[SC 2.4.4] A new weird little guy
This week has professional quitter-for-youers, a new weird little guy, a Simpsons reference, and ancient viruses. It also has some badsad things, but one of those badsad things offers a powerful reframing.
Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
I am so pleased to share with you that a new weird little guy has been debuted, and it's also fungus!
Accessibility Is Expensive
"Paying out of pocket for accessible furniture that costs thousands of dollars isn’t an option for me."
Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?
Oh.
Dishwashers are the unsung heroes of the restaurant world. One shift is all it takes to know why.
All labor is skilled labor.
Radicalized by a soap dispenser
"Anyway, this is pretty much where my brain goes on a daily basis."
Hundreds of Ancient Viruses Discovered Deep Inside Tibetan Glacier
uh oh
Can you convert a video to pure css?
Not content with just raytracing, CSS now does video.
Sunlight Orbital
Reverse Mister Burns.
Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
This is wild. Some crows can form mental templates.
We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us.
"Biological anthropologists have argued that depression is an adaptive response to adversity and not a mental disorder."
In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
So, the thing that everybody assumes is true, that tech reporters told us couldn't be true, is, in fact, true? Got it.
The Gendered History of Human Computers
"It is becoming a pink-collar ghetto in coding, Posner notes, rather like the status of female human computers."
The Eternal Truth of Markdown
I wrote this comment in Markdown!
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
AI link 1
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits
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AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
AI link 3
Trust
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a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
How had I never heard of this until now?
Too Timid to Tell the Boss You’re Quitting? There’s a Service for That.
"Her routine is fairly straightforward. Sekine phones employers, informs them she is with the “I can’t do it anymore” service, and declares that her client will be leaving. She specifies the departure date and potential use of remaining paid holidays for notice periods."
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Biopunk is so much cooler than cyberpunk.