Bonjour bonsoir nerds, feliz año nuevo tout ça tout ça, et musique avec Rajna Swaminathan.

News

[fr/qc] L’Histoire nous le dira - Accent québécois : origine et mode d’emploi.

Not just bikes: Montreal’s urban infrastructure is good by North America standards, but a far cry from leading European cities.

Jennifer Jenkins - Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year love triangle.

Vox: The world slaughters 18 billion animals a year, and then wastes 25%.

“China Export” mark.

SMBC: Normal.

Software

NBC: Woman using dating app to find January 6 fascists, get them to talk, and send the info to the FBI, via jwz.

Drew DeVault: Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate.

Games

Thief: The Black Parade is my Game Of The Year 2023.

RPS: China’s upcoming regulation on online games addictive / exploitative monetization.

AI

Simon Willison - Embeddings: What they are and why they matter.

Facebook is being overrun with stolen, AI-generated images that people think are real.

Jussi Pakkanen - AI silliness: getting to a “no”.

NYTimes sues OpenAI and Microsoft over A.I. use of copyrighted work

Prompt-Brush is “a non-AI generative model: if you suggest an image prompt, Pablo Delcan will make you a drawing with black ink and send it to you”. Via Kottke.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Mike Masnick: Substack turns on its “nazis welcome!” sign.

The Hyperloop was always a scam.

jwz: Remember when Mozilla made a web browser? Also, HN blah.

jwz: Migrating away from 1Password.