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50 completely new websites that can turn a quick visit into hours of exploring Earth 🌍👇
1. accessmars.withgoogle.com — Explore Mars in 3D
2. dinosaurpictures.org/ancient… — Where your city was millions of years ago
3. chronozoom.com — Timeline from Big Bang to now
4. hereistoday.com — Feel the true scale of time
5. stars.chromeexperiments.com — Fly through 100,000 stars
6. radiooooo.com — Music by any country + decade
7. musicmap.info — Explore the map of music genres
8. driveandlisten.herokuapp.com — Drive through cities with local radio
9. zoomquilt.org — Infinite zooming artwork
10. weavesilk.com — Create silk-like digital art
11. mynoise.net — Powerful ambient sound generator
12. asoftmurmur.com — Mix your own soundscapes
13. patatap.com — Make music by pressing keys
14. pointerpointer.com — People pointing at your cursor
15. hackertyper.net — Fake hacker terminal
16. findtheinvisiblecow.com — Find the invisible cow
17. koalastothemax.com — Zoom into koalas forever
18. s2maps.eu — Ultra high-res satellite imagery
19. apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-bro… — Free Earth observation tool
20. n2yo.com — Live satellite & ISS tracker
21. spaceweather.com — Real-time space weather
22. solarham.net — Solar data & aurora forecasts
23. wikiarchives.space — Huge free space photo archive
24. oculi-mundi.com — Ancient maps, atlases & globes
25. castlemap.com — Interactive map of 2400+ castles
26. omnesviae.org — Ancient Roman roads planner
27. arcanum.com/en/maps — Historical maps collection
28. futuretimeline.net — Possible future timelines
29. earth2050.earth — Visual predictions of Earth 2050
30. worldpopulationhistory.org — Interactive population history
31. timelineofhistory.com — Interactive history timeline
32. 100000stars.net — Deep interactive star map
33. sky-map.org — Online sky atlas
34. astroviewer.net — ISS & satellite passes
35. stuffin.space — 3D objects in Earth orbit
36. satellite-map.space — Live satellite positions
37. spectator.earth — Track Earth-imaging satellites
38. lofi.cafe — Cozy lofi spaces
39. citylines.co — Historical transit maps
40. wikimapia.org — Collaborative annotated world map
41. geoguessr.com Drop into random places
42. randomstreetview.com — Pure random Street View
43. scribblemaps.com — Create & explore custom maps
44. kepler.gl/demo — Geospatial data explorer
45. livingatlas.arcgis.com — Interactive global maps
46. climateexplorer.app — Climate & weather data tools
47. floodmap.net — Sea level rise explorer
48. ancientearth.com — Ancient Earth viewer
49. shouldseethis.com — Fresh curated cool websites
50. chronozoom.com — Deep timeline experience
The internet still has so many hidden corners.
🔖 Bookmark this for later.
Follow for more rare finds. 🚀
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Matthew Waller retweeted
50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring 👇🏼
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this list. You’ll probably come back to a few of these later. 🔖
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Matthew Waller retweeted
Marc Andreessen says AI is teaching sand to think and it could be the most important technology in the history of humanity:
"Imagine a form of alchemy that turns sand into thought."
"Chips are made out of sand. They're made out of silicon, so they're literally made out of sand."
"We plug the chip into a data center, into power, we light it up, and we put AI on it, and all of a sudden it's thinking."
"We've turned sand into thought. And so it's possibly the most revolutionary technology in the history of the species."
"It's certainly on par with electricity and steam power. It's certainly more important than the internet."
@pmarca with @joerogan
Matthew Waller retweeted
Mounting evidence of productivity lift across high-AI industries
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Matthew Waller retweeted
250 years ago, thirteen colonies laid the foundation for the greatest and most enduring democracy in the history of the world.
One driven by courage, faith, and freedom. From that moment, we became a nation defined not by where we stood, but by how far we were willing to go. We conquered vast frontiers, invented tools that shaped the modern world.
We found light in the dark, and we rose from the earth. Faster, higher, farther, we pushed beyond the sky and into the unknown. We carried our courage into the cosmos, and we planted the American flag on the moon, the defining achievement of American superiority in space.
Today, our curiosity stretches farther than ever. American robots search ancient rivers on Mars. New telescopes unfold to glimpse the first stars. And a new generation prepares to return to the moon, this time to stay.
For 250 years, America has carried the light of humanity forward. But American exceptionalism isn’t inherited, it’s earned. Our greatness comes not only from what we’ve done, but what we’re still determined to discover. Because in every era, across every horizon, America is at its best when it’s reaching for something greater.
America celebrates 250 years, and we are leading the world into the future.
Three recent data releases are worth looking at together.
Individually, they’re interesting.
Taken together, they may suggest something more structural is happening in the economy.
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Recent data are directionally consistent with that pattern:
• Near-5% productivity growth
• AI-linked capital formation driving a large share of GDP growth
• Inflation holding in the mid-2% range
That doesn’t prove causality. But the signals are stacking.
I’ve been paying close attention to AI, trying to separate signal from noise.
There’s no shortage of opinions:
“AI isn’t delivering yet” vs. “AI is changing everything.”
I don’t see either extreme. But I do see a few economic signals worth paying attention to.
Capital doesn’t chase demos.
If AI-related investment is that large a share of GDP growth, it suggests firms are moving beyond pilots and committing real capital to infrastructure, workflows, and capability build-out.
That’s a different phase of adoption.
I've been paying close attention to AI and trying to separate signal from noise.
I read a lot of opinions. Everything from "AI isn't delivering real benefits yet" to "AI is already changing everything." In my own work, I get a window into how companies across the size spectrum are actually using it. My view is partial, but it's informed by real deployments. And my impression is that over the past year or so, AI is being applied more effectively than the press sometimes suggests. Less toy demos, more workflows that genuinely change throughput and decision speed.
Still, one macro signal caught my attention.
BLS data shows nonfarm business productivity increased at a 4.9% annualized rate in Q3 2025, while unit labor costs fell 1.9% (the first consecutive quarterly decline since 2019). That combination is unusual. Productivity surging and unit costs falling at the same time is what you'd expect if AI is starting to function as an efficiency shock rather than just a cost center.
This doesn't mean every firm has cracked the code. But it might suggest that, in aggregate, AI-enabled tools are now improving output per hour fast enough to show up in official statistics.
To me, that points to a real possibility: AI may be crossing the line from experimentation to economic impact.
Curious what others are seeing. Where has AI genuinely improved throughput, decision quality, or speed? And where is it still hype?
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