Stuff I found on the Internet
"un projet d’œuvres multiples tissées à partir de fils électriques, ces câbles sont capables de transmettre des signaux audio, si bien que ces tissages sont aussi des pièces sonores" (a project with multiple pieces woven from electric wire, which can transmit audio signals well enough that the woven works are also works of sound art)
well reasoned post showing how LLM use in software development can have a negative ROI, independently of inference cost. the alice/bob scenarios are also helpful to review—in my experience with new programmers, the "sad" path is very common
"a search engine that finds text in New York City's Google Street View images. Search for any word or phrase to see where it appears across the city—in shop signs, graffiti, advertisements, and protest signs"
"A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals"
"Gewürz is sui generis: excessive, intoxicating (yes all wine is technically intoxicating but you know what I mean) marginal, joyous. It represents a whole range of possibilities, but almost all of them lie beyond the bounds of what other grapes can even dream of. Gewürztraminer is trans."
"Research on other types of school-based online surveillance... suggests that school surveillance is ineffective in preventing violence and has negative effects on youth mental health.... The dearth of empirical research on online surveillance services is especially concerning given the serious topics facing students that online surveillance companies claim to prevent (eg, suicidality, self-harm, cyberbullying, and gun violence). Without transparency and accountability, this industry is susceptible to unproductive competition and even deceptive practices. [...] Further, any gains in school safety from this technology should be assessed in balance to the potential loss in privacy and cybersecurity risks."
good list of data misuse patterns and recommendations for mitigating them! "[A]s science becomes more open and transparent, and non-experts increasingly engage in interpreting scientific data, most of the existing curatorial guidelines for data sharing and reuse remain tailored for expert data practices. [...] [T]here is little understanding of how to release and contextualize science data for public consumption"
"But I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity."
"I am not going to go line-by-line to cut [AI 2027] apart anymore than I am going to write a lengthy takedown of someone’s erotic Banjo Kazooie story, because both are fictional."
"one of the things that should distinguish us from the police and the State is that we have a sense of responsibility towards our comrades, even if we have political differences with them"
"Our Goals: (1) Make integrated circuit prototyping as fast as 3D printing (2) Make DIY version of every nanofabrication tool (3) Get there with collaborative open source hardware"
good explanation! "Transfer resistor. Transistor."
my "We are not yet in imminent danger of widespread and systemic insurance market collapse" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
"It's like reading in stereo, where sometimes the same message is conveyed to you in two different formats on separate channels, and sometimes two messages blend together as something new."
"I wonder if the zoo is a place where young children can feel these intense feelings of sadness and mortality, including the deep formal mourning for zoo animals that are extinct, or have died in the conditions of their captivity."
"Turns out human beings really like building the Torment Nexus. But it also turns out that human beings are good at defeating the Torment Nexus."
"'Thinking' by guessing what words to say next based on words we’ve previously heard might actually help find a good idea — and it’s also how know-nothings get through work meetings, and how people come to think they know stuff they really don’t, and how they internalize the stupidest notions."
still a lot of info here that isn't anywhere else
a "typeface that responts to spatial requirements rather than imposing them" implemented as a JavaScript library; follows additional constraints like not using any non-diagonal straight lines
I didn't want to bookmark this, but then I found myself swimming through my history to find it, because I wanted to make fun of it, so here we are