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modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics | The Roof is on Phire

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:01:56 +0000

The only reason I even moved to Omnivore is because Mozilla has been systematically neglecting and underfunding Pocket for years and the app is increasingly dominated by things I did not save, the literal one job it had, and I had moved to Pocket after Instapaper first changed ownership in 2013 or whatever and I didn’t like the new owners, and I also can’t go back to Pinboard because while I used to love that dude’s writing he’s turned into a transphobic asshole crank so fuck him, but like, why do I even know that?? Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo which is why I will never pay for their email service which otherwise seems pretty cool, why do I know that Brave is the homophobic browser in bed with cryptocurrency bros, why do I know that the Kagi dude thinks adding suicide prevention hotlines to search results for “how to kill yourself” is censorship, why do I know about Matt Mullendweeb’s entire existence?? The modern world is unbelievably stupid, and if you don’t pay attention to the stupidity when something bad happens someone shows up in your notifications all like, well what did you expect. I expect you to fuck off!!

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Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:30:06 +0000

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Inform: Past, Present, Future

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:42:23 +0000

This is the talk and slides from the June 2018 London IF meetup, held at Elephant Studios in London South Bank University on 9 June 2018. I was invited to speak about Inform, past, present and future. via Pocket

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The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian

Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:42:23 +0000

It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. via Pocket

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My Serverless Adventure

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:39:08 +0000

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The sound of SID: 35 years of chiptune's influence on electronic music

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 01:42:20 +0000

It can be hard to write about the music of videogames while we are bathed in the projected glory of today’s high-definition, 4K, 60-frames-per-second photorealistic graphics. via Pocket

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Gamasutra: Sebastien BENARD's Blog - Building the Level Design of a procedurally generated Metroidvania: a hybrid approach.

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:51:13 +0000

My name is Sebastien Benard and I'm currently working as the Lead Designer on Dead Cells, a procedurally generated Metroidvania. As you would expect, questions about the quality of our procedural generation pop up very regularly, with both players and other devs. via Pocket

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Stewart Brand Recalls First 'Spacewar' Video Game Tournament - Rolling Stone

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:10:17 +0000

The first video game tournament was held on October 19th, 1972. Competitors gathered at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in Los Altos, California to do battle in the sci-fi rocket combat game Spacewar. via Pocket

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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:56:04 +0000

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. via Pocket

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On Quiet Developers – Seán Hanson – Medium

Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:01:27 +0000

As a UI engineer, I’m as passionate about diversity and accessibility in the tech industry as I am about JavaScript. via Pocket

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End of the road: will automation put an end to the American trucker? | Technology | The Guardian

Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:01:09 +0000

Jeff Baxter’s sunflower-yellow Kenworth truck shines as bright and almost as big as the sun. Four men clean the glistening cab in the hangar-like truck wash at Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop. via Pocket

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Insentricity :: Testing DRAM Using an Arduino ::

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:37:27 +0000

A couple of weekends ago I was in the mood to do some retrogaming and didn’t know what I wanted to play so I asked for some suggestions from Twitter. via Pocket

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Las Vegas should entirely change how we think about gun control.

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:30 +0000

In 2004, a blue-ribbon commission issued its report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Many lapses had allowed the plot to succeed, the report concluded, but the central failure was a lack of imagination. via Pocket

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A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for “BASIC Month” and a Chat with Its Author | Byte Cellar

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:27 +0000

July was BASIC Month over at r/Retrobattlestations and for that competition I decided to reach for my TI-99/4A and type in a TI Extended BASIC game called Pearl Harbor from the 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games…for the second time in 35 years. via Pocket

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A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for “BASIC Month” and a Chat with Its Author | Byte Cellar

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:27 +0000

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