Late September Link Roundup
- A new paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters presents evidence suggesting that Earth had rings during the middle ordovician; specifically, they analyzed the location of several impact craters from this period and concluded that, at the time when they happened, they would have all hit around the equator.
- An update on
wordfreq, a longstanding dataset of word frequencies in English writing found on the open internet: the maintainer, Robyn Speer, is no longer updating it, citing both the closing-down of previously open sources and the high volume of AI slop now choking the internet. - My good friend Laura Michet went into a random little shop in a strip mall and found a toy line with her name on it. What ensues is a rabbit hole at the intersection of the vinyl tat explosion and the creator griftconomy.
- Erica (Aurahack) pretty much says it all about the rot of social media metrics and how much Cohost did just by doing away with them.
- Just under a year ago, I wrote a little shitpost on Cohost about espresso. To my surprise and delight, this prompted a whole short story.