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The Examined Mind, taught by a SudoTwin

examinedmind.institute ↗ · AI Table · score 79.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A 40-module critical-thinking course in which an on-screen recreation of instructor Steve Outtrim waits while students advance through lessons and complete graded assignments.

Why it surfaced

This is an unusually elaborate attempt to turn a synthetic instructor into a self-paced teacher: the course claims the recreation was built from Outtrim’s own work, stays on the current slide, and does not auto-play ahead. At $1,776, with a certificate awarded after twenty passing modules, it also captures the increasingly strange overlap between online education, credentialing, and AI likenesses.

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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers

August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.

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