My loneliness is killing me
good list of resources at the end
The Dead Economy Theory - by Owen McGrann - The Palimpsest
"The rationalist community rediscovers Bayesian epistemology and treats it like a revelation, apparently unaware that the philosophy of science has been working through these questions since the 1920s. Blog posts get treated as foundational texts. People who have never read Kuhn or Lakatos or Feyerabend construct an epistemology from first principles, marvel at what they’ve built, and proceed to use it as the intellectual building blocks for decisions that affect billions of people. The confidence is inversely proportional to the depth. Dunning-Kruger at scale."
Acts of Natural Magik
book of photography from pokemon snap. except none of the pictures have pokemon
Usagi Engine - Rapid 2D Game Prototyping
sort of a grown-up pico8? looks cool but i wish they had an explicit policy re: AI code
Software Freedom as Civic Care — Institute for Ethics in AI
a lot of this resonates with me, but the nick bostrom ref takes me out of it, and honestly i have a hard time buying the idea that the best way to keep software open is a bunch of local openclaw installs
FOSS Contra Big Tech
"Perhaps, back then, the problem was that FOSS communities lacked the political consciousness necessary to recognise their strategic position and to connect it to a broader context and a theory of economic warfare. Nowadays, we deal with the reverse problem — growing political awareness with little strategic application."
The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything
"You’re just going to have to trust me because my editor told me I shouldn’t include links to hardcore porn in a magazine article, sorry."
Luddite Lab
"resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work"
The Virtual OS Museum
"If a working version of an operating system exists somewhere, the goal is to have it here, in a form anyone can run on a reasonably modern laptop/desktop."
Before You Make a Thing | ts200v2
this is such a good list
AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
"Unlike those of us that got an early glimpse of the potential of the internet before corporatism chewed it up and spit it back at us in subscription form, all many young Americans have seen is profoundly terrible assholes doing increasingly vile things in a country too broken, stupid, corrupt, and racist to function or resist"
SIGPLAN-M
"(SIGPLAN-M) organizes an international long-term mentoring program for programming languages researchers."
How to smoke • Buttondown
"[S]uddenly an entire industry is telling you that you’re not capable of moving through your day without their help. An entire industry gaslighting you, until it becomes easier to just gaslight yourself into believing that you were never truly capable of things you are very much capable of."
Activist or Academic or Both? The Quandary of Scholactivism for the Minoritised in the Ivory Tower | Foluke's African Skies
"Are scholars truly defined by the fact that we cannot seek specific outcomes? I cannot agree with this. If I was a scholar of the environment, I would be seeking to end environmental catastrophe. If I was a scholar of medicine, I would be seeking to change health care outcomes. If I was an engineer, I would be seeking improved engineering methods."
AI as a Fascist Artifact
"The singularity is MAGA for nerds. A fascist narrative used to undermine everyone’s right and ability to envision futures." (among various other quotables)
Neo6502 - Open Source Hardware Board
6502-based sbc with a "rp2040 soc" (i.e., the rp2040 implements all of the peripherals)
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript | Trekhleb
love some good old fashioned image processing, no deep learning needed
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
kitspace/awesome-electronics: A curated list of awesome resources for Electronic Engineers and hobbyists
ok this is actually super handy
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."