{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Links For July 2026 (Part 1)","description":"[I haven\u2019t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can\u2019t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.] 1: You Are Quoting Bentham: Shakespeare gets credit for coining the most new commonly-used English words, but second place must go to utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who invented maximize, minimize, international, percentage, monetary, marginalize, collaborator, unaffordable, the prefixes self-, post-, and infra-, and many more. He also sort of invented jogging? [EDIT: some skepticism] 2: @HashtagGriswold: The name of \u201cAcme\u201d, the generic corporation from Looney Tunes, is a \u201cgag lost to time\u201d. During the early 20th century, hundreds of companies named themselves Acme because it was at the intersection of signaling quality (\u201cacme\u201d is Greek for \u201cpinnacle\u201d) and being very early in the alphabet (meaning it would come first in the phone book, a \u201cGreat Depression version of SEO\u201d). 3: @nekokolife brings us a great predictive coding demo (hard before you know the answer; obvious afterwards) - find the cat in this image. Hint: it\u2019s not hiding in shadow; its entire body is fully visible. Answer here (X). https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/links-for-july-2026-part-1 ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"