Sources
The workshop is made up. The real world isn’t. Every fact on these sites about the real world, from Meinong to the free tier, rests on one of these 81 sources, each read on the date given, with the words that support it.
Meinong’s jungle
Alexius Meinong (Johann Marek; substantive revision 2023) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · plato.stanford.edu
Alexius Meinong Ritter von Handschuchsheim (b. 1853, d. 1920) was an Austrian philosopher and psychologist
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle.
Notes to Alexius Meinong (note 2, on Kneale) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · plato.stanford.edu
The main title of Routley 1980, Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond, is a critical allusion to the following passages from Kneale 1949
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle.
Nonexistent Objects (Maria Reicher; substantive revision 2022) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · plato.stanford.edu
The golden mountain encodes the property of being golden and the property of being a mountain.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle.
On Denoting (Bertrand Russell, 1905) Wikisource · en.wikisource.org
which is a false proposition, not, as Meinong maintains, a true one.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle.
On Denoting Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
It was published in the philosophy journal Mind in October 1905.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle. Its references give the volume and pages: 14: 479–493.
On What There Is (W. V. Quine), Review of Metaphysics 2, no. 5 (1948): 21–38 The Review of Metaphysics (a JSTOR scan hosted by the University of Warwick) · warwick.ac.uk
To be is, purely and simply, to be the value of a variable.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle. A course copy that may move; the stable reference is JSTOR 20123117. Its OCR reads “it that doorway” where the site has “in that doorway”.
On What There Is (the 1953 reprint’s wording) Wikisource · en.wikisource.org
To be assumed as an entity is, purely and simply, to be reckoned as the value of a variable.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle.
Probability and Induction (William Kneale, Clarendon Press, 1949) Internet Archive · archive.org
With the horrors of Meinong’s jungle fresh in our minds, we cannot accept such language until we are convinced that it is harmless.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle. The scan is lending-only; the words were read through the Internet Archive’s full-text search. The page numbers (12 and 32) are from the SEP’s note 2.
William Kneale Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
he later became a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Meinong’s jungle: On the jungle.
Fractals
Mandelbrot set Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Douady and Hubbard showed that the Mandelbrot set is connected.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Mandelbrot set, Fractals: Julia set. Also: “named the set in honor of Mandelbrot for his influential work in fractal geometry” and “a value of c belongs to the Mandelbrot set if and only if the corresponding Julia set is connected.”
Julia set Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
These sets are named after the French mathematicians Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou whose work began the study of complex dynamics
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Julia set.
Burning Ship fractal Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
The Burning Ship fractal, first described and created by Michael Michelitsch and Otto E. Rössler in 1992
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Burning Ship.
Tricorn (mathematics) Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
In mathematics, the tricorn, sometimes called the Mandelbar set, is a fractal defined in a similar way to the Mandelbrot set
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Tricorn.
Multibrot set Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
These sets include the origin and have fractal perimeters, with (d − 1)-fold rotational symmetry.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Multibrot.
Newton’s method Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Arthur Cayley in 1879 in The Newton–Fourier imaginary problem was the first to notice the difficulties in generalizing Newton's method to complex roots
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Newton fractal.
Lakes of Wada Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
all three disconnected open basins have the same boundary
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Newton fractal.
Newton fractal Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
a generalization of the Newton fractal with the addition of a value c at each step
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Nova.
Phoenix Julia Paul Bourke · paulbourke.net
First report by Shigehiro Ushiki was published in 1998 in a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems journal.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Phoenix. Other sources date Ushiki’s paper 1988; the card gives no year.
Magnet Paul Bourke · paulbourke.net
These fractals use formulae derived from the study of hierarchical lattices, in the context of magnetic renormalisation transformations.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Magnet.
Lyapunov fractal Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Lyapunov fractals were discovered in the late 1980s by the Germano-Chilean physicist Mario Markus
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Lyapunov fractal.
Barnsley fern Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
This coordinate transformation is chosen 1% of the time and just maps any point to a point in the first line segment …
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Barnsley fern.
Sierpiński triangle Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Wacław Sierpiński described the Sierpiński triangle in 1915.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Sierpiński triangle.
Sierpiński carpet Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
The Sierpiński carpet is a plane fractal first described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Sierpiński carpet.
Dragon curve Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
first investigated by NASA physicists John Heighway, Bruce Banks, and William Harter. It was described by Martin Gardner in his Scientific American column
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Heighway dragon.
Lévy C curve Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
now bears the name of French mathematician Paul Lévy, who was the first to describe its self-similarity properties
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Lévy C curve.
Koch snowflake Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Consequently, the snowflake encloses a finite area, but has an infinite perimeter.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Koch snowflake.
Hilbert curve Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
a continuous fractal space-filling curve first described by the German mathematician David Hilbert in 1891
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Hilbert curve.
Gosper curve Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
The Gosper curve, named after Bill Gosper, also known as the Peano-Gosper Curve and the flowsnake (a spoonerism of snowflake)
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Gosper curve.
Gosper Island Wolfram MathWorld · mathworld.wolfram.com
this curve bounds the space filled by the Peano-Gosper curve.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Gosper curve.
L-system Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
L-systems were introduced and developed in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: L-system plant.
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer) Springer (free PDF at algorithmicbotany.org) · algorithmicbotany.org
Figure 1.24: Examples of plant-like structures generated by bracketed OLsystems.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: L-system plant. The card’s plant is Fig. 1.24(f) mirrored, at 25° (Wikipedia’s “fractal plant” example).
Apollonian gasket Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
If any four mutually tangent circles in an Apollonian gasket all have integer curvature … then all circles in the gasket will have integer curvature.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Apollonian gasket.
Kleinian group Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
The theory of general Kleinian groups was founded by Felix Klein and Henri Poincaré, who named them after Felix Klein.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Kleinian limit set.
Indra’s Pearls (book) Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein is a geometry book written by David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Kleinian limit set.
Fractal flame Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Fractal flames are a member of the iterated function system class of fractals created by Scott Draves in 1992.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Fractal flame.
Mandelbulb Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
The Mandelbulb is a three-dimensional fractal developed in 2009 by Daniel White and Paul Nylander using spherical coordinates.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Mandelbulb.
Mandelbox Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
the mandelbox is a fractal with a boxlike shape found by Tom Lowe in 2010.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Mandelbox.
Mandelbox Wolfram MathWorld · mathworld.wolfram.com
Thus the box fold reflects each coordinate lying outside the hypercube
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Mandelbox.
Fractional Brownian motion Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
It was introduced by Mandelbrot & van Ness (1968).
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Domain-warped noise.
Domain warping Inigo Quilez · iquilezles.org
Warping simply means we distort the domain with another function g(p) before we evaluate f.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: Fractals: Domain-warped noise.
The Slop Curriculum
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? Model Context Protocol · modelcontextprotocol.io
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Tools, not vibes.
Specification (2025-06-18) Model Context Protocol · modelcontextprotocol.io
The protocol uses JSON-RPC 2.0 messages to establish communication between:
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Tools, not vibes. Also: servers offer “Resources: Context and data…”, “Prompts: Templated messages and workflows for users” and “Tools: Functions for the AI model to execute”.
Tools (specification 2025-06-18) Model Context Protocol · modelcontextprotocol.io
inputSchema: JSON Schema defining expected parameters
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Tools, not vibes.
Transports (specification 2025-06-18) Model Context Protocol · modelcontextprotocol.io
stdio, communication over standard in and standard out
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Tools, not vibes.
MCP Inspector Model Context Protocol · modelcontextprotocol.io
The MCP Inspector is the reference developer tool for testing and debugging MCP servers.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Tools, not vibes.
Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP Anthropic (Claude Code docs) · code.claude.com
claude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Tools, not vibes.
Specification Agent Skills (agentskills.io) · agentskills.io
The name and description fields are loaded at startup for all skills
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Skills.
SynthID Google DeepMind · deepmind.google
SynthID adds an invisible digital watermark to an AI-generated image (or video segment).
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Who made this?.
C2PA Explainer (Content Credentials 2.2) Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity · spec.c2pa.org
The C2PA Manifest is signed with the private key of the software or hardware that performed the operations
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Who made this?.
Content Credentials: Verify Content Authenticity Initiative · contentcredentials.org
Content Credentials provide deeper transparency into how content was created or edited.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Who made this?. Redirects to verify.contentauthenticity.org, a script-rendered app; the quote is its description.
Digital Source Type (NewsCodes) IPTC · cv.iptc.org
Digital media created algorithmically using an Artificial Intelligence model trained on captured content
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Who made this?.
Durable Content Credentials Content Authenticity Initiative · contentauthenticity.org
metadata of any kind can be removed deliberately or accidentally
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Who made this?, The Slop Curriculum: Ship a shot, labelled.
Twelve basic principles of animation Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
The principles are based on the work of Disney animators from the 1930s onwards.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Timing and spacing.
Frame rate Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Since film typically runs at 24 frames per second, this results in a display of only 12 drawings per second.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Timing and spacing.
Autoplay guide for media and Web Audio APIs MDN Web Docs · developer.mozilla.org
playback of any media that includes audio is generally blocked if the playback is programmatically initiated …
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum: Quiet, please.
Open Badges Specification v3.0 1EdTech · imsglobal.org
An iTXt chunk should be inserted into the PNG with keyword openbadgecredential.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The Slop Curriculum. Also §8.2.3: “The signing algorithm MUST be "RS256" as a minimum”.
House rules
Limits (Workers) Cloudflare Developers · developers.cloudflare.com
100,000/day
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: House rules: Stay within the free tier. The Free plan’s requests cell; its CPU time per HTTP request is “10 ms”.
Pricing (Workers) Cloudflare Developers · developers.cloudflare.com
Requests to static assets are free and unlimited.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: House rules: Stay within the free tier.
Pricing (Workers AI) Cloudflare Developers · developers.cloudflare.com
Our free allocation allows anyone to use a total of 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: House rules: Stay within the free tier.
Limits (Workers KV) Cloudflare Developers · developers.cloudflare.com
1,000 writes per day
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: House rules: Stay within the free tier.
Pricing (Durable Objects) Cloudflare Developers · developers.cloudflare.com
100,000 / day
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: House rules: Stay within the free tier. Free-plan requests and rows written; also “5 million / day” rows read, “13,000 GB-s / day” and “5 GB (total)” stored.
CSS
CSS Zen Garden Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
It launched in May 2003.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: CSS: About.
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design csszengarden.com (Dave Shea) · csszengarden.com
The HTML remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external CSS file.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-10-14. Supports: CSS: About.
Rule 110 Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
In 2004, Matthew Cook published a proof that Rule 110 with a particular repeating background pattern is Turing complete
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: CSS: About.
Accidentally Turing-Complete Andreas Zwinkau · beza1e1.tuxen.de
While older HTML/CSS versions are not, with some new additions, you can write a rule 110 automaton.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: CSS: About.
stupid-machines/rule110 (Eli Fox-Epstein) GitHub · github.com
rule110
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: CSS: About. The demo itself (index.html and style.css), with no prose; the quote is its folder name.
:has() MDN Web Docs · developer.mozilla.org
It's been available across browsers since December 2023.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: CSS.
anchor-name MDN Web Docs · developer.mozilla.org
Since January 2026, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions.
Read 2026-10-14; due a re-read by 2027-04-14. Supports: CSS.
GeoCities
GeoCities Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
GeoCities neighborhoods OoCities.org (a GeoCities mirror) · oocities.org
SiliconValley ::: Computers, programming, hardware & technology
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
List of Geocities Neighborhoods and Subneighborhoods OoCities.org
List of Geocities Neighborhoods and Subneighborhoods
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities. The quote is the page title; it lists Heartland and Pentagon, and Vault under Area51.
GeoCities Project Archive Team · wiki.archiveteam.org
these would have names like "Vault" and "Cavern" under the "Area51" neighborhood.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
A Vernacular Web (2005) Olia Lialina · art.teleportacia.org
To be blunt it was bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
Cameron’s World Cameron Askin · cameronsworld.net
Cameron's World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
Cameron’s World (24 August 2015) Vice · vice.com
Cameron’s World is what I call a ‘web-collage.’
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
GifCities: The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine Internet Archive Blogs · blog.archive.org
over 4,500,000 animated GIFs (1,600,000 unique)
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
Spacer GIF Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
David Siegel's 1996 book Creating Killer Web Sites was the first known to publish the Spacer GIF technique.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
Frame (World Wide Web) Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Netscape Navigator 2.0 introduced the elements used for frames in March 1996.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
Webring Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
In 1998, Starseed was acquired by GeoCities
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
Cool Site of the Day Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Cool Site of the Day was an early website created in August 1994 and originally maintained by Glenn Davis.
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: GeoCities.
The 216 Web-Safe Colours (with hex codes!!)
Web colors Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
it was also selected because it allowed exactly six equally spaced shades of red, green, and blue (6 × 6 × 6 = 216).
Read 2026-10-14. Supports: The 216 Web-Safe Colours (with hex codes!!).