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  • Instead of ‘Aut Zuck Aut Nihil’

    … his t-shirt should’ve accurately said ‘Zuck miserabilis est adulator’ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/27/politics/big-tech-ceos-donald-trump-election/index.html What ever, tough guy…

  • All you fascists bound to lose…

    A great cover of the Wood Guthrie song

  • Flat-rate train ticket reduced Germany’s transport emissions by 5% in first year – analysis

    Germany’s flat-rate ticket for local and regional public transport, the Deutschlandticket, helped push people to switch from using cars to taking the train, which reduced car emissions by 6.7 million tonnes of CO2 between its introduction in May 2023 and April 2024, showed an analysis by the Ariadne energy transition research alliance. This represents almost five percent…

  • Malleability our computers no longer have

    I get that this guy is coming to this video with a vast amount of knowledge. But step back and watch HOW he’s using the hardware and the software to express his ideas… we no longer have that power. src: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/linus-live-codes-music-on-the-commodore-64/

  • Creativity always finds a way: Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business

    We can always bank on creativity to get us out of the shit… here are some exciting calls about the future of music. Life/Creativity always finds a way, https://www.honest-broker.com/p/nine-predictions-for-the-future-of

  • ‘Woo’-lang

    I’m a software engineer. I’m used to languages being used for a purpose – some languages are better at certain things. I also spend a lot of time as an advisor to other business people. Yesterday I had a call with a friend and I was struck by how we used ‘woo’ terms to navigate…

  • Nature Study Reveals the Deadly Danger of Anti-Trans Laws

    Whenever I am asked about my position on trans issues I reply: My start position is that accepting trans people means less people kill themselves. Turns out that the data supports this.

  • This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

    At the same time, he is convinced that today’s AIs aren’t, in any meaningful sense, intelligent—and that many others in the field, especially at AI startups, are ready to extrapolate its recent development in ways that he finds ridiculous. If LeCun’s views are right, it spells trouble for some of today’s hottest startups, not to…

  • The Rick Rubin Interview

    Take 2 hours out of your life and treat yourself… it’s a magic conversation. Towards the end Beato quizzes Rubin about the difficulties of making music when “everything has already been done”. The vibe you get from Rubin is that “everything is still to be done”.

  • An insightful example of how our use of language traps us…

    Charlie Stross tackles the idea of how our mental models limit our thinking. Anyway, a point I’ve already chewed over on this blog is that a spaceship is not like a sea-going vessel, can’t be operated like a sea-going vessel, and the word “ship” in its name feeds into various cognitive biases that may be actively…