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Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

[Republication, pour archivage, d’un article initialement paru le 13 Novembre 2024 dans AOC.Media. La publication originale de cet article a donné lieu à rémunération de son auteur – moi] L'arrivée de ChatGPT et des autres artefacts génératifs en 2022, est une révolution semblable à cell

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

"Qu’est-ce qu’un beau code ?" Voilà une question qui obsède un rien Xavier de La Porte. Mais peut-être a-t-il trouvé la réponse dans une thèse sur l’esthétique du code rédigé par un étudiant nommé Pierre Depaz. Vous le saurez à la fin de ce podcast.

Voir l’article pour en savoir plus.

An interactive visualization system designed to help non-experts learn about Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

The aesthetics of source code is a PhD thesis on the role that formal presentation plays in machine languages.

In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" —  is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.

The most potent tools for fighting injustice are the ones already in your hands.

Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

[Article initialement rédigé en Décembre 2023. Il a ensuite failli devenir un petit chapitre de mon dernier bad seller dont il est toujours possible de faire un best-seller ;-) Et puis finalement non. Mais aujourd'hui il le complète utilement sur l'un des aspects que je ne traite pas ou très peu dan

Une émission qui part à la recherche du sujet révolutionnaire. On vous emmène avec nous dans ce premier épisode où on se demandera quelle est la (...)

Depuis plus de 20 ans j’étais obsédé par l’idée de rédiger un livre essai-récit oulipien si fastidieux à écrire que je ne l’aurais jamais…

OuLiPo emphasizes systematic, self-restricting methods of creating texts. Sponsored by Shaft Enterprises. Create your own Oulipo Poems, Stories and Novels.

Analyses et témoignages sur la transmisogynie et la culture du viol. Brochure à télécharger en pdf dans cet article.

Yow it's been a while since I've posted here, but I just finished a new piece about Project 2025! It wound up being about Project 2025, our wider political climate, our actual climate, dam failures in China in the 1960s. . . . It's below. Page references to Mandate to Leadership (https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf) are given in

We’re constantly being assailed with new releases of hot content — but how much of it is worth the time?

The Linux creator is interested in AI, but the hype means he "basically ignores" it.

Slop is low-quality media—including writing and images—made using generative artificial intelligence technology. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a derogatory connotation akin to "spam".

Where did the common image of the socially-awkward, white, male programmer come from?

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.