Un registro no exhaustivo de algunas de las cosas que he hecho, películas y series que he visto, artículos que he leído y podcasts que he escuchado en 2024. Leo y comparto con frecuencia cosas con las que no estoy totalmente de acuerdo o autores que en general son ideológicamente opuestos a mí: compartir algo aquí no implica que esté de acuerdo con su contenido.
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Enero y febrero
This first 2024 edition is dedicated to VICE. It was fun while it lasted.
Books
- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
- Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau
- Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas by Irene Solà
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos
- Thesis (1996) by Alejandro Amenábar
Videos
- The Murder Game Revolution That Has Gripped China
- Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
- CD / Shutter Speed
Podcasts
- Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze (cw: modern slavery, child labor)
- ‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped (cw: modern slavery, sex trafficking, all kinds of terrible stuff)
- Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
- The end of VICE
- See also Behind the Blog: VICE’s Legacy and the Idea That ‘The Internet Is Forever’ (paywalled)
Computer science & Mathematics
- Floating-Point Determinism
- Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox
- Confidence Intervals
- Universal Quantification and Infinite Conjunction
Politics & society
- Would there still have been global warming under socialism?
- Dating For People With Borderline Personality Disorder
- The Far Out Initiative - Ending Suffering for All Beings
- The business of check cashing
- Leaked sales scheme by Kia Canada reveals customers waiting even longer for new vehicles
- Inside the AI Factory
- qr.blinry.org
- Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- Why it’s impossible to agree on what’s allowed
- How bad are search results? Let’s compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Ethics
Wikifinds
- Safety orange
- Xinjiang Time
- Tokyo subway sarin attack (cw: it’s a terrorist attack, what did you expect)
- Japan Air Lines Flight 351
- Spratly Islands
- E. coli long-term evolution experiment
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Marzo y abril
This second 2024 edition is dedicated to Nathan Fielder. May you give us more TV shows for the years to come.
Books
- La coleur des choses, Martin Panchaud
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Big Boys (2022), Season 1
- Shōgun (2024), Season 1
- Dune: Part Two (2024)
- Perfect Days (2023)
Videos
Podcasts
- Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
- Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
Computer science & Mathematics
- Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior
- How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
- Population- vs. individual-level differences
Politics & society
- No Reservations
- Financial systems take a holiday
- How [GiveWell] works, #3: Our analyses involve judgment calls — EA Forum
- Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?
- The Lure of Divorce (cw: discussion of mental health issues)
- Book excerpt: Death Row Welcomes You, by Steven Hale (cw: murders, both state-sanctioned and not)
- How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen (cw: famine, extreme poverty, despair)
- The human feet that routinely wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest, explained (cw: it’s literally human feet)
Cyberpunk-adjacent
- A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam
- The XZ Utils backdoor is a symptom of a larger problem
- Censorship: How Does It Work?
Privacy & Big Tech
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
- Apple, Meta, and Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
- Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users. Critics Say It’s ‘Terrifying.’
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Mayo y junio
The third 2024 edition is dedicated to Julian Assange.
En español
Books
- MADK (vol. 1) by Ryo Suzuri
- Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Movies, TV shows & documentaries
- Big Boys (2024), Season 2
- Poor Things (2024), rewatch
- The Day of The Beast (2024), rewatch
Videos
- The Six-Country Fight Over These Tiny, Terrible Islands
- The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time
- Why We Can’t Build Better Cities
- How AI Stole the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Emoji
Podcasts
- From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?
- Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
- Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
Computer science & Mathematics
- Moving faster
- List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs
- Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
- Pair Your Compilers At The ABI Café - Faultlore
- A discussion of discussions on AI bias
Politics & society
- No magic money trees
- The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement
Dystopian stuff
- Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration
- Tools for Thinking About Censorship – Ex Urbe
- Documents Show Internal Clash Before U.S. Officials Pushed to Weaken Toddler Formula Rules
- At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights