Here is a small compilation of things that have been useful/inspiring for me, both personally as well as in my works.
Websites
Useful
Gather.town https://www.gather.town/
Japanese conjugation https://baileysnyder.com/jconj/
Interesting
The Evolution of Trust https://ncase.me/trust/
20 Objects of Wonder https://imitationgameexhibition.ca/20-Objects-of-Wonder
Atlas of Blobs https://atlasofblobs.cc/
Feedback Control Dot Com https://feedbackcontrol.com/
Books I've Read Lately and Liked
The Age of Earthquakes, A Guide to the Extreme Present - Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar
It's Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics - Robert Jensen
The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects - Marshall McLuhan
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou
Disappearance Diary - Hideo Azuma
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Blacksad - Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido
Favorite Quotes
ChatGPT convinced me that a soul exists because I've seen student reports without one - Anonymous.
To be fully human is to reject a system that conditions your pleasure on someone else's pain ...I believe we all want to be fully human. - Robert Jensen
Nowadays men often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct: What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieux, they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel. - C Wright Mills.
...there are no strangers. There are only versions of ourselves, many of which we have not embraced, most of which we wish to protect ourselves from. For the stranger is not foreign, she is random; not alien but remembered; and it is the randomness of the encounter with our already known — although unacknowledged — selves that summons a ripple of alarm. That makes us reject the figure and the emotions it provokes — especially when these emotions are profound. - Toni Morrison