[SC 2.4.4] The nonstop jackhammering
They're installing new gas lines on our street. Intellectually I know that this is a good thing for services like hot water on demand. Emotionally, I could do without the nonstop jackhammering. Spiritually, I wish to also be a ditch.
‘Feisty’ Otters Are Once Again Hijacking Surfboards in Santa Cruz
Scamps!
When sycophancy and bias meet medicine
"Sycophancy, hallucination, and the black box of AI are non-trivial challenges when conjoined with existing biases in health research."
Designing Software for Things that Rot
"Web services are designed around uptime and consistency, i.e deterministic behaviour, same in test as production. Fermentation is the opposite: controlled drift where things change slowly within acceptable boundaries."
How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next
DOOM IN SPACE
Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall
Money isn't real.
The Pilcrow, part 1 of 3
Here is more than you ever cared to know about the pilcrow symbol.
How Complex Systems Fail
I like system design and work with low-to-medium complexity systems. This was a great read.
Dungeons & Dragons is more than a game, leisure expert says
It's not a phase, mom!
The AI Gold Rush Is Cover for a Class War
"In short, these are political choices masquerading as technical necessities, AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification."
World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
Here are a lot of words about cardboard boxes.
A Meat-Summer Night's Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots
I'm sorry, what.
Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies
Cowards.
300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.
A reminder that the fifth best time to unsubscribe from The New York Times is now.
Is it Time to Regulate React?
"React is a legacy framework turned cargo cult that promotes inaccessible development. There is nothing more guilty!"
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
Cool and great and good.
You were asleep but swear you weren’t: what is paradoxical insomnia?
I already have enough sleep issues. I don't need to know this.
Dark Mode by Local Sunlight
This is one of the coolest ideas around dark mode I've ever seen.