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I bring you the finest Internet reading in my weekly Linkfest

A photo of the “Cosmic Flare Oil Wheel” by Optikinetics. It is a round wheel, flat like a record in a record player, seen from above. It has multicolored splashes of paint/dye all over it in irregular patters — blobs of orange, areas of yellow and white, blue and red too. The periphery of the disk is dark black, as the center — Cosmic Flare Oil Wheel” by Optikinetics

It’s time for my weekly Linkfest — in which I collect together the finest stuff I could find in the last week of surfing the intertubes. I’ve done 64 of these so far.

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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net