What I saw on the web on 2025.7.1

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1. How to Become a Millionare by Solving One Math Problem
   by Xyla Foxlin
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGe2nmRw-sg
   a nice quick explainer of the Millennium Problems. her discussion of Hodge is extremely hand-wavy, but mine would be too, so no shade thrown there
   via rss
   
   
2. Legendary RPG Designer Breaks Media Silence- Ep. 59
   by Kevin Crawford and Steve Winter, with occasional comments from Ben Riggs
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLe3saMZYk4
   meaning no disrespect to Ben, but his best episodes are the ones where the two guests end up interviewing each other
   via rss
   
   
3. The Changing Room Illusion
   by Michael A. Cohen
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXk-Oc35oN4
   i'm not surprised that this works, but it's still impressive to (not) watch
   via TYWKIWDBI
   
   
4. Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns
   by Bruce "Bruce Schneier" Schneier
   https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/iranian-blackout-affected-misinformation-campaigns.html
   that's not suspicious at all
   via rss
   
   
5. Is there such a thing as a magnitude 0 earthquake?
   by Randall Munroe
   https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKXVs4UteSc
   there sure is, it's an open-ended scale in both directions!
   via rss
   
   
6. 342760575891993352
   by Peregrin Took with assistance from [citation needed]
   https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Futdwmmz10g951.jpg
   apparently [citation needed] speaks French?
   via discord
   
   
7. Nouveau Nonfiction
   by Matthew Surridge
   https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/nouveau-nonfiction
   i've read and appreciated three of the discussed books. perhaps i need to track down the other ones as well?
   via discord
   
   
8. A Scots Tune
   by Brandon Acker, playing a tune from the Jane Pickering Lute Book (1616)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I27_gx2VDSQ
   some pleasant lute music
   via looking for some pleasant lute music