A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls in the past month (which I added to my Tumblr although for a few weeks it was terminated so not everything appeared there) for your eyes / ears / brain to spend time on (as no longer active on Twitter or on LinkedIn much).
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“The day all billionaires died…”
by u/thisecommercelife in thisecommercelife
“Happy birthday, Lara! This month marks 30 years since Ms Croft first swan-dived into our lives with her unique blend of athletic prowess, archaeological expertise and giant knockers. More than 100 million Tomb Raider games have been sold since. We all remember the good times: the bold design and sheer playability of the original titles; the establishment of Lara as a 90s icon, embodying both lads’ mag culture and girl power; the way she made games cool, even appearing on the cover of the Face. We’ve had blockbuster movies, big budget reboots, and shiny reissues. And who could forget the time we got to powerwash her house? But no one gets to 30 without a few skeletons in the closet – or in Lara’s case, butlers in the freezer. So here’s a look at the darker parts of her past.”
Lara Croft is 30! We look at the video game icon’s biggest blunders | Games | The Guardian
“It’s like trying to communicate with a complex, unknown civilization, but without a bilingual translator, Gruber says, comparing it to the science fiction film Arrival, where scientists race to decode the language of aliens from outer space. He can’t wait to find out what the whales are saying. Maybe their intelligence is expressed in something like epic poetry or oral history, recounting great deeds from the deep depths of the sea in clicks. Perhaps there is a Homer among them, he muses. We simply don’t know… yet.”
Decoding whale language with AI | Introducing the CETI project
“The sagas say that the most famous settler, Erik the Red, arrived in Iceland in around 960 after his father was banished from Norway for murder. In the year 932, the Icelanders had established a parliament, the Althing. It was an open-air assembly of the whole nation, meeting every summer for a fortnight for legislative and judicial purposes – and it took place in a remarkable setting, inside a ravine that made an extraordinary natural amphitheatre. “It isn’t just the acoustics that make this place special,” Lethbridge told the BBC. “This is a natural fault line. We’re on the point where the North American and the Eurasian tectonic plates meet.” The first Europeans to explore North America happened to have sited one of their parliaments in a rift valley between the two continents.”
‘They were people who took chances’: The Vikings who reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus
“We downloaded the full history of 23 pieces of software that phones, browsers and servers depend on, and counted everyone who made ten or more changes to each one between October 2025 and October 2026. Then we listed what is actually installed on an Android phone, an iPhone and a Windows PC. 11 of 23 projects had one or two people doing the regular work.”
The people holding up the internet | Data Drop
“Citizens’ assemblies can be a powerful social tool for fostering understanding across social strata, says Buklijaš. “Although we all live in the same city, we don’t necessarily talk to each other.” People tend to cluster with others of similar education and social background – and are less often members of clubs and political parties, where people might gather across such divides. “This is where the problem with democracy starts – once we don’t meet, and we don’t talk with people who are politically different, and maybe socially different,” says Buklijaš.”
Can a room full of strangers solve problems MPs can’t? – Newsroom
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EXPLORE
Check out the Experience House Mastermind Artist Grant which provides a scholarship (a $9,600USD value) to join a year-long program as part of this intriguing event / community.
Destroy Any Website is an in-browser crazy mad game where you get to literally shoot up any website you want!
motba.art is a curated and growing list of artists who commit to long-duration and daily creative practices.
BIGWORDS.PAGE turns your screen into a sign, timer, countdown etc, for free with lots of creative use cases.
Checkbox Olympics is a bunch of in-browser mini-games to test your clicking accuracy and speed.
Lofi Cities is a cute in-browser pixel-art city representation plus lofi music composed.
ascii.rest: curated / created animated ascii art for web pages.
LISTEN
The latest episode of the fireside.rs podcast where we feature and celebrate plus learn from those who craft spaces for humans to actively belong and be creatively productive—for full show notes check out #10 Sapience + Podcast With Trent Yeo | November 2026.
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