What I saw on the web on 2022.6.3
Jun. 4th, 2022 05:55 am- My new favorite thing is #dalle messing up corporate logos.
by Janelle Shane
https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1531624303770279937
some excellent mangles here
via boing - Are you tired of your neck effecting your thumb position playing? Well now there’s an option for you!
by /u/Halflings1335
https://i.redd.it/tnhe3y37fb391.jpg
this is horrible. and great.
via reddit - You Do the Calculus: We’ll Do the Cat Food
by Jerry Farlow
https://tenreasonsfornotnamingyourcatcalculus.pressbooks.com/chapter/you-do-the-calculus-well-do-the-cat-food/
in case you're wondering why companies don't put their products in optimal cans (hint: define "optimal")
via CLP1 - The Story of the Internet and How it Broke Bad: A Call For Public-Interest Technologists
by Bruce Schneier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMsPUKizT3k
and a suggestion for how to start fixing things
via Bruce's blog - Your Book Review: The Castrato
by someone who is not Scott Alexander
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-castrato
and now i know more about that topic than i did. (and small editorial comment: "University of Indiana" in the first paragraph should be "Indiana University"
via rss - Alberta government memos on school masking 'damning,' union leader says
by Jennifer Lee
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-government-mask-mandates-1.6477208
that's pretty alarming, and not very surprising
via rss