[SC 2.4.4] Links do a lot of things
Links do a lot of things, and I set about documenting a decent chunk of them.
This work was sitting on a dusty shelf at work, so I'm glad I was able to steal it away, give it a little polish, and share it with folks publicly.
And speaking of links, here's this week's set:
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The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to the Criminalization of Disability
"As a disability rights lawyer who has a disability, I know that this decision will devastate my community."
Nazis Aren’t Protestors. They’re Wankers.
"Language shapes our perception of reality. When we use the term "protestor" to describe neo-Nazis, we're granting them a veneer of legitimacy."
FTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI
Oh ho!
Boeing uses potatoes for in-flight wireless test
Good job, potatoes!
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks
Woah.
Your Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes’s Wondrous Victorian Sound Visualizations
These are beautiful.
Kitchen sponges can be used as memory devices
Good job, sponges!
U+237C ⍼ is (also) S9576 ⍼
Jonathan put in the work here.
The Red Hand Files - Issue #190
"Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial."
Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
"Asking an LLM for an “original thought” is almost oxymoronic, if not just moronic. It was built with the express purpose of not doing that."
Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
Here's a template for the Blockbuster VHS sleeve, should you ever need it.
Disability Data Alarmingly Absent From AI Algorithmic Tools, Report Suggests
Nice to see this bad thing getting more mainstream coverage.
Alive and Well, As a Matter of Fax
Faxing will outlive me, I'm sure of it.
ChatGPT makes a terrible doctor. But it’s very convincing!
I went to go investigate that screaming noise and it turned out it was me.
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
This approach has a certain a-peel.
“The Door Problem”
I mean, what is a website but a very complicated door?
This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?
Oh.
How RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive
"'The recent waves of Venezuelan power outages have had a direct impact on the state of raw materials and other highly botted resources in the game,' he says."