weekly reel January 7, 2024
👋 friends, have some Daniel Lanois.
Daniel Lanois - Marie Claire (youtube-nocookie.com)
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.
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.