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 2022. 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
En español
- Todo bajo el sol, de Ana Penyas
Videos
- Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs. There are some minor inaccuracies re: how NFTs have been stolen but it’s otherwise a very well put (albeit long and dense) video essay
- Why do I look like this? SexyCyborg’s origin story
- Solving Wordle using information theory
TV shows, movies & documentaries
- Euphoria, Season 1
- Fargo, Season 3
- Death on the Nile, 3/5 stars
- The Matrix Resurrections, 3/5 stars
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, 3.5/5 stars
Books
- House of Leaves. I spent a lot of time reading this, and read less articles instead. I had never read anything from the genre, and it may be that there are better books of this kind, but this was a pretty cool read.
Computer Science & Math
- Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox, because, of course, tons of websites did not foresee that you could have a three digit version in a browser, duh. It’s interesting to compare this to curl’s approach, which seems to be to avoid version 7.100 at all costs.
- Contexts and capabilities in Rust. I don’t love the feel of this, but it’s a good stab at a problem not only present on Rust.
- On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow. Did you know there was a patent on a one line function to calculate the average of two unsigned integers?
- Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage. Woopsies.
- Reasons for servers to support IPv6
- Kernel security: beyond bug fixing
- Coming to Agreement, a logic puzzle for Oxford admissions interviews, the only mathy thing on this section (sorry!)
- Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, a fascinating Unicode proposal.
Social commentary of CS issues
- Enforcing the pyramid of Open Source
- My first impressions of web3
- Google Misled Publishers and Advertisers, Unredacted Lawsuit Alleges
Science and economics
- Three Months in Monte Carlo, an interactive explanation of Monte Carlo methods.
Politics and society
- Reality shifting: psychological features of an emergent online daydreaming culture. You heard of tulpamancy, now prepare for “imagining Draco Malfoy is my boyfriend and believing it’s actually true”.
- Voice confrontation, not a very interesting article but it’s cool to know this has a name.
- Echolocating bats rely on an innate speed-of-sound reference
- Startup Ideas · Gwern.net, wild and evil ideas for startups.
- How elephants were depicted on medieval texts, tag yourself.
- 1989 California medfly attack, bioterrorism?
- America’s Gambling Addiction Is Metastasizing
- ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’, content warning for all bad things under the sun.
- Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
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Marzo y abril
En español
- Madres Paralelas
TV shows, movies & documentaries
- Shoplifters
- C.R.A.Z.Y
- But I’m a Cheerleader (rewatch)
- Heartstopper, Season 1
- Emily in Paris, Season 1
Computer Science & Math
- mtime comparison considered harmful
- Rust “Strict Provenance” experiment. See also:
- C Isn’t A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore. Two articles that I read because of this:
- Rust Lang team roadmap
- Let us never speak of these values again.
- Designing Deinitialization in Programming Languages
- Three Months in Monte Carlo
Politics & society
- My Big Fat Wikipedia Hole. Many interesting articles, a couple that I really enjoyed were:
- Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”
- Wikipédia:Affaire de Pierre-sur-Haute
- The problems with the concept of “cultural appropriation”
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Mayo y junio
En español
- La anarquía explicada a los niños
- Esferas Invisibles
- Crisis de memoria
- Twitter tiene un nuevo dueño. Esto es lo que debería hacer.
TV shows, movies & documentaries
- The Boys, Season 3
- Severance, Season 1
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars All Winners
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (★★)
- Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (★★★★★)
Videogames
- Celeste
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
Politics & society
- Among the landlords
- Global Green New Deal for the Developing World
- Social Wealth Fund for America ❖ People’s Policy Project
- Common Wealth: workers’ ownership in the history of socialism
- Breaking Unions With the Language of Diversity and Social Justice
- Why I Am Not A Liberal
- Like a Lemon to a Lime, a Lime to a Lemon
- Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan
- Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Installing a payphone in my house
- The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers
- Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment
- Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism and What We Can Do to Stop It
- James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination
Privacy & cyberpunk
- How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
- Cops Don’t Need GPS Data to Track Your Phone at Protests
- How to hide your house on every map app
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Julio y agosto
This issue is dedicated to Sanna Marin, since she seems very cool based on what I hear from the news recently.
Podcasts
- Episode 193: A Ring and a Bottle and Episode 194: The Divorce Colony - Criminal
- Can Suing Gun Manufacturers Reduce Gun Violence?
- The Queer Children’s Books Targeted By the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
Videos
- The Simple Secret of Runway Digits
- How to lie using visual proofs
- Did People Used to Look Older?
- Is Art Meaningless?
TV shows, movies & documentaries
- Better Call Saul (Season 6)
- Sandman (Season 1)
- Our Flag Means Death (Season 1)
- Severance (Season 1)
Written things
No separate categories this time, sorry!
- What is chemsex
- How Leftists Should Debate in Mainstream Spaces
- Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago
- Democracy data: how do researchers identify which countries are democratic?, or, for a more objective title, ‘what do researchers and/or Lenin-denounced magazines call democratic?’
- Atlas Altera
- CFAR Participant handbook 2021. I only read the ones that are ‘Established and confirmed’ and ‘Firm’; I am generally very skeptical of ‘seemingly sensible but not really well-studied’ advice on this area, but you do you!
- A Tutorial on Thompson Sampling
- Google’s technical writing pre-class material is pretty good.
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Septiembre y octubre
This issue is dedicated to BLÅHAJ.
Podcasts
- Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
- ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11
- Major Decisions Ahead for the Supreme Court
Videos
- Freezing water expands. What if you don’t let it?
- The US Military’s Massive Global Transportation System
- This is a video about video
TV shows, movies & documentaries
- Rick and Morty, (the part that has been released so far of) Season 6
- The Rehearsal, Season 1
- House of the Dragon, Season 1
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 8
Books
- Maurice by E.M. Forster
- Apocalypse Ready: The Manual of Manuals; a Century of Panic Prevention by Taras Young
- Nadie miraba hacia aquí. Un ensayo sobre arte y VIH/sida by Andrea Galaxina
Computer science
- Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
- Not an endorsement of Ethereum, and it would be better to have an independently verified report on this, but it is… positive? at least? Ethereum Energy Consumption
- Mongolian encoding is hard!
- Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals!
- Cosmic Ray Flips Bit, Assists Mario 64 Speedrunner, also this
Politics & society
- The Humiliating History of the TSA
- I was arrested after asking “who elected him?” at the proclamation of King Charles
- Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
- I read a bit about 20th century Japanese history, which veered into Japan in general:
- Hadza people
- Inside Keffals’ Battle to Bring Down Kiwi Farms
- New rules make foreign visitors to West Bank declare romantic ties to Palestinians
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Noviembre y diciembre
This issue is dedicated to Greta Thunberg.
En español
Podcasts
Videos
- ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
- ROBLOX_OOF.mp3
- The Incredible Speedrun History of Zelda: The Wind Waker
TV shows, movies & documentaries
- As Bestas
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Glass Onion
- Marrowbone
- Avatar: The Way of the Water
- The Rehearsal, Season 1
- White Lotus, Season 2
- Rick and Morty, Season 6
Computer science & mathematics
- If we must, let’s talk about safety (in C++)
- Soursop and Ponies in Kona: A C++ Committee Trip Report
- Perhaps It Is A Bad Thing That The World’s Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs
- Looking for a Needle that Might Not Be in an Infinite Haystack
- Problem 14 Dynamic Programming Solutions · Gwern.net
- a historical and technical retrospective [of systemd]
- Large Cardinals and Determinacy
Politics & Society
- How Therapy Works
- Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem (link contains an ‘unlocked article code’ to avoid paywall, remove if you don’t want to be tracked!)
- Introducing Myself - Ursula K. Leguin
- Japanese Play-by-Postcard RPGs: Net Games
- The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles (content warning for, well, you can guess it).
- Rationalists and the Cultic Milieu
- annas-archive.org
- Chinese Mobile App UI Trends
- Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans.
- Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
- Liam Kofi Bright, White Psychodrama - PhilPapers
- See also Psychiatric Psychodrama