Yo, geeks, and music with Hubert Lenoir.

News

[fr] Monsieur Phi - Histoire coloniale Corée / Japon.

[fr/qc] IRIS / Pierre-Antoine Harvey : Le rôle potentiel des profits dans l’inflation élevée (“greedflation”) se confirme.

SMBC: How mathematicians want to die, Nouning, The human paradox.

Tech

Linus Akesson: C64 theremin.

Andy Baio: Opening the pandora’s box of AI art, and Exploring 12 million of the 2.3 billion images used to train Stable Diffusion’s image generator.

Large text compression benchmark, a competition that “ranks lossless data compression programs by the compressed size of the first 10⁹ bytes of the XML text dump of Wikipedia”

Aral Balkan: Dear Linux, privileged ports must die.

Skybox Satellite, “skybox images collated from GoldSrc (Half-Life) engine games & maps”

Shitty tech ℹ️

DF / TechCrunch: FTC sues data broker Kochava for sale of people’s location data.

DF / NYT: Facebook’s problems.