What I saw on the web on 2022.2.10

[reblogarythm]

1. Narrative Device
   by PhD student exploring human-AI collaboration
   https://narrative-device.herokuapp.com/createstory
   the silly fun that modern technology allows
   via reddit
   
   
2. spectral paranormal wombats
   by Charlie Stross
   http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/01/quantum-of-nightmares-spoiler-.html#comment-2137700
   i also am speculating about this
   via i suppose rss ultimately
   
   
3. The Interstate's Forgotten Code
   by CGP Grey
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fn_30AD7Pk
   i knew some of this, but only some of it
   via rss
   
   
4. Longest sentence in LotR?
   by /u/roacsonofcarc
   https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/sowf6y/longest_sentence_in_lotr/
   (and the longest sentence from the Silmarillion is in the comments, along with the code)
   via reddit
   
   
5. So You Want To Run A Microgrants Program
   by Scott Alexander
   https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-run-a-microgrants
   in case that is a thing that you want to do, some notes
   via rss
   
   
6. List of words known better by UK people than U.S. people, and vice versa
   by Mark Frauenfelder, reblogging Tom Coates
   https://boingboing.net/2022/02/10/list-of-words-known-better-by-uk-people-than-u-s-people-and-vice-versa.html
   and i know more of the US words than the UK words (although certainly some of each)
   via rss
   
   
7. Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
   by Gregory Barber
   https://www.wired.com/story/ada-palmer-sci-fi-future-weird-hand-progress/
   a great piece on a great author
   via cory doctorow's post (see below)
   
   
8. Welcome to the Palmerverse
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/10/monopoly-begets-monopoly/#terra-ignota
   another great piece on the same great author
   via rss
   
   
9. How to understand groups of people
   by David R. MacIver
   https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-understand-groups
   user user personas to think about how people interact with systems
   via rss
   
   
10. BOOKSTORE a solo micro RPG
    by Oliver Darkshire
    https://twitter.com/Sotherans/status/1491570607686836230
    looks accurate
    via Ada_Palmer