Julio y Agosto
Parte del log de 2023Books & comics
Videos, Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Dropping the bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- How Police Make Up The Law
- How Ron DeSantis Let Billionaires Destroy Florida
- The 3 Types of Detective Game
- The Celebration (Festen)
- and of course, Barbie and Oppenheimer!
Podcasts
- Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
- Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work
- Adam Conover On the Hollywood Strike
- ‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding?
Computer science & Mathematics
- C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
- Regex engine internals as a library
- Evidential Decision Theory via Partial Markov Categories, see also the paper
Surveillance, privacy, cyberpunk-adjacent
- Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law
- Palantir filed to go public. The firm’s unethical technology should horrify us
- After Vice’s Downfall, Top Journalists Start Their Own Tech Publication, some highlights:
Politics & society
- Credit card debt collection
- How PinkyDoll Mesmerized the Internet With ‘Ice Cream So Good’
- How Taylor Swift’s ‘Speak Now’ Became the ‘Scary’ Version
- Tony Evers uses veto powers to extend annual increases for public schools for the next four centuries
- Capitalism, power and epistemology: a critique of EA — EA Forum
- The Future of Design Studies Journal
- Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction
Stuff that made me cry
- On Mental Hospitals
- Microloans in Cambodia Are Harming the Poor — The Dial
- Horror and Heartbreak in Oman