@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-05-31 08:43:00
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-05-29 23:51:39
“I am disappointed in the AI discourse” https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-05-30 21:33:21
Duitse onrust over nationale goudstaven in VS. ‘Het is ons geld, het moet worden teruggebracht’ - NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-06-29 17:42:03
from my link log —
Writing that can change how you think about programming languages.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing/
saved 2025-05-13
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-29 19:31:19
"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-05-29 15:36:16
Duizenden Canadezen worden geëvacueerd wegens bosbranden, noodtoestand uitgeroepen.
Het attributen onderzoek is er nog niet, maar durf er al wel een fles wijn op te zetten dat #klimaatverandering de bosbranden verergert en de kans er op vergroot.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-30 10:19:00
Meta Quest: Warum VR-Spiele immer kürzer werden
Kurze VR-Erlebnisse statt stundenlanger Immersion: Metas "Goldilocks Zone" soll Komfort sichern, offenbart aber auch die Schwächen aktueller Hardware.
https:/…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-05-30 10:08:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-05-30 07:14:00