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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Brilliant video showing the three shapes of stories.
Added 4 months ago
Words of Type | Encyclopedia
https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/?view=grid
This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!
Added 5 months ago
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/
It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.
Added 5 months ago
The Mondrian introduction to functional optics
https://marcosh.github.io/post/2025/10/07/the-mondrian-introduction-to-functional-optics.html
An attempt to explain some programming paradigm visually.
Added 1 month ago
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true.
https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/31/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true/
Not sure what the real source is, but work less.
Added 5 months ago
Broken
Opinie | De geesten worden klaargemaakt voor een permanente mobilisatie - NRC
https://archive.ph/LVZm3
> Kritiek op westerse oorlogstaal wordt gezien als naïef, maar er is een blind vertrouwen op een industrie die geld verdient met het uiteenrijten van lichamen.
> Laten we weigeren onze kinderen op te offeren in naam van een natiestaat
Added 3 months ago
Luister naar moslimvrouwen, zegt schrijver Houria Bouteldja. ‘Een vrouw met hoofddoek zegt tegen witte mensen: ik behoor jou niet toe’ | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/luister-naar-moslimvrouwen-zegt-schrijver-houria-bouteldja-een-vrouw-met-hoofddoek-zegt-tegen-witte-mensen-ik-behoor-jou-niet-toe~bc577135d/
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.
Added 3 months ago
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t
Added 5 months ago
Granular Time — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/granular-time/
Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom
Added 5 months ago
The JavaScript Date Quiz
https://jsdate.wtf/
Brrrr, date in javascript is even worse than I thought. Ridiculous.
Added 3 months ago
The web behind glass · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass
Liquid glass is bad.
Added 1 month ago
Is HSL really easier to use? • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/hsl-bad.html
So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.
Added 5 months ago
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Productivity did not go up
Added 3 months ago
Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies
https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/
Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.
Added 4 months ago
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy
Added 4 months ago
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On IPW's (EWD 867)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html
> 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.
Added 3 months ago
Doctored Doom
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/drdoom/
Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education
Added 4 months ago
Do you speak typography? » Fontstand News
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/
Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.
Added 5 months ago
Type Foundry Directory
https://typefoundry.directory/
> an independently researched and operated endeavor which primarily focuses on active, independent type designers and foundries.
Added 3 months ago
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram - Fonts In Use
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram
When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link
Added 3 months ago
AI Images and Sketchy Realism — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/ai-images-and-sketchy-realism/
Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.
Added 5 months ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/
Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam
Added 3 months ago
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time
Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.
Added 5 months ago
How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/
A well informed rant against rutger bregman and his school for moral ambition, a *powerwashing* school for the elite, for them to feel good, but not to solve the issues they cause irl.
Added 3 months ago