Gilbert Williams art –> https://www.gilbertwilliamsart.com/

Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use –> https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-admits-ai-cod...

The Cthulhu Mythos in Strange Tales – Since Strange Tales appeared in the early 1930s, it was fortunate to grab some of the Cthulhu Mythos stories written by H. P. Lovecraft’s circle. These tales are not central works like most of Lovecraft’s stories, the early Bloch or Henry Kuttner. These all appeared in the “Unique Magazine”. The five tales are Cthulhu Mythos either through obvious references or by being related to other more important pieces. Not all are minor league stories as one story in Bates’ magazine was the first appearance of a Cthulhu Mythos deity. H. P. Lovecraft’s name is missing, but it isn’t as you will see. –> https://gwthomas.org/the-cthulhu-mythos-in-strange-tales/

Street Art Gems From Mexico (29 Photos) –> https://streetartutopia.com/2026/05/09/street-art-gems-from-mexico/

Funny Sculptures With a Clever Twist (12 Photos) –> https://streetartutopia.com/2026/05/09/street-artists-made-funny-...

OpenGame - Φτιάξε web games με τεχνητή νοημοσύνη από μία απλή περιγραφή – Το OpenGame είναι ένα ανοικτού κώδικα project που προσπαθεί να κάνει κάτι πολύ ενδιαφέρον. Να μετατρέπει μία απλή περιγραφή σε ένα λειτουργικό web game. Με απλά λόγια, γράφεις τι παιχνίδι θέλεις να δημιουργήσεις και το OpenGame αναλαμβάνει να φτιάξει τον βασικό κώδικα, τη δομή και τα αρχεία του παιχνιδιού. –> https://www.dwrean.net/2026/05/opengame-web-games.html

Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs –> https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fury-google-chrome-a...

A love letter to cassette futurism – Is this aesthetic the antidote to digital burnout? –> https://twistedwonderland.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-cassett...

Get a Private Night of Stargazing When You Book This Airbnb With Its Own Observatory –> https://mymodernmet.com/airbnb-with-private-observatory/

“Distant Echoes – European Myths & Legends” Curated by Rossella Paolini at Curio Art Gallery –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/distant-echoes-rossella-paolini/

A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom – The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim picture. Using AI chatbots can impair critical thinking, result in lower brain activity during cognitive tasks, and has been linked to memory loss. –> https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-ai-good-for-st...

The Chain Story – The Chain Story Project is cooperative effort of authors, artists and publishers to share with readers new work by new people. The stories offered are free (at least for a limited time) and are yours to download and collect. –> https://www.chainstorycore.com/blog

More Torre Pentel – We’re overdue another Torre Pentel aka Alejandro Torrecilla appreciation post and his latest post today is reason enough as he’s broken the mold somewhat, leaving his hip hop and jazz heroes for something totally differnt; King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard! –> https://www.djfood.org/more-torre-pentel/

Edmund Dulac’s In the Kingdom of the Pearl – An unusual commission for Edmund Dulac, being a work of non-fiction published in France in 1920, with a British edition following in the same year. The author, Léonard Rosenthal, was a French diamond merchant who wrote a handful of books intended to celebrate and promote his line of business, of which this was the first. In the Kingdom of the Pearl is a history of the pearl-fishing trade and the use of pearls in jewellery, decoration and storytelling. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/04/edmund-dulacs...

Dangerous Frontiers – by Caldwell, Steven –> https://archive.org/details/dangerous-frontiers/mode/2up

Read Jack London’s sci-fi fantasy tale “The Red One” –> https://biblioklept.org/2026/04/28/read-jack-londons-sci-fi-fanta...

Σχόλιο πάνω στο μανιτάρι της ΑΙ, και ένας λόγος υπέρ του ποδόσφαιρου! – Η εικόνα που συνοδεύει το κείμενο, συνοψίζει με πολύ εύστοχο χιούμορ ένα μάλλον σοβαρό ζήτημα. –> https://dangerfew.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post.html

The Science of Spooky Sounds – A conversation with a “pseudoscience” researcher about how infrasound could be linked to ghosts –> https://nautil.us/the-science-of-spooky-sounds-1280228

The Sword of Shannara: The Critics Fifty Years Later –> https://gwthomas.org/the-sword-of-shannara-the-critics-fifty-year...

Janusz Jurek Embraces the Weirdness of Everyday Life in Captivating Street Photographs – Humor and happenstance take the front seat in Polish photographer Janusz Jurek’s wry images. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/janusz-jurek-street-photog...

Matthew Hansel’s Hidden Demons – He calls the project the Morbid Delectatio. The gruesome delight. Those aspects of ourselves and the lives we lead that repel and attract, disgust and seduce. –> https://hifructose.com/2026/04/23/matthew-hansels-hidden-demons/

Kissed by the Whimsical: The Resilient Sculptures of Forest Rogers – Some artworks ask to be looked at; Forest Rogers’ sculptures ask to be met. –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/resilient-sculptures-of-forest-rogers/

True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” ) –> https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2026/04/true-comics-december-1...

Books Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien During His Lifetime –> https://sysgol100.substack.com/p/tolkien-oddments

Fauxnan the Barbarian – A veritable cornucopia of dodgy barbarian and barbarian-adjacent movies –> https://www.blackgate.com/2026/05/02/fauxnan-the-barbarian/

Embracing a solarpunk future – From forest buildings to flying wind turbines, biodomes and sponge cities, there's lots of interesting projects happening around the world –> https://twistedwonderland.substack.com/p/embracing-a-solarpunk-future

Léon Carré’s In the Garden of Gems – Léonard Rosenthal’s follow-up to In the Kingdom of the Pearl was this volume with illustrations by Léon Carré. In the Garden of Gems was published in 1924 in an edition that matches the earlier book for page layout, print quality and decoration. The illustrator, Léon Carré (1878–1942), was more of a painter than a book illustrator, being one of the many Orientalist artists that France produced in the 19th century. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/06/leon-carres-i...

Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965 –> https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/buckminster-fuller-creates-an...

Jorge R. Guiterrez: The Heart of Mexican Culture – Jorge R. Guiterrez captures the heart of Mexican culture. Whether you experience his work on a cinema screen or on a gallery wall, his artistic world showcasing life, death, mythology, and pop culture will leave an unforgettable impression on you. –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/jorge-r-gutierrez-interview/

Art on film: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman – a book review for The Spectator in which Michael Moorcock notes similarities between the film and the stories by JG Ballard which were collected as Vermilion Sands. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/04/27/art-on-film-p...

The Forgotten Comics: Daral – Timothy Truman was a much newer guy. He was a recent graduate of the School of Cartoon & Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey. He got his start doing artwork for role-playing game magazines, then some comics for the same, Ares, in particular. Later he would go on to write and draw the post-apocalyptic Grimjack in the 1980s, and later still, a few Conan comics. But before that, he asked Gardner F. Fox for a story… –> https://gwthomas.org/the-forgotten-comics-daral/

Dreams and Daydreams –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/dreams-and-daydreams/

Scientists Studied 906 Mafia Marriages and Found Something Surprising – Scientists analyzed over 900 marriages within the ’Ndrangheta, one of the most infamous mafia syndicates, to understand how “matrimonial ties relate to power and cohesion within the organization.” –> https://www.404media.co/scientists-studied-906-mafia-marriages-an...

3 Wyrd Things – Jocelyn Brooke - The Image of a Drawn Sword – The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes – The Company of Wolves –> https://wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/04/3-wyrd-things-alex-older.html

Does reading do us any good? – Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead – Does reading turn us into better people? Does it make us more sensitive and empathetic? Does it improve our judgment? And if it is not edifying, then what good does it do? –> https://aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-perso...

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened – In 2024, a team led by University of Gothenburg medical researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström invented a fake disease that called “bixonimania.” The fictional skin condition, they said, was caused by staring at screens for too long and rubbing one’s eyes too much. – Meanwhile, AI chatbots continue to dole out dangerous health advice to often unsuspecting users. A quick perusal of Osmanovic Thunström’s papers by virtually anybody, scientist or not, would’ve immediately clocked the ruse. The fake papers make peculiar references to “Star Trek,” “The Simpsons,” and “The Lord of the Rings” to raise obvious red flags. But despite all that, AI chatbots including Microsoft’s Bing Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity’s AI search engine became convinced that “bixonimania” was real. –> https://futurism.com/future-society/fake-disease-trick-ai

HP Lovecraft The Complete Fiction –> https://archive.org/details/hp-lovecraft-the-complete-fiction/mode/2up