weekly reel April 17, 2022
Nerds! Hello, and music, with lovely new Daniel Rossen.
You belong there by Daniel Rossen (bandcamp.com)
News
Life advice from NYC chess hustlers, via Kottke.
The endgames of bad faith communication. HN.
Michael Hobbes - Anatomy of a moral panic: The “free speech crisis”.
Tech
Tom Murphy - Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need. 👏👏👏.
SIGBOVIK 2022 proceedings (PDF).
Inigo Quilez: Painting a landscape with math, via waxy.
Eric Goldman: Content moderation remedies.
White House: Executive order on improving USA cybersecurity. Of particular interest, the requirement of an “SBOM” (Software Bill Of Materials) to list dependencies (node modules, go packages, rust crates, etc) and understand / mitigate risks associated to them. Via Schneier.
Wikipedia: Solar cell research, via Nelson.
Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music 😄, via Trivium.
Shitty tech ℹ️
jwz: Autonomous murderbot pulled over by SFPD; tries to escape 😄.