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News

[fr] Osons causer - Critique de la position de JB Fressoz sur la transition énergétique.

[fr] Léonora Miano @ Médiapart - Racisme en France.

How coop “S Group” became Finland’s dominant retailer, via Kottke.

Julia Doubleday: COVID reinfections are not to be taken lightly, as they lead to increasingly-probable Long COVID, via jwz.

Scott Alexander: Singing the blues.

Oh the urbanity: Reasons for the success of Montréal’s St-Denis REV bike lane.

“1000 matchsticks” stop motion animation.

Ed People: “Can you teach me your favorite dance move?”, via waxy.

SMBC: Afterlife, Lightness, Unity, New year, Quote.

Software

American Dialect: 2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification”, via waxy.

How “Standard Ebooks” serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web 👏.

matklad: Of rats and ratchets, Git things.

Anil Dash: “VC qanon” and the radicalization of the tech tycoons.

Asianometry: The rise of Unix and the seeds of its fall, A Chronicle of the Unix wars.

Games

Jonathan Blow and Tiago Loureiro: The future of software development in video games.

Paku Paku, a.k.a. 1D-Pacman.

AI

antirez: LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024.

Simon Sillison: Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023, It’s OK to call it Artificial Intelligence.