long post is long
Current list of interesting short Wikipedia articles:
Parthenocarpy
Haldane's rule
Transposable element
Stenospermocarpy
Haplodiploidy
Pseudo-arrhenotoky
Thelytoky
Epitoky
Arrhenotoky
F1 hybrid
Duggan–Schwartz theorem
Polari
Rotwelsch
Gangway (nautical)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
Continuous performance task
Porteus Maze test
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The Shallows (book)
Huang's Law
Chinese Buddhist Canon
Tibetan Buddhist Canon
Misology
Flatmate and I have a dynamic where we send each other obscure wikipedia articles
He sent me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_No._5#Bob_the_Builder_version, to which I replied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsey_Horseless
Found another good site: https://linas.org/
Also nicely excludes some things that are Not My Job™, such as choosing which person to align the AI to or what to do about people who instruct AIs to do Bad Things™
Then I can say "that's *not my job*, sorry. talk to the policy people"
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].