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This started as a final paper for a course on technology and ethics. I've adapted it lightly for the blog. When an AI system denies someone a loan or generates medical advice that influences a doctor's decision, someone bears...
A book only available in Dutch, that will most likely not be translated any time soon. The title means 'For Flanders, the people and the Führer'. It's a study about the motives and worldview of people who collaborated during WWII in...
Roger Babson had a problem. His family thought he was crazy or felonious or both. He had started to carve mottoes in to the boulders which lay in the fields near the long abandoned settlement of Dogtown close to his home in Gloucester,...
On my gaming PC Windows complained that C:\ had only 10GB of free space left. Time to free up some space! In WindowsXP times I used a separate Program called GetFolderSize for this, but nowadays with PowerShell I was like: "Hey, I bet I...
Nice Boat Sick With a propulsive beat and grungy bass guitar, Nice Boat’s new single subverts typical genre categorisation. With a minimal sound that is constructed around a small number of components, Sick reminds me of Death From Above...
Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. I’m tired of this program, or at least the work we’ve been doing. What might be more interesting? Definitely contains bees. A huge fraction of any program, even just pretend ones like our...
Currently re-engaging with bovines in the writing of 'The Book'... First, there's remembering that our babies have the same gestation period as cows. Curious. That got me 'chewing the cud'. Which got me wondering if - metaphorically -...
What a pathetic state to be in, to want someone. To need someone. To need warmth. To need love. I write love as though I am writing a foreign word, a foreign curse, like a language I am trying to learn while knowing I can never become...
This blog writes that the author is fighting with AI to produce the blog correctly.I dictate it. I put it in AI. I yell at AI to not change it, just clean it up. Then it doesn’t do it. Then I yell at it. And eventually we get to what...
16:27 - My brain has been on overdrive this past week (thinking/worrying about my future) and I forget that can take a toll physically. Saving my energy for our D&D sesh later.
Last winter, I wrote about prefiguration: building the future you want within the shell of existing structures. Rather than focusing solely on tearing down systems you don’t like or pointing out what’s wrong with how things are,...
The past few days I read two titles by Kurt Vonnegut, because they were mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton that I read last month. The protagonist in Walton’s book, set in 1979/1980, is an avid reader, also of science fiction and...
Today I learned about the Trivial File Transfer Protocol, and the matching tftp command. It’s like FTP, but much more simple, less secure, uses less memory, and is sometimes used in initial bootloading on low memory devices. It isn’t...
Kind of. I’m meeting a friend I haven’t seen in two years. When we met in 2024 he was very kind and took me out in dates. We hadn’t spoken for a while but I decided to reach out and spontaneously we’ve decided to meet in a couple of...