Noviembre y Diciembre
Parte del log de 2023The last log edition on one of the most intense years of my life (so far!). This issue is dedicated to Montserrat Bellido Durán. Kinda problematic, but you spark joy!
En español
Books
- Hokusai, by Shōtarō Ishinomori
- Rust for Rustaceans, by Jon Gjengset
- Kallocain by Karin Boye
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Triangle of Sadness, 2022
- Mad God, 2021
- Godzilla Minus One, 2023
- Rick and Morty, Season 7
- La Mesías
Videos
- Tom Scott released some more videos for the Language Files series. I particularly liked:
- Plagiarism and You(Tube)
- GitHub Actions Feels Bad. The pro-privative software stance is intensely annoying but you can mostly ignore it.
Podcasts
Some good 80,000 Hours episodes (also one promoting a terrible person but I just won’t link it here!):
- Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
- Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
- Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
Computer science & Mathematics
- The ‘eu’ in eucatastrophe – Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
- God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand The Paper On AI Monosemanticity
- Actually Portable Executable
- I Now Own the Coinhive Domain. Here’s How I’m Fighting Cryptojacking and Doing Good Things with Content Security Policies.
Politics & society
- The Basics & The Gaps Overview - Future Cleantech Architects (Research on gaps for addressing climate change)
- State Capacity
- Will no one rid me of this turbulent pest?
- Overpolicing Doesn’t Solve Underpolicing
- The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers, content warning for ethnic cleansing and genocide apology
- Seeing like a Bank
- Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them
- It is only Q
- Olga of Kiev - Drevlian Uprising
- Nigerian Chrislam