Marzo y abril

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En español

• Tecnicismos
• La ley de eutanasia

Videos & podcasts

• Monster Men: Interpreting Superheroes as Monsters
• This is Love - Among the Oak Trees, content warning for homophobia.

Fiction

• MMAcevedo, a fictional Wikipedia article on brain scans.
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Computer Science

• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app’s perspective, now do NSO Group.
• Rust in the Linux kernel, exciting!!
• “What The Hardware Does” is not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory, on uninitialized memory on Rust.
• Leap Smear. How do computers deal with leap seconds? Do they repeat a second? Nah, it surely is much better to make every second the day before just slightly longer.
• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call.
• Metaheuristics – the Metaphor Exposed. Fun fact: I had to work on reimplementing one of the mentioned papers.

Politics & society

• Why has climate economics failed us?, this edition post on why you shouldn’t trust economists.
• How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?, a difficult question, it turns out.
• The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple, a counterpart to the cult of the mango.
• From Crypto Art to Trading Cards, Investment Manias Abound
• Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit? The answer is clearly no but people do it anyway.
• Oh, the intellectual property rights you’ll extend. I have a more aggressive view on this topic than the author but it’s interesting nonetheless.
• Global poverty in an unequal world: Who is considered poor in a rich country? And what does this mean for our understanding of global poverty?. On global poverty lines.

Cyberpunk-adjacent

• HumanIPO - Participate in human IPOs of people you believe in.. A terrible idea.
• Treacherous turns in the wild, on AI behaving nicely in sandboxes but not IRL.
• Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced to Sign ‘Biometric Consent’ Form or Lose Job, yikes.
• A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 (and the 16$ to entirely into buying a SIM card).
• Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know..

Cool Wikipedia articles

• Mautam, if I had to guess and article I read was fake it would be this one.
• Semantic satiation
• Line-item veto in the United States, US law is just terrible.