ZADZMO code
"This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside."
raylib | A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
had completely sailed under my radar, but looks really nice for dev and prototyping? python bindings too
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
"The collective perspectives that emerge from social media - our understanding of what the public is and wants - are similarly shaped by algorithms that select on some aspects of the public, while sidelining others. And we tend to orient ourselves towards that understanding, through a mixture of reflective beliefs, conformity with shibboleths, and revised understandings of coalitional politics." essentially: metrics normalize
A Revolution for the Perplexed: A Review of "Blockchain Radicals"
"using Deleuze to explain this idea is like referencing Einstein's general relativity to explain why you slipped and fell: It's not necessarily wrong, but it's overpowered and not particularly salient"
Utopian Visions Through Art and Design – Syllabus
"...the idea of a utopia, a perfect place, seems naive and hopelessly unattainable—unless we revise our understanding to imagine utopia not as an unreachable destination, but as a flexible foundation for thinking critically about the present."
Public Domain Image Archive
a "hand-picked collection of 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse" from the makers of the Public Domain Review
Worldwide Story Structures - 김윤미 Kim Yoonmi Author
useful collection of descriptions and resources, good bibliography (cites 'The Myth of Universal Narrative Models' which I assign in CAtN)
Bare Metal Vi, boot into Vi without an OS! - Raymii.org
dream OS tbh
Change in classification of CC0 - legal - Fedora mailing-lists
fedora stops accepting code licensed as CC0. the concern seems to be about the patent rights clauses, which may expose users of the code to patent litigation later on
Buy Thomas Feichtmeir (cyangmou) a Coffee. ko-fi.com/cyangmou
lots of good little pixel art tutorials
No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab
"[T]he intersecting identities of those targeted by gender-based digital transnational repression – namely, their gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status, and socio-economic class in the host country, among others – lead to compounded vulnerability. Exiled and diaspora women human rights defenders often lack robust social networks and support structures in their host societies, leaving them further isolated and exposed to state repression"
Section 3 - Generating Maps - Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust
good overview of some dungeon generation techniques
X Cicéro
"Une série d’impressions des caractères disponibles a ensuite servi de point de départ au dessin de caractères numériques, qui a leur tour ont servi de modèles pour des essais de découpe numérique. Les objectifs, à long terme, sont de pouvoir réhabiliter ces caractères et d’en produire de nouveaux, et de faire vivre l’atelier d’impression typographique." downloadable "tels quels" and licensed with OFL
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
"It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process"
All Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Bluesky - Filmmaker Magazine
"In a recent press release, the company insisted that 'we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)' For what it’s worth, that press release also announced they’d raised $15 million in Series A funding from Blockchain Capital." lmao
Wild West Fonts
ttf fonts with wood type distressing and sort of an "overexposed microfiche" look?
Page by Dr. Casey Fiesler | @cfiesler.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
good thread on the use of "public" social media posts in ML datasets
Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI
"Defining AI along political and ideological language allows us to think about things we experience and recognize productively as AI, without needing the self-serving supervision of computer scientists to allow or direct our collective work. We can recognize, based on our own knowledge and experience as people who deal with these systems, what’s part of this overarching project of disempowerment by the way that it renders autonomy farther away from us, by the way that it alienates our authority on the subjects of our own expertise." (I would add, though I'm sure Alkhatib would agree with this, that attributing authority to something that "learns from examples" is itself a political and ideological act!)
Nature's Folly: A Response to "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably"
"Consider doing this same experiment, but, instead of poetry, it's literally anything STEM, and, when our criminally underpaid participants preferred ChatGPT, we gleefully write a paper titled 'AI-generated physics is indistinguishable from human-written physics.' It's unimaginable that such a paper would pass peer-review in any scientific journal."
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas
"The individual human psyche does not seem like a thing held in common. But, in fact, that presumption may itself be a symptom of the enclosure of the psyche, although there are certainly many other forces leading toward that same conclusion.... From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging."