Clive Thompson on Nostr: Okay people 📣 It's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling" 📖 The latest issue ...

Okay people 📣

It's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling" 📖

The latest issue of my newsletter, "The Linkfest", just dropped 📬

Free to read here, subscribe via pay-whatevs-you-want, including free: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-13-17th-century-chatgpt-the-merovingian/

This issue includes:
🏛 17th-century ChatGPT
🎀 the "Merovingian" knot
🎧 CT scans of Airpods
🧊 "superionic" ice
☀️ pixels made of bioluminescent algae
❓ the "blood footprint" mystery
⚔️ how historically accurate is the armor in Baldur's Gate, anyway

AND MORE