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Not a question, but I only realized yesterday that Tim Reaper isn't the same as Tim Exile.

Yeah, I'm kind of obsessed with it to the point that I'm always trying to find ways of shoehorning it into tangentially related conversations...

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/the-dirtiest-match-in-chess-history-michael-stean-on-karpov-korchnoi-1978

Korchnoi - Karpov was wild:

I went to a thing a couple of years ago where there was a guy who restores old Fairlights exhibiting a couple that he'd been working on. Video here: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/68106/Synthesized-Day-1-Saturday-25th-June-2022/ I think there's even a very brief glimpse of me fucking...

Hack the planet: https://spectrum.ieee.org/slight-street-sign-modifications-can-fool-machine-learning-algorithms#toggle-gdpr

It's just - I could sort of deal with someone who stood up and said that while they understand why people might want tighter gun controls to prevent this sort of tragedy, they don't actually think it'd be effective and if we really want to stop the mass murders of children then blah blah blah. I...

What breaks me is the pro-gun line that anyone calling for gun controls at this point is "exploiting a tragedy to further their political agenda".

I feel like a lot of this has to do with the drive to optimize everything, both for individuals and for businesses. So for individuals, the internet has brought us to a place where everything you do and every decision you take can be broken down and researched and fretted over. Historically...

There was a law in Paris until about ten years ago saying that bakers actually had to okay their periods of holiday with the government so that at least some of the boulangeries in any given neighbourhood would be open on any given day over summer. So I'd say that yeah, the French are pretty...

Really? There's a load of ways that I can invest in the UK - ISAs, investment funds etc. The difference is that I'm handing off the micro of where my money goes to someone who theoretically knows what they're doing, and paying them some sort of commission to do it. I'm entirely willing to...

I mean, I don't see that it's a particularly bad thing that small guys be restricted from entering capital markets, or at least restricted in how they enter capital markets. It's like being restricted from entering the shark tank.

Doesn't it make you feel a bit cheated, though? It's 2022, we were all supposed to be living like that by now, not in smaller and messier facsimiles of the houses we grew up in. Just makes me think of Chtcheglov again: "That’s all over. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist."

I had a dream last night that I was in some sort of junk shop and noticed that they had a load of classic early Metalheadz 12s, but when I looked closer I realized that they were actually CD singles, and I was disappointed. Interpret that, head-shrinkers!

It's been interesting talking to friends who are uni lecturers (including one whose research speciality is actually in teaching methodology) - they seem to feel like the long term impact on HE teaching and assessment could actually be quite positive, basically because universities have been...

I think there's a bit of a generational divide to this, maybe? AIUI it's often younger people who are more keen to get back to the office - if they want to live near the center of a big city anyway for the culture and nightlife and stuff, and hence they live in a tiny room in a shared flat which...

I think I listened to Bitches Brew at an impressionable age, because the sleevenotes are really burnt into my memory.

A sometime Dissensian writes:

"A thief thinks everyone steals", as the saying goes...