Quick Links for Tuesday, August 8

Elliot McGucken captures a full Moon through the North Window Arch at Arches National Park in Utah.

› Reminds me a bit of this.

My small, no-name company has completely lost its mind with AI.

› You just know this shit is happening everywhere with every middle-manager through CTOs/CEOs, especially with those who actually know very little about technology generally (yes, this includes many CTOs), and certainly nothing about AI specifically. I can’t wait for more stories like this to come out.

‘X’ marks the unknown in algebra, but its origins are a mystery. Fascinating.

This guy goes DEEP on Tolkien’s iconic map of Middle Earth.

This database of recently extinct, missing and rediscovered plants, animals and fungi “attempts to document the world's many recently extinct (126ka–present), missing and rediscovered species and subspecies.”