Un registro no exhaustivo de algunas de las cosas que he hecho, películas y series que he visto, artículos que he leído y podcasts que he escuchado en 2024. Leo y comparto con frecuencia cosas con las que no estoy totalmente de acuerdo o autores que en general son ideológicamente opuestos a mí: compartir algo aquí no implica que esté de acuerdo con su contenido.
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Enero y febrero
This first 2024 edition is dedicated to VICE. It was fun while it lasted.
Books
- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
- Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau
- Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas by Irene Solà
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos
- Thesis (1996) by Alejandro Amenábar
Videos
- The Murder Game Revolution That Has Gripped China
- Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
- CD / Shutter Speed
Podcasts
- Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze (cw: modern slavery, child labor)
- ‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped (cw: modern slavery, sex trafficking, all kinds of terrible stuff)
- Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
- The end of VICE
- See also Behind the Blog: VICE’s Legacy and the Idea That ‘The Internet Is Forever’ (paywalled)
Computer science & Mathematics
- Floating-Point Determinism
- Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox
- Confidence Intervals
- Universal Quantification and Infinite Conjunction
Politics & society
- Would there still have been global warming under socialism?
- Dating For People With Borderline Personality Disorder
- The Far Out Initiative - Ending Suffering for All Beings
- The business of check cashing
- Leaked sales scheme by Kia Canada reveals customers waiting even longer for new vehicles
- Inside the AI Factory
- qr.blinry.org
- Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- Why it’s impossible to agree on what’s allowed
- How bad are search results? Let’s compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Ethics
Wikifinds
- Safety orange
- Xinjiang Time
- Tokyo subway sarin attack (cw: it’s a terrorist attack, what did you expect)
- Japan Air Lines Flight 351
- Spratly Islands
- E. coli long-term evolution experiment
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Marzo y abril
This second 2024 edition is dedicated to Nathan Fielder. May you give us more TV shows for the years to come.
Books
- La coleur des choses, Martin Panchaud
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Big Boys (2022), Season 1
- Shōgun (2024), Season 1
- Dune: Part Two (2024)
- Perfect Days (2023)
Videos
Podcasts
- Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
- Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
Computer science & Mathematics
- Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior
- How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
- Population- vs. individual-level differences
Politics & society
- No Reservations
- Financial systems take a holiday
- How [GiveWell] works, #3: Our analyses involve judgment calls — EA Forum
- Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?
- The Lure of Divorce (cw: discussion of mental health issues)
- Book excerpt: Death Row Welcomes You, by Steven Hale (cw: murders, both state-sanctioned and not)
- How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen (cw: famine, extreme poverty, despair)
- The human feet that routinely wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest, explained (cw: it’s literally human feet)
Cyberpunk-adjacent
- A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam
- The XZ Utils backdoor is a symptom of a larger problem
- Censorship: How Does It Work?
Privacy & Big Tech
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
- Apple, Meta, and Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
- Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users. Critics Say It’s ‘Terrifying.’
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Mayo y junio
The third 2024 edition is dedicated to Julian Assange.
En español
Books
- MADK (vol. 1) by Ryo Suzuri
- Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Big Boys (2024), Season 2
- Poor Things (2024), rewatch
- The Day of The Beast (2024), rewatch
Videos
- The Six-Country Fight Over These Tiny, Terrible Islands
- The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time
- Why We Can’t Build Better Cities
- How AI Stole the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Emoji
Podcasts
- From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?
- Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
- Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
Computer science & Mathematics
- Moving faster
- List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs
- Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
- Pair Your Compilers At The ABI Café - Faultlore
- A discussion of discussions on AI bias
Politics & society
- No magic money trees
- The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement
Dystopian stuff
- Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration
- Tools for Thinking About Censorship – Ex Urbe
- Documents Show Internal Clash Before U.S. Officials Pushed to Weaken Toddler Formula Rules
- At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights
Animals?
- America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
- Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
- Choice architecture in food services: drive revenue and increase sustainability with more plant-based meals for flexitarians
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Julio y agosto
The fourth 2024 edition is dedicated to Junta Yamaguchi.
En español
- El podcast de Hechos reales
- El podcast sobre el Tamayazo
- El podcast Agur, ETA
- Tengo Miedo, Torero
- La Casa
Books
Board games
Video content
Movies
- River (2023), I liked Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes more from the same director
- Challengers
- Deadpool & Wolverine
TV shows
- Sunny, Season 1
- Solar Opposites, Season 5
- Smiling Friends, Seasons 1 & 2
- House of the Dragon, Season 2
- Fargo, Season 5
Youtube
- The Air We Breathe
- Basically everything from Howtown
Podcasts
Computer science, Mathematics & Science
- How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
- All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second @ Things Of Interest
- Khinchin’s constant.
- Although almost all numbers satisfy this property, it has not been proven for any real number not specifically constructed for the purpose.
- Disappearing polymorph
- Beware of Sharkless Waters
Politics & society
- Borderline Personality and Self-Understanding of Psychopathology
- Let’s Read A Study: The Impact of Denying a Wanted Abortion on Women and Children
- Contra Charles Fain Lehman On Mentally Ill Homeless People (cw: dehumanizing treatment of homeless people)
- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Elon?
- Predistribution as Credible Commitment
- Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Ban the Box
- Working title (insurance)
Dystopian stuff
Big Tech
- Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From
- Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
- Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
- hangout_services/thunk.js
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Septiembre y octubre
The fifth 2024 edition is dedicated to the .su domain.
Books
Board games & videogames
Movies
- Sleuth
- Alien: Romulus
- The Room Next Door
- No me llame Ternera
- Heartstopper, Season 3
- Parliament, Season 1
Podcasts
- The QAA Podcast is cool
- From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office
- How the U.S. Government Tracks Your Phone
- The Extreme Right in Postwar Japan
- See also Nippon Kaigi
Computer science, Mathematics & science
- The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
- Overview of cross-architecture portability problems
- The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
- Vegan cheese that tastes like cheese? These startups may have cracked the code.
- There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Politics & society
- Arabic chat alphabet
- Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González
- Inside Elon Musk’s Mushrooming Security Apparatus
- Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie’s blog
Dystopian stuff
- This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
- Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
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Noviembre y diciembre
The sixth and last 2024 edition is dedicated to Luigi.
Books
- The Summer Hikaru Died, by Mokumokuren
- Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, by Susan J. Brison
- Un lugar soleado para gente sombría, by Mariana Enríquez
Board games & videogames
I played but did not finish all of these:
- Lucifer Within Us
- Schim
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
I also played these board games, they were all quite nice!
TV Shows
I watched a bunch of TV shows:
- A Man on the inside, Season 1
- Servant, Season 4
- Celeste, Season 1
- Murder at the end of the world, Season 1. Meh.
Movies
I watched a lot of movies on these past two months. My top 3 are:
- Tokyo Godfathers, 2003
- The Substance, 2024
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994
I also enjoyed:
- Nosferatu, 2024
- La flor de mi secreto, 1995
- La voz humana, 2020
- Heretic, 2024
- Robot Dreams, 2023
- Sweet Bean, 2015
- Anatomy of a Fall, 2023
I also re-watched a bunch of Scream movies.
Youtube
- The Making of Live Events: Introducing the Industry to the Next Generation
- All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
- This open problem taught me what topology is
Podcasts
- Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals
- How Apple is Locking Out Cops, which talks about “Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out”
- 🇪🇸 Sin control. El universo de Javier Milei
- 🇪🇸 Quién es quién en la cumbre global de antiabortistas
Computer science, Mathematics & science
- Go’s Weird Little Iterators · mcyoung
- Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going
- Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? · mcyoung
- Legacy Safety: The Wrocław C++ Meeting
- Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Maintainers
- When is 2 qualitatively different from 3?
- What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? - The Old New Thing
- The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger - The Atlantic
Politics & society
- The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’
- A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore
- What We Learned From Red Teaming Our Top Charities
- Copyright Ownership and Performance Art - Center for Art Law
- Analysis: Kamala Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism
- Character Amnesia in China
- Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022, “we found that game console ownership, along with increased game play, improved mental well-being.”
- 🇪🇸 Vivir sin derechos: apátridas, las personas invisibles
Cyberpunk adjacent
- DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis
- No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
- Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign
Misc
- Asches to Asches, from when Scott Alexander wrote good stuff
- I Love These Oddly-Specific Cleaning Products - Aftermath
- Mythos Exposure Disorder