Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog

A critique of how large venture capital companies have become giant private equity companies with political agendas

Mike Bostock's hosted notebook visualization platform has been full yreinvented, incorporating AI and changing the business model

Excellent music player has the first new release in a year

A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army

Another roundup of information about the tech guy with over fifteen years of being awful

Another set of links about DHH's embrace of white supremacy

OpenStreetmap discusses Trump's inane renaming of one of the Great Lakes

Nice story of hacking up a useful new networking tool based on Tailscale components

Detailed testing of the game in Linux and in Windows experimenting with different memory allocation systems.

Incandescent review of Marlon James new novel about homophobia and being gay in 1980s Jamaica

A stark description of just how badly Trump is trying to subvert the coming election

Hard data on how bad AI scraping is from someone who runs the Linux kernel source repository. 98% of requests are bot junk, many coming from a botnet.

An analysis of the Hugging Face hack, in particular how a swarm of agents spontaneously coordinated and shared information via a message board.

An evocative term for a secondary parish church built in a more convenient location than the primary one

Lovely obituary from Tressie McMillan Cottom

Essay on a new trend in progressive politics, made popular by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quoting "Woke 1.0" in a TV interview

2021 essay, long thoughtful read on Dolly Parton's unique popularity despite being at the center of a bunch of American cultural lightning rods

Thoughtful editorial on the role that race plays in the discussion about and death of the Cambridge professor

Details of experiments with an AI escaping its virtual machine

Proxy for Nazi Twitter is offline, they got a cease & desist

Large online game moving 2.4M lines of code from Stackless Python 2.7 to some sort of Python 3

You can modify small LLMs on your own machine to produce a customized AI

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

Peer to peer networking tools

Detailed investigative journalism on the ecosystem of Democratic fundraisers that aggressively get small donations from senior citizens.

Developer demo of the $1B gaming fraud goes diastrously wrong

Simple static website with various images that demonstrate HDR and gamuts other than sRGB

More software for streaming video live from Usenet.

A solution for streaming any pirated media from Usenet to Plex.

Tools for removing censorship in open weight LLMs

Long distance bike routes across the United States

Beloved Portland software company got attacked by someone demanding a ransom.

Sweet story from Matt about being 17 and getting his revenge on a bad boss

A gem of a website, detailed info on obscure and closed airports.

A podcast for and about people who came out LGBT later in life

Attacks on a system by reprogramming its memory controller on the fly, giving you full access to all RAM protected or not

New game is a popular fun social experience, a game developer talks about why it works

My small town decided to remove a deployed Flock system.

After Musk bought Twitter ad revenue declined by ⅔

A small group keeps the Linux-for-smartphones alive, at least on a few devices

Fun video of a woman from Naoero (Nauru) speaking in a mix of Nauruan and English

Online multiplayer game, explore a maze.

Playing music found in Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights".

Consumed with thought of a potential prison sentence, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) reflects on his and Greg’s (Nicholas Braun) divergent career prospects and thei...

Trailer for the 2006 Linklater film of PK Dick's fascinating book.

Article about the highly spiced Indian broth and Usha's upcoming cookbook

A software engineer reflects on the difference in using AI to write code vs prose

New short story by A.L.

Funny short interview with a new scifi/horror writer

The soul of Google leaves to do a new AI-for-research thing with Sanjay and some other top Googlers.