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

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.

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

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.

Hiha weirdos, and music with Sungazer.

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.

Hi friendz, and music with new Ada Lea.

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.

Hola, and music with new GY!BE.

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).