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Sunday, 28 September 2025
quote [ Wikipedia is not perfect (lack of diversity, moderation…) and it remains a fragile system. Still, I wanted to picture it as a post-human vestige, an artifact invaded by biomorphic figures and spreading typography. My work quickly focused on how to create organic ornaments, affecting the encyclopedia’s interface, its typography, the figures and the Wikipedia logo itself. ]
Interesting art project from 2022 with fonts being a sort of dynamic Zalgo text and the cursor looking like a fly.
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Wednesday, 24 September 2025
quote [ “How do I export my ChatGPT history?”
[…] Bellingham and Everett are the main focus of this story not because they’re outliers, but because they were the fastest and most comprehensive in their responses. ] So you can obtain public records on AI usage. It turns out how you'd expect it.
Thumb via New Old Stock.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2025
quote [ I recently read Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the book on which the Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green (1973) is based. My edition features an introduction by Paul Erhlich, solemnly noting that the nightmarish dystopia depicted of a vastly overpopulated New York City is less a work of science fiction than a sneak preview. ]
Ah, it's just never right for these over- and underpopulation doomers.
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Monday, 22 September 2025
quote [ We have a situation / What the hell are we to do? Oh god / What's the hesitation? / Let's have a conversation ]
Heard this on the radio: second single of his newly released album. Great lyrics and production. Sort of an upbeat grime style from UK. Here's an interview on Dazed.
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Sunday, 21 September 2025
quote [ Fill your quota, or you will explode. ]
Pretty addicting incremental miner .. squarely outside the non-extractive camp. Main link goes to free prototype, full game on Steam only. There's a nice info sheet on incrementaldb.com (didn't know that existed) and a snarky Bluesky account. Trailer in extended, recommended via RPS comments.
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Saturday, 20 September 2025
quote [ my story-telling game engine, designed to be very easy to use, and it can run as a local build or in your browser. ]
Nice writeup on retro adventure interfaces for an engine that's powered by text files and a simple C compiler (didn't test, is multi-platform though) from Mattias Gustavsson
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quote [ “People go after horror films not because they’re violent, but because a lot of times horror films have values that contradict normal values,” he said. “That’s why people are so outraged. ]
Great read. All those laid off journalists produce more existential articles than you can keep track of.
[Edit: ok, checking on Sarah Kendzior, that might have been a bit rude]
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Friday, 19 September 2025
quote [ Proof you really can do anything if you want it bad enough ]
Blasphemy! Sorcery! The black arts of surface physics. Note the lovely illustrations.
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Thursday, 18 September 2025
quote [ Something like 300 friends sounds right. Any more than that and you're a collector, and not using the platform to foster connection.
This feature alone already removes 90% of the marketing interests in the platform. ] cough-cough – ok, like, other than most of the HN commenters, I feel like the remaining few at this place have some worthwile insights on the topic.
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Saturday, 13 September 2025
quote [ In 2009, law professors David A. Hoffman and Salil K. Mehra published a paper analyzing conflicts like these on Wikipedia and noted something unusual. Wikipedia’s dispute resolution system does not actually resolve disputes. In fact, it seems to facilitate them continuing forever.
These disputes may be crucial to Wikipedia’s success ] On political/totalitarian pressure exerted over Wiki editors, usurptation attempts and efforts in moderation – exciting and boring at the same time.
Extended: older critique on Wikipedia itself, that seems a bit dated by now but points out the impossibility of measuring importance by comittee. Note also: you can help the Archive Team by scraping Typepad.
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