[SC 2.4.4] Kudos to a fellow Eric
This week is a double-feature, as I missed last week's newsletter on account of going out into the world and being a human being in a location other than my house for the first time in three years.
Kudos to a fellow Eric who took me up on my offer to meet, it was a ton of fun!
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
[ Dead Internet Theory intensifies ]
Here’s how we could begin decoding an alien message using math
Go math!
Use .config to store your project configs
I am a big fan of this idea.
P1030680 - Unbroken Enigma message (U534 - 01. May 1945)
Unbroken Enigma machine message.
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
Anyways, Threads is launching tomorrow.
weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard
"It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif."
The ‘manning up of boys begins in the cradle.’ But what boys really need is emotional support from their dads
"We can turn the tide for boys by developing deeper connections with them and helping them do the same with others."
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
Did anyone at Microsoft ever hear of the Stadia?
Notes on “Access Washing”
"We are seeing access washing more and more lately. We must recognize it for what it is: leveraging “accessibility” as justification to harm communities of color and poor & working class communities."
Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?
lmao
Cyclic Dependency Space Toggles
holy shit
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action at colleges
I hate it here.
South Koreans become younger under new age-counting law
Absolutely incredible.
Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
Monster wave, broheim 🤙
How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows.
Screaming.
We’re Building Things Based on a Climate We No Longer Live In
oh.
Who killed Google Reader?
We're now at the place where people who have never actually used Google Reader have learned about its existence from its death, and are outraged by proxy.
Who wants to be a cough sweet? Not Tecwen
Man registers name to prevent a cough syrup from being named after him following a cough-related game show scandal.
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: The Stuff of Reality TV
Jesus fucking christ.
Junk Anthropology: A Manifesto for Trashing and Untrashing
"If we repurpose sites or moments of breakdown to resist configurations of power, then materials themselves are also always resisting what they ought to do or become."