Edition #67 of my free newsletter, Curated Commons, on all things tech, biz, science, algorithmic future, Internet weirdness, and more now out! Just a bunch of interesting links, hand-curated. Read and share away! 🙏
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Meet the material that ‘learns’ - Nickel Oxide
Fascinating research that shows Nickel Oxide might have learning behavior. Can it help advance AI?
theconversation.com/nickel-oxide-i
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The OG of OGs
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Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years watching grindcore bands. She could come and go as she pleased and, in the words of her rescuers, “escaped death, lived punk”. Absolute legend.
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This is a very interesting read taking us back in time to when photographers made fake photographs, usually of "spirits", and what that might mean for the deepfake world we live in. Some famous fake pics from history in it!
smithsonianmag.com/innovation/his
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We now have a functioning 8-bit CPU...INSIDE MINECRAFT.
Next step- port Doom, Quake 😂
Eventually - a CPU capable of running Minecraft inside Minecraft. That's the true Metaverse 😂
pcworld.com/article/559794
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Bugs on the plate! The EU has now formally certified as fit for human consumption three categories of bugs - Crickets, Mealworms, and Grasshoppers.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Gaming inside a spreadsheet. Fab thread!
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SPREADSHEET GAMES 
Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren't enough games that run *in* spreadsheets.
But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Google Sheets:
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Can imagine myself eating bug powder and artificial meat while playing spreadsheet games 😂