weekly reel November 3, 2024

O hai, nerds. Enjoy The Armed and O'o.

Everlasting Gaze, by The Armed (bandcamp.com)

Songs of Wishes and Bones, by O'o (bandcamp.com)

News

Oh The Urbanity: Doug Ford’s attacking bike lanes is culture wars bullshit, and is at odds with Toronto’s mobility needs.

Asianometry: Soviet Russia’s merciless war for grain in 1900-1925.

[fr] Radio Canada : Les pourboires, vestiges raciste de l’esclavagisme ?

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch - Éric Ciotti touche le fond.

The Nirvana concert “sabotaged” by Kurt Cobain to spite an angry crowd.

SMBC: Instance.

Tech

Wes Bos: How is this website so fast!?

Lawful Masses: Ice cream machine software gets a US DMCA right-to-repair exemption!

Russian court hits Google with a fine larger than the world’s GDP, exponentials are funny, eh.

AI

BBC: Hundreds gather at AI hoax Dublin Halloween parade.

jwz: AI slop music.

weekly reel October 27, 2024

Hola, and music with old-made-new Squarepusher and awesome new Linus Åkesson.

Ultravisitor (20th anniversary ddition), by Squarepusher (bandcamp.com)

Linus Åkesson: Wintergatan's Sommarfågel on homemade 8-bit and 16-bit instruments (youtube-nocookie.com)

News

Aperture: From stoicism to broicism.

The Onion: Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything.

Tech

Exploring x86 vs. ARM code with Casey Muratori.

AI

The 3 AI use cases: Gods, Interns, Cogs 👏👏👏, via swillison.

Simon Willison: Apple’s Knowledge Navigator concept video (1987)

Asianometry: The coming AI startup bust.

jwz: A murderbot stamping on a human face forever.

Programmers are also human: AI coding in 2024 be like.

Shitty tech

DF - Profiles in cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and publisher William Lewis of the Washington Post.

Intuit’s PR team has seemingly never heard of the Streisand effect.

weekly reel October 20, 2024

Hiha weirdos, and music with Sungazer.

Against the Fall of Night, by Sungazer (bandcamp.com)

News

Flat-rate train ticket reduced Germany’s transport emissions by 5% in first year.

Aubrey Hirsch: Abortion bans have made miscarriages treatment less safe, via Kottke. Also, Leonard French: Judge blasts DeSantis abortion ad censorship: “It's the First Amendment, stupid”.

Cabel Sasser @ XOXO 2024, ❤️. After watching, go explore The Wes Cook Archive.

[fr] Philoxime : Le cordon sanitaire belge, LA solution contre l’extrême-droite ?

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch : Incurie argumentative post-vérité du macronisme fétide, Comment Cnews manipule l’opinion.

SMBC: Jung Science, Flemish, They.

AI

[fr] Monsieur Phi - La sagesse selon YouTube : plongée dans un océan de contenu généré par IA, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Grand Theft Autocomplete.

weekly reel October 13, 2024

Hi friendz, and music with new Ada Lea.

notes, by Ada Lea (bandcamp.com)

News

Ken Shirriff: Wealth distribution in the USA 2013 & 2024, via jwz.

[fr] Osons causer + Le réveilleur : 6 fois où Jancovici se trompe au sujet des énergies renouvellables.

Tons of neat photo links via Kottke this week: Photo Remakes of Famous Art, 2024 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, 2024 International Pano Awards, The distorted paper collages of Lola Dupré.

SMBC: Consequences, Trick or treat, Stare.

Tech

Cory Doctorow @ DEFCON 2024 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation, 👏👏👏👏👏.

Chinese government hackers compromise “back door for the good guys” in USA communication networks.

Shitty tech

WikiProject AI Cleanup, a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.

weekly reel October 6, 2024

Hola, and music with new GY!BE.

"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD", by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (bandcamp.com)

News

What’s the labor share of national income?

Wikipedia: Timeline of the far future, via Kottke.

Real Engineering: The problems with China’s space program.

[fr] Médiapart : Peut-on échapper à l’austérité budgétaire ?

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch - Libéralisme : l’idéologie maquillée en bon sens, Entretien avec Sylvie Hazebroucq.

Not Just Bikes: The Amtrak train from NYC to Toronto, and how VIA Rail managed to suck even more.

How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose: a songwriter’s practical lesson in written advocacy.

SMBC: Consciousness, Half, Cell.

Tech

Game Engineering Podcast: Casey Muratori on his work experience.

Primeagen: LiChess case study.

Primeagen interviews DHH, what an excellent chat, regardless of my non-enjoyment of Rails (too much “magic”, horror stories of ex-Shopify friends).

Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene. HN.

Bop spotter.

AI

Batshit crazy AI video hallucination, via Kottke.

Shitty tech

jwz: Legendarily predatory monopolist and AI shill Microsoft wants US taxpayers to pay for their very own nuclear reactor.

jwz: Mozilla’s CEO doubles down on them being an ad company now.

The humble hyperlink, the backbone of the entire internet, is increasingly endangered, via Kottke.

Wladimir Palant: Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri).