weekly reel September 15, 2024

Woop woop, have some fresh King Gizzard and shonkywonkydonkey / Radiohead.

Flight b741, by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (bandcamp.com)

shonkywonkydonkey - OK Computer but everything is my voice (youtube-nocookie.com)

News

Irving Penn: Small trades.

Penny Farthing bike race (1928).

SMBC: Grounded, Sciences.

Tech

Jussi Pakkanen: On “M type” and “S type” processes in software development.

AI

The political preferences of LLMs.

Shitty tech

Neither Elon Musk nor anybody else will ever colonize Mars, via jwz.

jwz: Wherein the techbros are here to “disrupt” ordering drinks at a bar.

How to monetize a blog.

weekly reel September 7, 2024

Bonjour bonsoir geeks, and music with new Why?

The Well I Fell Into, by WHY? (bandcamp.com)

News

Ken Shirriff: The Pentium as a Navajo weaving. HN.

The banned Somersault long jump.

SMBC: Who’s a good boy?!

Tech

“Right to Repair for your body”: The rise of DIY, pirated medicine.

Casey Muratori: Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores, Part I: The silicon.

Fritzchens Fritz’ hi-res CPU & GPU die shots, via Casey above.

AI

Ted Chiang: Why AI isn’t going to make art.

Games

The Machinations of myhouse.wad: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

weekly reel September 1, 2024

Hi friend, just shut up already and listen to new GY!BE:

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

News

[fr] Arte - Dégats du sucre sur l’organisme.

Astral Codex Ten: In defense of “I’m sorry you feel that way”, and comments.

11 foot 8, the “can opener” bridge.

SMBC: Point, Nitrogen.

AI

Google’s new “Reimagine” feature on new Pixel 9 phones makes it trivial to create deepfakes, quite the ease-of-use jump indeed. Via DF.

weekly reel August 25, 2024

Hola, and music with Feist and Caput Medusae.

Feist - Tiny Desk concert (youtube-nocookie.com)

You can’t negotiate with zombies, by Caput Medusae (bandcamp.com)

News

Oh the urbanity: I went to an anti-bike-lane meeting, here’s what I learned.

SMBC: Tao of Waldo, Paradox, App, Life, Nostradamus.

weekly reel August 18, 2024

Hi frendz, and music with Spoon.

Spoon - Don’t make me a target (youtube-nocookie.com)

News

AlphaPhoenix: Dragonflies hunt by predicting the future.

Not just bikes: North-American fire depts. are getting people killed.

SMBC: Sharing, xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis.

Software

Alex Russell: Reckoning.

Carson Gross (CEO of HTMX) @ Big Sky Dev Con 2024: A theory of open-source marketing.

Andrew Moore @ Tech Over Tea #231: Firefox & Privacy Preserving Ads.

Ryan Sipes @ GUADEC 2024: Thunderbird’s death and rebirth.

The EU AI Act is here.

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems like Starlink cause environmental harm regulators didn’t prepare for.

AI

Simon Willison @ PyCon 2024: Imitation Intelligence and text.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Jim Stephanie Sterling - No more room in hell: How tech & games are rotting.

Leonard French: Inside Elon Musk’s trashy advertising lawsuit (X Corp v. GARM et al)