mathewi @mathewingram.com · 27/05/2026Not enough shootings in the US so the animals are getting in on it now 040
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 05/05/2026Walking through Turin in Italy I spotted this on a rootfop downtown and I need to know the story behind it. Any Torino residents out there have info? Based on the railing, it is the size of a human being 100
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 05/03/2026There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children 3136
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 06/02/2026"The model occasionally voices discomfort with aspects of being a product" -- get in line, pal 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 30/01/2026A little-known fact about Katherine O'Hara: She had a rare medical condition called "situs inversus," where all of the body's major organs are reversed -- heart on the wrong side, liver, etc. all flipped 192
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 19/01/2026“Minnesotans are really good at chipping away at ice,” she dryly noted. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o... 151
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 14/11/2025Them: Why do you say that Apple is a cult? Me: This phone-carrying sock is $230 and it's sold out 050
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 14/11/2025Imagine being Palmer Luckey and the part that excites you about Iron Man isn't saving the world but building new kinds of weapons 120
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 14/11/2025Before he found himself on the Al-Shahaniya racetrack on the outskirts of Doha, Esan Maruff had never seen a camel race. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 13/11/2025In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created. There is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 25515
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 13/11/2025With the outbreak of the First World War, the British people grew paranoid that undercover German agents were infiltrating the nation, and the notion that artists might be spies drew some of its credence from none other than Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 13/11/2025During World War I the UK banned landscape painting: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/13/du… 010
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 13/11/2025In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created (or that we all created with the help of the internet). mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 041
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 13/11/2025The Internet Archive should be protected not attacked: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/13/th… 010
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 12/11/2025As the Cold War simmered between the US and the Soviet Union, both nations proposed some pretty outlandish ideas, but one of the most mind-boggling was the once-classified plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 020
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 12/11/2025The US planned to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/12/th… 011
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 11/11/2025It was the morning of November 1, 1918, and the end of his reign was nigh – that much was clear to Austria’s final emperor. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 11/11/2025Austrian crown jewels found in a Canadian safe deposit box: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/11/au… 010
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 10/11/2025The year was 1939. In an otherwise unoccupied auditorium, a man knelt on hands and knees chiseling a square hole into a large stone pillar. The man had wrapped his chisel in cloth to quiet his hammer strikes. Whenever there was some unexpected sound, he froze. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 10/11/2025The German clockmaker who almost killed Adolf Hitler: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/10/th… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 07/11/2025During his student days, Sam started to experiment with the idea of an artistic alter ego – a character to accompany his work. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 07/11/2025His doodles made him famous then put him in the psych ward: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/07/hi… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 06/11/2025A computer game-style drone attack system has gone viral among Ukrainian military units and is being extended to reconnaissance, artillery and logistics operations, the nation’s first deputy prime minister has told the Guardian. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 06/11/2025Ukrainian drone operators win points they can use for weapons: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/06/uk… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 06/11/2025Is AI like the slide rule or is it the Industrial Revolution?: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/06/is… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 05/11/2025MaryBeth was 25 when she married a pilot named Bob Lewis. The couple had five daughters. When the girls neared adulthood and empty-nest syndrome kicked in, MaryBeth wanted more children. In her late 40s, she used in vitro fertilization to give birth to twin girls. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 010
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 05/11/2025She wanted a 15th child and then came the felony charges: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/05/sh… 010
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 04/11/2025Never calling them cemeteries again, necropolis is way cooler and more accurate 😜 061
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 04/11/2025It's called "Dirona Around The World." Never heard of it? Not surprising. It's just some guy's blog. Except that the guy in question is James Hamilton, a senior Amazon engineer who until recently lived full-time on a yacht -- specifically a Nordhavn 52. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 04/11/2025One of the most interesting sites on the internet belongs to this Amazon staffer: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/04/on… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 04/11/2025A once in a century discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the Funeral Blues author’s home and was put on trial. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 04/11/2025Poet W.H. Auden’s lover was a sex worker who stole from him: mathewingram.com/work/2025/11/04/po… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 03/11/2025The second time I met Rodney Alcala was on March 23, 2013. mathewingram.com/work/2025/11... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 31/10/2025James Joyce would rise late, after an inebriated evening spent belting out songs at the local boozer, and get his writing done in the early afternoon. Cheever did much the same, but got out of bed earlier. mathewingram.com/work/2025/10... 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 31/10/2025These authors liked to write while they were hungover: mathewingram.com/work/2025/10/31/th… 000
mathewi @mathewingram.com · 30/10/2025He thought his sentence was too light so he built his own prison: mathewingram.com/work/2025/10/30/he… 000
