This man wants to sell his home. He's using a Lego replica to help
cbc.ca
Huddleston even built an additional, mini-scale version of the project house to sit within the Lego build itself.
Links
Links to things that I've found interesting, sometimes with commentary.
Currently a combination of:
- Pinboard bookmarks that I make public (general reading)
- GitHub starred repositories (mostly software & hardware designs)
- Thingiverse likes (3D prints)
- Cults likes (more 3D prints)
I wrote a post about how this system works and there is also an RSS feed available.
German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
nytimes.com
Mr. Sielaff said he was denied a translator and had trouble understanding what was happening to him. Ms. Brösche’s friends said she was kept in solitary confinement for nine days. By their accounts, both were flown back to Germany without a clear understanding of why they were detained in the first place.
I Love ‘Severance.’ Now End It.
nytimes.com
The devoted fan (including this one) is left with many unanswered questions, as well as that greatest of adult freedoms: the space to think through multiple meanings for ourselves, with no answers imposed on us by the storytellers.
This is as it should be. And this is how it should conclude.
Agree, on this and many other instances. We need more ambivalence and opportunity for self-thought.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
nytimes.com
A video circulating on social media on Wednesday showed a woman in a hijab and white coat being surrounded on a sidewalk, handcuffed and led away by masked plainclothes officers driving unmarked cars.
Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
nytimes.com
“This is my best story,” he added. “The day the Grateful Dead freaked out Led Zeppelin.”
agsb/milliForth-6502
github.com
The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502. Based in milliForth for x86.
AI is not as effective as it might appear
gamesradar.com
“Right now, most of the popular AIs are based on large language models,” AI Limit producer Yang Bin tells GamesRadar+ in an email interview. “Such tools can produce an imitation of the average value of a large amount of data. Our speculation is that within a short period of time, it won’t be able to create works that surpass the average level of its training samples. We hope to explore works that are more creative. Therefore, it doesn’t seem to have fundamental benefits for now.”
Kimbsy/autology
github.com
A hot take on Lisp metaprogramming
Enshittification as a matter of taste
daverupert.com
When a website adds one (privacy-preserving) ad to a website, I say “Okay”. Two, I permit it. Three, I say “Easy now” but still scroll through unencumbered. But when the website adds a fifth, seventh, twelfth ad… I know a person who lacks taste is at the wheel. I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect.
Ryan Norbauer: "What we got"
norbauer.co
We were promised a grassroots global bazaar; what we got was a creepy panopticon, purpose-built for authoritarians and monopolists. Instead of an egalitarian global community of man, we got the glow of a screen in an empty room, social media status anxiety, and AI companions mining our loneliness and vulnerabilities for better ad targeting. We have assassination drones, but flying cars are nowhere to be found.