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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme · suricrasia.online · Computers › Educational resources
An "iceberg" of interesting, infuriating and thought-provoking stories about the Internet, software and other related things.
Tags: software, internet, culture, meme
How To Maintain Your Penis' Function On Feminizing HRT · stainedglasswoman.substack.com · LGBTQ+ › Transgender
As such, “how do I keep my penis from atrophying?” is probably the single most frequent medical question I see new-in-transition transfems asking the community at large, and answers are often riddled with misinformation. This guide exists to dispel common myths and to give concrete, practical guidelines, based in science, for how to maintain penile function and size indefinitely while on feminizing HRT.
Tags: penis, hrt, trans, care, healthcare, hormones, estrogen
Programming Sucks · www.stilldrinking.org · Internet › Blogging
A blog post written in 2014 about how programming feels.
Tags: programming, software, blogging, internet
The Library of Babel · libraryofbabel.info · Arts & Design › Digital Experimental
The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on.
Tags: babel, borges, art, internet, cult, culture
The X Y Problem · xyproblem.info · Computers › Educational resources
The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.
Tags: educational, problem-solving, psychology
Everything Is Broken · medium.com · Computers › Educational resources
A 2014 essay by Quin Norton on the state of software and hardware. It is timeless.
Tags: reading, essay, blog, medium, software, security, computers
The Colonization of Confidence · sightlessscribbles.com · Reading & Literature › Short Stories
A short story about a writing club that is confronted with the rising use of generative AI based on large language models. The story explores the effect that this technology has on writers. The story follows an arc where writers grapple with that writing means to them.
Tags: writing, fiction, short-story, llm, ai, micro-fiction
The Internet Shutdown Game · shutdowngame.apc.org · Computers › Educational resources
We have created this game instructions with the aim of helping to organise an engaging and informative training activity that sheds light on the various methods of internet shutdowns and ways to counteract them.
Tags: internet, shutdown, censorship, surveillance
How the Internet Really Works · catnip.article19.org · Computers › Educational resources
An Illustrated Guide to protocols, privacy, censorship, and governance
Tags: protocols, privacy, censorship, surveillance, governance, internet
Movies, Books & Podcasts About Surveillance · activistchecklist.org · Computers › Educational resources
Tags: movies, books, postcasts, surveillance
MIT AI Incident Tracker · airisk.mit.edu · Computers › Educational resources
You can explore different views of the database and classification in the project. For example, you can see all AI incidents classified using taxonomies from the MIT Risk Repository, the type of harm, and individual records in the AI Incident Database.
Tags: AI, incident, security, software
