Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal?
Architect and founder of Larch Lab Michael Eliason makes the case for designing buildings with a single stair, or a Point Access Block.
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Trump Indicted and What That Means
Good take.
The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)
Great piece summarizing how the human desire to create exists independent of market value driven down by AI writers.
The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing - WIRED
Sounds like it's just too hard to build a local network outside of the free reach a platform like Facebook gives you.
What AI Is Good For
As usual someone who writes a lot about the future has some good ideas about AI.
I like tools that let me do more, not do it for me.
What A.I. will make better — and much, much worse - Apple News In Conversation
Nilay has a good view... disruptive and fools humans
How AI Could Write Our Laws - Schneier on Security
Scary thought. Canned legislation is bad enough as it is!
These hybrid human-AI systems will not be detectable from their output.
Bills that are too big to fail are ripe for hacking by microlegislation
The Rise & Fall of Ambrosia Software, '90s Mac Legends - PAX Aus 2019 talk
Cool anecdotes and quotes on Ambrosia. I played so many of these games, especially Escape Velocity.
Pluralistic: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing (21 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Sure feels like an industry wide crackdown on a powerful labor segment.
For many technologists, the allure of digital tools is the possibility of emancipation, a world where we can collaborate to make things without bosses or masters. But for the bosses and masters, automation's allure is the possibility of getting rid of workers, shattering their power, and replacing them with meeker, cheaper, more easily replaced labor.
The RIAA v. Steve Jobs
Interesting anecdote!
Last-minute talks fail to avert massive LAUSD strike, school shutdowns begin - Los Angeles Times
Seems like this is going to keep happening until we fix the budgets, which probably means tax reform... but everyone seems to want to cut public services!
The venture capitalist's dilemma
I like this Prisoner's Dilemma metaphor.
Raising Kids Would Be So Much Better Without Cars
We ceded the streets and everyone is paying in money, time, or injury/death.
Mics Off, 6 Minutes Notice - Anti-Trans Kentucky Forced Detransition Bill Passes After Shameful Secret Meeting
This one is particularly bad, and they have the votes to override a veto.
It Took Me Nearly 40 Years To Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan
A good dive into when to embrace/reject the people who perpetuated stereotypes of their own group.
Green colonialism is flooding the Pacific Northwest
Seems like the solution is the landback movement — then the tribe can decide what to do with it, including green power if they want. The relationship with the county is particularly tragic.
Induction Ranges Are the Biggest Winners of the Gas Stove Fight - Bloomberg Businessweek
I want one.
What the fnu?
I did not know that this was a thing but what a bureaucratic nightmare!
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
Fun reasoning... 8-bit bytes always seemed like a given! But the intersection of decimal numbers, English, cost, and binary transistors makes sense.
SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
What a tragic end to an era. I didn't get a chance to play because of kiddo timing. Skylines has always seemed more complicated than I wanted.
How city light moved a 110 ton transformer through seattle and into the central districts east pine substation very carefully
Very cool and complicated maneuver. You never think about how massive this equipment is.
March Fourth. Fourth March.
We could just mask but even that's too much because it makes people afraid to consume.
Apple's machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing
Sure Apple is still a public company, but they are generally more thoughtful about such things.
The cursed universes of Dana Sibera
The Kickstarter for Shift Happens still has 10 days to go. Please help us get to $700,000 and unlock a free nice colorful third-volume for everyone by...
Breaking down the Raktajino, the Klingon coffee drink from ‘Star Trek’
I did not expect the Times to run an article like this.
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AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone
Not surprising that they're being used to generate spam. Disappoiting it's impacting small publications first.