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:
  • Yukio Mishima
  • Assassination of Inejirō Asanuma
  • Humanity Declaration
  • Ghost kanji
  • Character amnesia
• Hadza people
• Inside Keffals’ Battle to Bring Down Kiwi Farms
• New rules make foreign visitors to West Bank declare romantic ties to Palestinians