How To Argue With An AI Booster
"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."
Handbook for Exposing an Undercover Cop | No Trace Project
"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"
Hacker Fab Documentation | Hacker Fab
"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"
SCIENCE HOBBYIST: how transistor works, an alternate viewpoint
good explanation! "Transfer resistor. Transistor."
Is the future insurable? · Probable Futures
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
The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language - Aether Mug
"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."
Death at the Zoo by Kate Zambreno
"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."
How to not build the Torment Nexus • Buttondown
"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."
LLMs aren’t world models
"'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."
All pages - GbdevWiki
still a lot of info here that isn't anywhere else
Flexflex
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
Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
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
Getting off US tech: a guide - by Paris Marx - Disconnect
very good list
How to use computing power faster: on the weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI | Gauthier Roussilhe
"[T]he semiconductor industry needs to sell more and more powerful chips to maintain its economies of scale. It is therefore necessary for demand for computing power to increase year on year, at the same rate as gains in computing power." ... goes on to convincingly argue that adoption of AI services lags behind what's nnecessary to "consume" semiconductor production capacity. Model providers are caught in a double bind between reducing per-token marginal costs through increased efficiency and needing to keep semiconductor manufacturers afloat: "What is changing here is the growing interdependence of investment in AI and the insane capitalization of the industry, as exemplified by Nvidia."
Blackface in the machine AKA Who are these Niggas? — J. Clark Comics
"Minstrel shows were popular for two reasons. First it allowed white people to revel in all of the most base and hateful Black stereotypes in public. It validated all of their treatment of real Black people and turned that hate into entertainment. But secondly it allowed for a bit of taboo fantasy.... The audience got to engage with Blackness indirectly and yet still feel like they were experiencing something authentic. Another identity they could pick up and put down at will. What these AI creations make clear is that desire hasn’t gone away in the passing century."
US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology | Truthout
"Campuses have historically been sites of inquiry, dissent, and transformation, not laboratories for digital repression, and we must fight to keep them that way. We must reject the narrative that surveillance is inevitable. It is not. It is a political choice, made behind closed doors, mostly without consent or oversight of those who are affected the most."
AI for Good [Appearance?] | AI Accountability Lab
"The general global trend towards authoritarianism, censorship and silencing of academics, journalists alike that stand up for fundamental rights, the rule of law, and justice is difficult to deal with in the current climate. But for a Summit that supposedly claims that 'AI for Good remains firmly aligned with the collective priorities of the international community' and '[…] it is our responsibility to ensure that no one is left behind', to then censor an invited keynote speaker that advocates for confronting difficult issues and engaging in self-reflection, is doubly disheartening."
millfork | Millfork: a middle-level programming language targeting 6502- and Z80-based microcomputers and home consoles
"a middle-level programming language for 8-bit microprocessors" focused on "performance, compactness, simplicity and readability"
Old Organizers Collection
"This is the biggest collection of monochrome electronic organizers, text and graphic PDA's, older brothers of nowadays multimedia handheld devices in the WORLD." an invaluable resource tbh
Chris Covell's Epoch Game Pocket Computer page
"a handheld game system released by large Japanese toy manufacturer Epoch in 1984/85. For its time, it was quite advanced as far as videogames go, sporting a 75x64 pixel B&W dot-matrix display, interchangeable game cartridges, a circular D-pad, and six action/selection buttons." it's a cutie!