Enero y febrero

This first 2024 edition is dedicated to VICE. It was fun while it lasted.

Books

• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
• Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau
• Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas by Irene Solà

Movies, TV shows & documentaries

• Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos
• Thesis (1996) by Alejandro Amenábar

Videos

• The Murder Game Revolution That Has Gripped China
• Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
• CD / Shutter Speed

Podcasts

• Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze (cw: modern slavery, child labor)
• ‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped (cw: modern slavery, sex trafficking, all kinds of terrible stuff)
• Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
• The end of VICE
  • See also Behind the Blog: VICE’s Legacy and the Idea That ‘The Internet Is Forever’ (paywalled)

Computer science & Mathematics

• Floating-Point Determinism
  • Introduction to the Table Maker’s Dilemma
• Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox
• Confidence Intervals
• Universal Quantification and Infinite Conjunction

Politics & society

• Would there still have been global warming under socialism?
• Dating For People With Borderline Personality Disorder
• The Far Out Initiative - Ending Suffering for All Beings
• The business of check cashing
• Leaked sales scheme by Kia Canada reveals customers waiting even longer for new vehicles
• Inside the AI Factory
• qr.blinry.org
• Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible
• Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
• Why it’s impossible to agree on what’s allowed
• How bad are search results? Let’s compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

Ethics

• The Paralysis Argument
• Killing the ants — EA Forum
• Preliminary thoughts on moral weight

Wikifinds

• Safety orange
• Xinjiang Time
• Tokyo subway sarin attack (cw: it’s a terrorist attack, what did you expect)
• Japan Air Lines Flight 351
• Spratly Islands
• E. coli long-term evolution experiment