The Latest from the Bureau's Pinboard
- Nick Bostrom’s Home Page
Philosopher Macrostrategy Research Initiative Prev: Prof & Founding Dir, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Univ (2005–24) "The world is quickening, and the birth of superintelligence presumably not very far off. Currently mostly thinking about AI-related stuff. But so much is happening that monitoring the situation risks becoming a full-time occupation."
- Learn TypeScript - Introduction
Free Interactive TypeScript Tutorial
- Mushroom Collection Photos
Download The BEST Free Mushroom Collection Stock Photos & HD Images
- Regular Benchmarks
Regular Benchmarks tracks how AI shows up in ordinary life. What it recommends, how it handles day-to-day stuff, and what people actually think of it all.
- Home of the Happy Berry Farms
Local Self-Sustainable Family U-PICK-IT Farm in South Carolina near Lake Keowee. Best time to git pickin': May-Sept: Blueberries, Blackberries, Figs, Muscadines
- Newsletter Platform
Create Newsletters and Websites
AI & Machine Learning
- "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" by David MacKay
A unified, application-driven introduction to how probability, entropy, coding, and Bayesian inference explain data compression, reliable communication, and machine learning methods
- Huggingface
Models, Datasets and Other AI Tools
- Beatoven
AI Music Generator
- Conceptnet
An open, multilingual knowledge graph
- Agent Skills Marketplace
Explore public GitHub SKILL.md examples to discover unfamiliar uses or gather references before shaping a Skill of your own
- The Ghost in the Ledger - 6/17/2026
- Welcome to the Mediumocracy - 4/24/2026
- Non-human Citizens United? - 4/17/2026
- A Final Act Of Kindness: Dolly Parton’s Will Specifies That Her Breast Implants Be Split Amongst Seven Illiterate Children - 9/22/2026
- Heartbreaking: Everyone Thinks This Man Uses A Flip Phone To Avoid The Pitfalls Of Smartphones But It’s Actually Just Because He’s Poor - 9/21/2026
- Evening Things Out: Six Of The TVs In This Hotel’s Breakfast Area Are Playing Fox News, But The Other One Is Playing Funny Animal Videos - 9/16/2026
🪀 Web Toys
- .:: Daily Mini Maze ::.
Mazes.
- The Shepard Tone
An auditory illusion that sounds like it's endlessly rising (or falling) in pitch, but never actually goes anywhere. Click to start!
- Draw Corporate Logos From memory
That's it. Draw a logo from memory, see if you're right. 🙄
- Fortune Cookie Choas
Each day, crack open 5 fortune cookies and sort them.
- Eel Slap
Slap the dude with an eel. Highly satisfying
News & Media
- Breaking Points
Well-rounded, fearless and anti-establishment
- Hacker News
All the news that's fit to scan
- Substack
Independent Voices
- Slashdot
The original Reddit
- Ground.news
Every side of every news story
Handy Web Development Tools
- Can I Use?
"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
- Big List of Free and Open Public APIs (No Auth Needed)
A useful list of Application Protocol Interfaces (APIs) with no auth for testing and experiments.
- Color Picker
Great tool for exploring palettes and harmonies
- Typescale
Excellent tool for exploring typography and harmonic type systems.
- CSS Button Generator
The old school way of crafting CTA buttons
Short Attention Span Theater
No video longer than two minutes! (Mostly) All the videos are funny except for the ones are creepy. Just skip past those if you don't like them. Yeesh. Anyway, short stuff for people who... people who can... what was I saying?
Game Theory Arcade
Simulations and interactive games offer a hands-on way to learn about non-zero-sum concepts, strategic thinking, and emergent phenomena. Below is a collection of our playable experiments.
Top 5 Totally Pointless Web Site
- Eggman
Feed the Eggman. Beware the Eggman. He lies.
- Etch-a-Sketch
A great way to drive yourself mad.
- Banana-based Length & Distance Unit Converter
Convert weights and distances into bananas.
- Pung in a Rug
Honor the Pug
- Snapegiator
Play snake but make music while you do.