Hi nerdz, and music with new Ada Rook and Aleks with a K’s excellent OST for Dwell.

News

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch : Macron, une légitimité en question.

[fr] Homo Fabulus : Racisme et { biologie, sociologie, sciences cognitives }.

Mattias Adolfsson’s whimsical illustrations, via Kottke.

SMBC: Sunset, Inversion of kidhood, Flatten.

Tech

Dwell is !@#$% bonkers.

Legendary Quake e4m2 speedrun record finally beaten after 22 years 🤯.

Planet: One more way AI can help us harness one of the most underutilized datasets in the world.

Yahtzee Croshaw / Extra Punctuation: Three Things, Somewhere, Quarter 4 2027

Joblow: Software complexity, Docker containers, ridiculous layers upon layers to get anything done.

Bonjour bonsoir geeks, sur un chouette nouveau-ish Blais.

News

John Green: The seduction of despair, and Nature: Negativity drives online news consumption (HN).

The difficulty of living in exponential time.

The so-called “Culture Wars”.

Games

The beauty of Quake. Quake these days is a glorious perpetual stew. Soooooo much delicious new soup made in this old pot, excellent maps, mods, and kickass sourceports.

People Make Games: We entered the world of Microsoft Excel eSports & got our asses beat. Kind of a weird mix between a security CTF and usual eSports.

Jim Stephanie Sterling: Accessibility and “Gamer Pride”.

Shitty tech ℹ️

FTC finalizes order requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay 245 million $ for tricking users into making unwanted charges. Fuck yeah, fuck Epic predatoryware.

Yowdy frendz, and music with Dreamcrusher.

News

Not Just Bikes: Stupid SUVs are literally killing us. Excellent rant backed by hard facts. Seeing such a usually mild-mannered commentator explode with rage gives a measure of how infuriating this situation is.

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch : Est-il légitime de bloquer tout le pays ?

[fr] Stupid Economics : Ce que cache la réforme des retraites.

[fr] Débat Jancovici / Marignac : Demain, quelles énergies ?

[fr] Science4All : Qui paiera pour la sécurité ?

Winners of 2022’s World Nature Photography Awards, via Kottke.

SMBC: Time travel III, xkcd #2747: Presents for biologists.

Tech

Allan Blomquist: Tomorrow Corp. tech demo (caveats, HN). Neat demo of the tooling for a commercial indie game. Integrated editor, hot-reloading code & assets, debugging, reverse-debugging with snapshots 😍.

Yahtzee / Extra Punctuation: The “live-service” game model is dying.

The Onion: SpaceX Crew Member Realizes He Fired After Being Locked Out Of Capsule 😄.

Shitty tech ℹ️

In “I have nothing to hide” news,

• Business Insider: U.S. police are prosecuting women seeking abortion using their digital data, and Facebook & Google help them do it.
• WaPo: Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests.

r/Android: Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake (HN), thx Heinz. Oh how surprising from that same company that is repeatedly caught pretending high-end-DLSR photos were taken by their phones, only to be caught by EXIF metadata 🤦‍♂️. EDIT March 15: they blog about it and seem to be happy about it.

Hey nerdz. It’s Godspeed week in Montréal! So here’s your usual reminder to hear & buy all of Godspeed again:

News

Shaun: JK Rowling's charming friends.

SMBC: Algo firing, Rich.

Tech

Noah Smith: The cause for teenage unhappiness is probably their phones. HN.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Jim Stephanie Sterling: How AI takes the art out of the artist.

Woop dee woop, and music with new Hania Rani.

News

[fr] Jancovici - Entrevue au colloque climat Coface du 16 fév. 2023.

Cabel Sasser: The courtyard.

SMBC: Transcendence 3.

Tech

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear. HN.

Shitty tech ℹ️

katherine morayati: I saw RealPage’s crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don’t have to; or: the banality of algorithms and landlords. HN.