weekly reel November 17, 2024

Hiha, and music with Django Django.

Off Planet by Django Django (bandcamp.com)

Eco

[fr] Homo fabulus & Le réveilleur : Notre cerveau nous condamne-t-il à détruire la planète ? et partie 2.

Carbon Mapper achieves first Tanager-1 methane mitigation success, via nelson.

Urbanism

Vision Zero, Sweden’s road traffic safety project started in 1997 to “achieve a roadway system with no fatalities or serious injuries involving road traffic”.

Not just bikes: How self-driving cars will destroy cities, and what to do about it. Aside the projections (that are risky and debatable), here are two highlights:

  1. [43:28] The comparison between the post-90s evolution of London, Ontario & Utrecht, Netherlands is striking (and nice job researching historical changes & photos): two cities similar both in size, and in how disfigured they were after the mid-20th century car boom... but how they took opposite paths, with night-and-day results three decades later. A good case to counter the usual “North America is different” narrative: European cities were scarred just as much! Examples like Utrecht prove that healing these wounds is possible and was done.
  2. [34:26] The case of Bamberg, North Carolina, whose city council thought it was helping downtown business by prioritizing cars in its Main Street.

Games

Dead Game News: Ubisoft is getting sued in California over The Crew.

Lulz

How Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty vanish in 1983.

NYT: The Onion wins bankruptcy bid to buy Infowars, Alex Jones’s site, “to turn it into a parody of itself” 😄 👏.

SMBC: Climate, Promise, Questions. PBF: Clicked.

Tech

Stephane Travostino: The firehose.

Andrew Stephens: Save the web by being nice, On micropayments.

ben-mini: IMG_0416, via HN.

’Murica & Orange Man

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X.

Doc Searls: The redstream media.

Matt Pearce: Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy.

McSweeney’s: Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences.

weekly reel November 10, 2024

Bonjour bonsoir, frendz, and music with curl -v https://google.com (via nelson).

c41c - curl -v https://google.com (youtube-nocookie.com)

News

[fr] Science Étonnante - Que se passe-t-il vraiment dans les fils électriques ?

AlphaPhoenix: Why doesn’t resonance always build to infinity?

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch - “Appauvrir les milliardaires” ? L’aveu des macronistes.

ABC Australia: Christmas Island’s red crab migration, via nelson.

Neft Daşları, the mind-bending Soviet-era oil rig city on the Caspian lake.

Surreal glitch pixel pulls.

SMBC: Catch, Eye, Sacrifice.

Tech

Lucas Pope: Stabilizing Return of the Obra Dinn’s 1-bit dithering, via HN.

TIL pages by Julia Evans & Simon Willison.

Primeagen: 2 idiots 1 keyboard.

’Murica & Orange Man

Hunter S. Thompson, 1972 (via DF):

The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states.

Well … maybe so. This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves: finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Nice Hypertext reporting about Orange Man, NYT. Via kottke.

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch - Trump : pourquoi il faut prendre son discours au sérieux.

DF: I wonder.

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.