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!

• Arcs
• Wyrmspan
• Cities

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