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Stuff I found on the Internet

Kin - Everyday tools. No strings.

"[A] curated collection of simple, free web tools that just work. No subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking. Install them to your phone, use them offline..." these are nice but the lack of explicit licensing and source code gives me pause. also the font choice—unfortunately narrow serifs have been completely colonized by fascists and grifters

web apps

Grave Oak - Wikipedia

"[T]he age of around 2000 years stated in the Guinness Book is contested. According to the latest literature, the oak is estimated to be between 700 and 800 years old. [...] In its root zone, directly below the hollow trunk, there is a brick-built crypt containing the body of the manor owner Hans Wilhelm von Thümmel [de], who died in 1824."

trees horror botany oaks

Malleable Systems Collective

"Modern computing is far too rigid. Applications can only function in preset ways determined by some far away team. Software is trapped in hermetically sealed silos and is rewritten many times over rather than recomposed.... This community catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power"

programming

Let’s talk about LLMs

"[LLM] advocates can’t have it both ways: either LLM coding will be an exclusive club for those who built up the necessary skills, XOR it will be a great democratizer and do away with the need for those skills." cogent, calm, well-sourced

ai programming

Des verbes | Tûtie’s blog

"[L]es IA génératives... détruisent ce lien à l’humain que je perçois dans le code, cette base de raisonnement qui n’existe soudain plus du tout. Je n’ai plus d’autrice pour m’expliquer, je n’ai plus personne à comprendre." The part where she lists friends and acquaintances she learned particular technologies from is very touching

programming ai culture

curb cut cartography

i swear i nearly died a dozen times on that / hellish stretch the challenge was exhilarating until / one day suddenly the whole lot had been repaved

poetry disability geography

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

"When something goes wrong, we’re as likely as anyone to assume the computer is cursed, has it out for us specifically, or needs to be appeased in some way. And at that moment, the computer does have an interiority that is hidden from us. There certainly is something we haven’t seen or don’t understand! A good programming tool or computer language, though, is a means for us to find and dissect that interiority, stripping away the illusion. AI actively worsens it instead."

programming psychology ai

North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit

"This policy toolkit is primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level. Our approach recognizes the extractive relationship between data centers and local communities... This toolkit is intended to help organizers and policymakers identify the strongest possible actions."

politics data cityplanning ai