I add links to things I like to this list from time to time.
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Numbness/Time
From the album Jim McGee Pt. 1, by o.n.c.
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The AI revolution is rotten to the core
AI actually has a ton of genuine uses. [...] It could automate a lot of busywork. But right now, the trajectory we're on is using it to dehumanize everyone even further. The irony that we're automating the production of art, instead of the jobs everybody hates, shouldn't be lost on us.
- Youtube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣
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JavaScript is for girls
The women who are so assiduously learning to code seem to be devaluing certain tech roles simply by occupying them.
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One thought at a time
“Every time we cycle, do you wish we were in a car instead?”, I ask Charlie. Because I don’t. I try not to, that is. It’s a conscious endeavour to change my dreams.
To be in a car means to drill into the earth [...]. To cycle, on the other hand, means to operate an elegant machine while at the same time becoming stronger and healthier [...]. Cycling is antifragile while [fossil fuel] car driving is not only fragile but also unsustainable [...].
- WhatsApp and the domestication of users
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Particle Life
Cel·lular automata app (here's a video explanation of Particle Life if you don't know what that is).