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		<title>Nicky's New Shtuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>AI Safety for Fleshy Humans: a whirlwind tour</title>
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			<description>a friendly tour of the core ideas of AI Safety, with robot catboy comics</description>
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				<p>Manually updating RSS is annoying and hard, so here's just the link:</p>
				<p>👉 <a href="https://aisafety.dance/">https://aisafety.dance/</a> 👈</p>
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			<title>New project! Nutshell: make expandable explanations</title>
			<link>https://ncase.me/covid-19/</link>
			<description>a tool to make expandable explanations</description>
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				<p><img alt="" src="https://ncase.me/nutshell/promo/trailer/trailer.gif" style="width: 500px; height: 312px;" /></p>

				<p>After 2 years of procrastinating on this project... it's finally out! My first post-burnout-hiatus interactive thingy:</p>

				<p>🥜 <strong>Nutshell: make *expandable* explanations</strong>  🥜<br />
				👉 <a href="https://ncase.me/nutshell/">https://ncase.me/nutshell/</a> 👈</p>

				<p>This is a tool for writers, to let their readers dive into details. Not shown in the above .gif, are two other "killer features": 1) you can embed snippets of text <em>from other authors & websites</em>, even stuff written years ago! And 2) you can embed interactives, YouTube videos, and the intros of Wikipedia articles.</p>

				<p>If you're writing a blog, news articles, code documentation, educational material, etc... I hope Nutshell helps you help <em>your</em> readers.</p>

				<p>(See you next month... for explainers written <em>with</em> Nutshell!)</p>

				<p>Cheers,<br />
				~ Nicky Case</p>

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			<title>I gave a mini-talk at Stanford! "How to Explain Things Real Good"</title>
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			<description>an 18-minute talk about my science/math-communication process</description>
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				<p>Hi all!&nbsp; I wasn't joking when I said this is a&nbsp;<em>low</em>-volume newsletter.</p>

				<p>It's been 26&nbsp;months since my last letter, and that's because I was on burnout-hiatus. I'm back now! And I've got for you, an 18-minute-long mini-talk I gave at Stanford, on how to explain complex ideas well:</p>

				<p><strong>👌 <a href="https://youtu.be/b-M2U3Jl1Cg">HOW TO EXPLAIN THINGS REAL GOOD</a>&nbsp;👌 (18 min video)</strong></p>

				<p>One-slide summary:</p>

				<p><img alt="" src="https://ncase.me/misc-dump/2022-07/summary.png" style="width: 500px; height: 281px;"></p>

				<p>I hope this talk is useful for you...&nbsp;or at least entertaining!</p>

				<p>H.A.G.S,<br>
				~ Nicky Case</p>

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			<title>“What Happens Next?” Possible Covid Futures Explained</title>
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			<description>A new explorable explanation, in collaboration with an epidemiologist</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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				<p><img alt="" src="https://ncase.me/archive/files/covid-19.gif" style="width: 600px; height: 300px;"></p>

				<p><strong>Here you go, the most "deep dive" explorable I've ever made</strong>
				 – epidemiology 101, the proposed COVID-19 interventions, and some
				best/worst-case-scenarios... explained with playable pictures:</p>

				<p><strong>😷 “What Happens Next?” (30 min read/play) 😷</strong><br>
				<strong>👉 <a href="https://ncase.me/covid-19/">https://ncase.me/covid-19/</a> 👈</strong></p>

				<p>This was made in collaboration with epidemiologist Marcel Salathé!&nbsp; And if you'd like, <a href="https://twitter.com/ncasenmare/status/1256299135868813312">here's a tweet with&nbsp;video trailer</a>, for your re-tweeting pleasure.</p>

				<p>I hope this interactive guide gives you hope – not the "downplay
				danger" kind, but the "here's a sword and shield" kind. &nbsp;We can
				still beat COVID-19, in a way <em>that also protects our mental &amp; financial health.</em></p>

				<p>Stay safe, and fight on, y'all.</p>

				<p>✊,<br>
				~ Nicky Case</p>

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			<title>Adventures With Anxiety! 😱🐺</title>
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			<description>A new interactive story about anxiety, where you *are* the anxiety.</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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				<p><img alt="" src="https://ncase.me/archive/files/sep2019.gif" style="width: 600px; height: 315px;"></p>

				<p>Finally!</p>

				<p>🐺 <a href="https://ncase.me/anxiety/">https://ncase.me/anxiety/</a> &nbsp;🐺<br>
				😱 free, web, 30 min playtime &nbsp;😱</p>

				<p>And if you (or someone you know) is struggling, and looking to tame
				that wolf – I've also written a "companion piece" for this game, with <a href="https://ncase.me/mental-health/">Mental Health Tips &amp; Resources + a personal story of my own mental health journey</a>!</p>

				<p>I sincerely hope this story-game is helpful to you and/or folks close
				 to you. To whoever you are: you're not alone in this, stay determined,
				good luck. 💖</p>

				<p>AAAHHHH,<br>
				~ Nicky Case</p>

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			<title>Adventures With Anxiety (Demo)</title>
			<link>https://ncase.me/anxiety-demo/</link>
			<description>Demo for a new interactive story!</description>
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				<p><img alt="" src="https://ncase.me/archive/files/may2019.gif" style="width: 400px; height: 210px;"></p>

				<p>After a year of being dead, the Nicky Newsletter is back! With a
				brand-new demo of an interactive story, about a human with anxiety
				disorder.</p>

				<p>You play <em>as</em>&nbsp;the anxiety disorder.</p>

				<p>😱 <strong><a href="https://ncase.me/anxiety-demo/">ADVENTURES WITH ANXIETY</a></strong> 😱<br>
				🐺 (Demo. Playtime: 7 min) 🐺</p>

				<p>Also, since it's been 13 months since I killed this newsletter (due
				to cost issues), I understand if you don't want more updates! If you
				don't, no need to do anything! <strong>If you <i>do </i>want to stay updated, please re-consent here:</strong>&nbsp;[re-consent link]</p>

				<p>Either way, thank you for supporting me thus far!</p>

				<p><strong>&lt;3,</strong>
				<br>
				~ Nicky Case
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