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Sound effects of clocks, free to use
AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.
While the idea is nice: own your time, don’t let notifications and managers own it. There is one important flaw though: the word billionaire. Becoming a billionaire is not a good idea, it is a ridiculous american dream.
Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.
This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!
The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim.
In retrospect, this accident of history has been a disaster, since almost all the opinions pushed by the commercial propaganda were false, and, in addition, the propaganda has been so effective that for many those opinions have become dogmata that can no longer be challenged without committing heresy.
Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.
One of many people warning for a bubble
Excellent article for discussions about privacy
Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.
The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?
Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.
Interesting: programming is not about finishing a product, it is about making, understanding and working with the thing. So programming is not about the end result, it is about the experience. Reminds me of chronos vs kairos.
When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”
Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.
About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.
Being lazy is a good idea, and I need to look into view transitions.
Bovendien is het moeilijk voor te stellen hoe radicale gelijkwaardigheid eruitziet, het is onbekend terrein. Ik weet ook niet hoe een wereld zonder uitbuiting eruit zou zien, maar de huidige wereldorde leidt tot oorlog en geweld, dus het is het onderzoeken waard.
Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.
Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.
Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:
very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.