your agonizing web conference calls
  
  • Infinite Jest
    
• D&G This Week in Fluorescent Vests: Police flag Pittsburgh man for Steelers parking lot scam
  
  • Speaking of fluorescent vests: NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway
    
• This USB-C mouthpiece turns your phone into a musical instrument
  
  • Zamfir
    
• Licking this “lollipop” will let you taste virtual flavors
  
• Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic Of ’87
  
  • Order yours today: T!E Natural Gas Mercaptan Scratch and Sniff Stickers (Set of 30)

Cutting Room Floor

• Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics
  
• The Commodordion Gets A Big Usability Upgrade
  
• Tetris packed inside a PDF file to run in any PC browser — Pdftris runs from a 60KB PDF
  
• They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
  
• Protect Your Site With A DOOM Captcha
  
• Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator