Septiembre y octubre

Previous-to-last edition (!)

En Español

• Una demanda bifóbica, sobre una demanda de nulidad matrimonial a un hombre bisexual por serlo. Aquí la conclusión.
• El nombramiento del CGPJ

Videos

• Which Is “Bouba”, and Which Is “Kiki”?, a classical linguistics study revisited
• In Search Of A Flat Earth, on Flat Earthers as a religious group. Content warning for cults.

Podcasts

• Criminal: Errol Morris. I was absolutely obsessed with the first story about Vernon, Florida. Content warning for self-harm.
• Hilary Greaves visits 80000 Hours again and it’s great.

Films & TV shows

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020), weird but interesting.
• The Lighthouse (2019), weirder but interestinger.
• Good Bye Lenin! (2003), a re-watch

Board games

• Timebomb Evolution I like the original Timebomb more but this was… nice?
• Skull Simple but fun.

Math & Computer Science

• Typing is Hard, on programming language typing systems and their various issues
• Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches,
• Unimog - Cloudflare’s edge load balancer, on how Cloudflare’s load balancer works
• Lazy Sort: Counting Comparisons¹, is lazy sort a woth alternative to something like quickselect?

Science & economics

• Why most Multiple-Study Articles are False: An Introduction to the Magic Index
• A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem, on social wealth funds.
• Are Bosses Dictators?. Content warning: the examples here are quite disturbing.
• Paying for Covid : capping excessive salaries to save industries
• Why China is capitalist
• The hyperinflation gallery on hyperinflations around the worls

Politics & society

• Our EU Policy Principles: User Controls. EFF’s policy principles on tech…
• A Plan to Pay Artists, Encourage Competition, and Promote Free Expression and EFF’s plan for paying artists.
• Survival of the Richest on attending Davos and meeting rich people.
• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google. I personally think it would be best for all if Google won this but oops, seems like they are not doing a great job.
• The Huey Long article on Wikipedia. I laughed a lot while reading this. People compare him with Trump; I can see that but this man’s political life and rethoric is way more interesting.
• Meet the CamperForce, Amazon’s Nomadic Retiree Army. Amazon hires temporary workers, usually over 60, who live in RVs outiside of their “fullfilment centers”.
• Why It’s OK to Block Ads.
• Facebook Tried to Limit QAnon. It Failed. on QAnon misinformation spread.
• “I Have Blood On My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation, on Facebook’s political manipulation.