cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50211530

Per their about page-

The Last Museum is the largest search engine for museum art. It uses semantic search, allowing you to search for artworks by theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine.

We currently have around 5 million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world.

Solo project I've been building this month, wanted to share here. The rules:

You get $10,000 and two secret years of real S&P 500 history, drawn from 1928 to 2019 (daily data, dividends included; your cash earns T-bill rates while you hide). One button: BUY or SELL. Your opponent is a couch. It buys at the start and never moves.

Every finished game is audited by 1,000 monkeys. It's a permutation test 1,000 replays with your same time in the market and same number of trades, on random days. Beat 90% of the monkeys and your win is stamped TIMED THE MARKET. Anything less is stamped LUCKY, in red ink, on your settlement document.

About 84,000 games have been played so far. The couch has won 63% of them. Roughly 1 game in 9 ends in a win that survives the monkey audit.

There's also a daily hand, same secret window for everyone, streaks, and a public ledger of humanity vs the couch.

If you have time, I'd love feedback, and I will answer any methodology questions, thanks!

Invidious link: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=vo5glK9czIE

draw.io is an interactive flow chart webpage so simple even someone stupid can use it

YouTube videos mixed with regional music curated to feel like you travel in cities around the world

I have spent much of the last two years updating my website to include artwork and scans from the original magazine/newspaper/anthology the stories were originally published in. I am still working on making reading on the website the most enjoyable experience it can be.

As always, any suggestions for authors and stories, as well as features for the website are appreciated.

Hope you can enjoy the stories as much as I do, Evan.

It's a long dead project, but still a beautiful site

Who would have thought that an eerie and creepy 3D chatroom game from the 90s, Worlds Chat, would still be somewhat active? We are so lucky that we can find out more about all of its internet mysteries from the past! Thus, let's explore it, and see if we can unearth anything about its famous urban legends!

From Tom Scott's newsletter. The associated blog post: https://kendraalbert.com/2025/07/21/lawyer-letters-without-lawyers.html

Its r/place but with text.

drawducks.com you can go there and draw a little duck and then let it waddle around in a global pool full of other users ducks. Oh and you can click the duck and make it go Quack!

Also, very important, if you click a duck to make it go Quack, surrounding ducks will quack back, and I just think that's neat.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30377150

Not a rant. Not nostalgia. Just a quiet piece that made me feel something. It doesn’t try to fix anything, it just notices what’s missing. This article made the silence feel honest.

From the description:

The year is 1518. Mexico-Tenochtitlan, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an empire ruling over, and receiving tribute from, more than 5 million people. Tenochtitlan is home to 200.000 farmers, artisans, merchants, soldiers, priests and aristocrats. At this time, it is one of the largest cities in the world.

Today, we call this city Ciudad de Mexico - Mexico City.

Not much is left of the old Aztec - or Mexica - capital Tenochtitlan. What did this city, raised from the lake bed by hand, look like? Using historical and archeological sources, and the expertise of many, I have tried to faithfully bring this iconic city to life.