µblog - archive for 2024-03 🏳️‍🌈

You know what would be cool? A soulslike game in Gene Wolf’s “Book of the New Sun” mythos. Imagine adventuring as Severian, clad in fuligin, weilding Terminus Est (“This is the line of division”).

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A combination of a lobste.rs API/JSON change and me not reading emails from cron has led to a backlog of posts not entered into HN&&LO. This issue has been corrected and refunds issued to affected users.

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If you’re new here, you might wonder how such an obvious blunder got past testing and code review, and the answer is easy: they didn’t do any of those things.

– The Daily WTF: How About Next Month

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🔗⚡💀 Protos: Critics claim ‘buggy’ Bitcoin Lightning Network is slowly dying

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🔗 David Gerard: Tether shareholder Christopher Harborne’s suit against the Wall Street Journal and threats to blogs

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🔗 Terrifying vistas of reality: the philosophy of H P Lovecraft

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🇸🇪📺 Dubbelstötarna (1980), Dubbelsvindlarna (1981) och Studierektorns sista strid (1985)

Klassisk svensk kriminalkomedi. Finns på Öppet arkiv på SVT!

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Hey recruitment platform, how about sending out the response survey until after I get the job, hmmm?

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If you see a dog that looks exactly like another dog, that’s a doggelganger.

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🔗 Ed Zitron: Have We Reached Peak AI?

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🔗🖥 The Daily WTF: Check Your Email

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🔗 Londonist: In Search Of The Devil’s Acre

(Via Britain’s interwar apartment boom)

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🔗 g, a Statistical Myth (2007)

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🔗 Vehicle Cloning — Another Reason Not To Use Automated License Plate Readers

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🔗 “This is just weird”: BuzzFeed News’ former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media

Edit now updated with details around the current kerfuffle around Kate’s manipulated photo.

(via)

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🇸🇪 SMHI varnar för både höga flöden och gräsbränder – våren är här!

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🔗📸 The heavy hand of God: Europe’s brutalist churches – in pictures

These are amazing pics. I legit love modern church architecture.

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Quislings for our future AI overlords auditioning on HN:

Why do we always want to cling to the idea that a superhuman intelligence not aligning with human needs would mean that the superhuman intelligence was somehow wrong?

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I had a reason to reference this post in a comment elsewhere, and came up with the following summary:

The declining returns of AI promises

• AI is superintelligence (SFnal tropes like HAL 9000)
• AI will make knowledge workers obsolete (the promise of “expert systems”)
• AI will replace human vehicle operators
• AI will replace paralegals and coders
• AI has made illustrators, stock photographers and spam email copywriters redundant (← we are here)
• for $10/month, you will be able to emulate the average Reddit poster (← the glorious apotheosis)

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🔗🖥 Memory Unsafety is a Culture Issue

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🇸🇪 allteftersom serierna går i Maria Wern är det färre och färre bofasta på Gotland som talar gotländska

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🇸🇪 alla bär idiotbollen i det här avsnittet av Maria Wern.

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