contrast that with this lecture by Terence Tao on how to address LLM-driven changes in your field but hold onto disciplinary values teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...

The current water level of the Rhine in Cologne is 67 centimeters.

Current status: Zeno's paradox as personal website re-design, recursively completing the next 90% of the project forever.

skynet does not have to be conscious for terminators to happen

you can have neighbourhood of multimillion-dollar single family homes or you can have a vibrant, walkable neighbourhood of shops and restaurants but babe, you cannot have both in one place

Europa brennt, aber Shell hat in den vergangenen drei Monaten zehn Milliarden Euro Gewinn gemacht, mehr als 100 Millionen Euro am Tag, mehr als 1000 Euro pro Sekunde: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I've done a lot of dumb programming in my life but I'm proud to say that stellate.app might be the dumbest.

STELLATE — draw a path through genre space

A generative music instrument. Draw a path across a star map of 274 genres and hear the music of wherever you are — rendered live in your browser, deterministic from a seed. By Paul Ford at Aboard.

stellate.app

Their Secret Lives type+=collage, 2023

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” #KenThompson

Update on my dated tech predictions from Jan 1, 2018. Most dates were for the first ten years (spoiler alert: I was overly optimistic when everyone thought I was being a pessimist). New analysis every Jan 1st for 24 more years, on the remainder plus 5 new themes. rodneybrooks.com/house-cleani...

Given recent cinematic news, I’ll offer again this old essay of mine that touches on a previous interpretation of the Odyssey that took even greater liberties… jackrusher.com/journal/sing...

Sing, O Muse

Echoes across time.

jackrusher.com

I think this is a big gap in software design culture. There's lots of commentary on visual design and micro-interaction, but remarkably little explicating conceptual and structural design. This section from Magic Ink is lodged in my mind. buff.ly/Bl9JwTv

I'm in NYC and freeish on Wednesday if anyone wants to hang / talk about PL / make a geospatial silent disco in central park

No spirals in this image

Billionaires having much more success making Earth like Mars than the other way around

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 3w ago

Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

We are hiring and looking for a creator and developer of interactive news apps. German language required. Please share and dm me, if you have any questions. jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/13...

“Focus on understanding why the program is doing what it's doing, rather than why it's not doing what you wanted it to.” (applies equally to human beings) #JonUdell

all will become fidgetable

Glad my Grüne are addressing the 🥵 problem close to the root. Collective action is a force multiplier. District cooling pipes next?

Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg@baxhain.bsky.social · 4w ago

Für mehr Klimaresilienz: #Xhain setzt seine Entsiegelungsoffensive auch 2026 konsequent fort. Nach 4.130 Quadratmeter im Vorjahr weichen nun weitere Asphaltflächen für ein grüneres Berlin. ▶️ www.berlin.de/ba-friedrich...

code generators are good at generating the kind of code that should be almost entirely unnecessary in the first place

✨Creative Code Stammtischs✨ #147 🖼️🎤🪉🤖 🎨 🎭 💻 🎆⚗️📽️🔭🖌️ Part casual hang out, part show-and-tell, the Creative Code Stammtischs is a free event for artists, coders, and anyone interested in the use of code for self expression. Artwork by @sableraph.bsky.social Live at Prachtsaal Studio this Friday

Last time my DB train got delayed I got up, stretched, ordered another beer, and read an extra chapter of my book. 🙀 Last time I got stuck in a highway traffic jam I continued being stuck sitting immobile.

Stephen Graham King🍉@stephengrahamking.com · 2mo ago

I loathe the cult of the car.

Unfortunately not going to make it to @localfirstconf.com this year, but have a couple tickets now that aren’t going to be used. If you’d like to go but couldn’t afford tickets give me a shout!

Job: @maplibre.org is hiring a Graphics Engineer with a strong background in WebGL maplibre.org/jobs/graphic...

Graphics Engineer

The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.

maplibre.org

“I think what's really important right now is for programmers to know what's worth making.” #HalAbelson https://gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/

Over 5,500 mathematical artworks can now be browsed in an attractive new gallery-wall layout on the Bridges website, thanks to the efforts of Nathan Selikoff: gallery.bridgesmathart.org/gallery?seed...

The only sci-fi writer who got everything right was JG Ballard

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · last mo.

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

A reminder that the School of Computer Science at #USyd (@sydneycompsci.bsky.social) is hiring tenure-track* academics through its Faculty's Women In Engineering program! Deadline July 13 (Sydney time): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E... *Australian equiv. of Assist, Assoc, full prof

Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney

Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...

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