“Scientists reflect on the life and work of [Jane Goodall], whose discoveries made them rethink what it means to be human.”
When attention is being appropriated, producers need to weigh the costs and benefits of the transaction. To assess whether the appropriation of attention is net-positive, it’s useful to distinguish between extractive and non-extractive contributions. Extractive contributions are those where the marginal cost of reviewing and merging that contribution is greater than the marginal benefit to the project’s producers. In the case of a code contribution, it might be a pull request that’s too complex or unwieldy to review, given the potential upside
— Nadia Eghbal, Working in Public, via the draft LLVM AI tools policy
Tags: ai-ethics, open-source, vibe-coding, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms, definitions
Korean artist group Shinseungback Kimyonghun made a video of every time they clicked their mouse. It’s mesmerizing.
[This is a vintage post originally from Jan 2014.]
Tags: mesmerizing · Shinseungback Kimyonghun · timeless posts · video
From Haymarket Books, an Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List. “In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list…”
The latest video from Kurzgesagt imagines a scenario in which an advanced civilization called the Noxans can potentially survive the heat death of the universe.
With five hours of the full energy emitted by the Sun, we could power present day humanity for about 10 billion years.
So the Noxans harvest the last stars and build a gigantic complex of batteries around their home star. In principle, this energy could keep them alive for a few hundred trillion years, a long time but not even close to forever.
So now the hard part of the plan begins. The Noxans need to change the nature of life itself.
Tags: Kurzgesagt · physics · science · video
uni-watch.com/2025/09/24/americas-pants-a-special-investigation-into-the-dallas-cowboys-pants/
This exemplary deep dive from Don Patterson at Uni Watch is a nice capper to the Cowboys’ 40-40 victory over the Green Bay Packers Sunday night.
Anil Dash on Mariah Carey’s unreleased “Hole-inspired grunge album” called Someone’s Ugly Daughter, recorded in the mid-90s with “an album cover featuring a dead cockroach on the front”.
