Human 304: lecture notes from a future history
A five-part speculative history of computation, presented as lecture notes written in 2057 and delivered to readers in 2026.
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BudgetState: Dutch municipal budgets versus actual spending
A public-data project compares what Dutch municipalities budgeted with what they later reported spending and receiving.
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Butte, Montana, Descending Through Its Mining History
An image-rich, interactive history follows Butte from its 1864 gold camp through the copper boom, labor conflicts, underground workings, and the Berkeley Pit.
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Caring Voice turns care logs into first-person reports
The service gives caregivers a shared page to log someone’s day, then sends families a report written from that person’s perspective.
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ClearOrbit’s public ledger for orbital debris
A public-facing orbital-debris project combining catalog counts, source notes, briefings, future scenarios, and a plan for debris removal.
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The Cuneiform Project’s tablet-reading walkthrough
A public-interest research project pairs AI-assisted cuneiform research with a step-by-step presentation of an ancient letter.
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Project Silo’s public evidence archive
datacenteraccountabilityproject.org
A Colorado community-accountability project organizes public records, unresolved questions, policy material, and action dates around a proposed data-center development near Brighton.
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Dawn, a functional language with two compiler backends
Dawn is a functional programming language with effects in its type signatures, a self-hosted compiler, and JVM and C targets.
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Docudis: redact a document before sending it to AI
A free, open-source app that replaces personal details in text, PDFs, Word files, and photos with labels, then can restore them in an AI’s reply.
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Don’s Dropshipping Liquidators: The Internet’s Warehouse
donsdropshippingliquidators.biz
A deadpan-looking, early-web-styled liquidation storefront stocked with absurd deals and conspicuously questionable merchandise.
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El Colegiado makes Liga refereeing searchable
An open research site for exploring Spanish Liga match and refereeing data, with filters, comparisons, analysis and downloadable tables.
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Flagged Goods, the marketplace safety-alert ledger
A searchable database of official EU and US dangerous-product alerts, organized by the online marketplaces named in the records.
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LowOps maps the hazards below 2,000 feet
An electronic flight bag for low-level aviation, with offline maps, flight planning, logs, and directional obstacle alerts.
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Fondofmen: a freshness launch with no freshness claims
A deliberately overproduced parody launch for a novelty freshness product, complete with a brand film, a can, and no current way to buy it.
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The eChallan page that asks Android to sideload an APK
It presents itself as India’s eChallan service, but pairs a vehicle-verification prompt with instructions to sideload an Android app.
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END Gambling Donations maps money into UK politics
A prototype resource tracking gambling-linked donations, gifts, and paid work involving UK parties and politicians since 2007.
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Game Yokocho: Eleven Games in a Browser Arcade
A no-install browser arcade with eleven small games, arranged as shops along a virtual Japanese night alley.
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GLOOPRAVE’s three-move beat duel
A free browser instrument for building short synthesized loops, sharing them by link, and challenging a friend to remix one.
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golden_test brings a device matrix to Flutter visual tests
A Flutter package that renders widgets across configured themes, locales, devices, and text scales, then compares the images with saved goldens.
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Greased Up Simulator: The Tallow Warehouse
A playable warehouse-shift game where you render beef tallow, fill orders, and earn Bud Light.
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Handpan Lab: A Playable Instrument Workshop
A browser-based workspace for building a handpan layout, playing it, and exploring interval patterns across a multi-instrument scene.
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Hearthafter: A place to haunt
A fictional interactive placement service pairs a household with two wandering spirits and guides them through considering a shared home.
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A €29.4 Million Card, Sentimentally Priced
A made-up trading-card marketplace presents a single hand-painted original with the trappings of a high-end collectible listing.
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Heddohon shares your music without putting the music server on the internet
A self-hosted web music player for Navidrome, Subsonic, and Jellyfin, with synced listening, shareable tracks, and high-resolution audio.