Victor Loux — bookmarks

Whole Earth Index

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002.

How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world

amazon.co.uk/How-Infrastructure-Works-Transforming-changing/dp/1911709542/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

The applause clause: why are standing ovations suddenly obligatory? | Theatre | The Guardian

theguardian.com/stage/2023/oct/17/the-applause-clause-why-are-standing-ovations-suddenly-obligatory

Once the ultimate mark of respect for actors, every theatre performance now seems to end with the audience rising to their feet and clapping wildly

my new manager is someone I slept with years ago ... and he doesn't know we have a child

askamanager.org/2023/10/my-new-manager-is-someone-i-slept-with-years-ago-and-he-doesnt-know-we-have-a-child.html

A reader writes: The backstory: I went back to university in my late 20s to do my PhD, and shared an office with a few other students for many years. One

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1 year ago

What Was the TED Talk?

thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/

“TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. It is a seemingly endless index of stories about the future – the future of science, the future of the environment, the future of work, the future of love and sex, the future of what it means to be human – that never materialized. ... If the research wasn’t entertaining or moving, it was seen as somehow less valuable. TED’s influence on intellectual culture was ‘taking something with value and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing’, Bratton said. ‘This is not the solution to our most frightening problems – rather, this is one of our most frightening problems.’”

Antidepressants or Tolkien character?

antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh/

Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database.

blog.xot.nl/2023/10/11/tainting-the-csam-client-side-scanning-database/index.html

South Pole Signage

brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage

Please close doors quietly!

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)

tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

✨every app that adds AI looks like this✨

botharetrue.substack.com/p/every-app-that-adds-ai-looks-like

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1 year ago

Recursive Recipes | Make food from scratch

recursiverecipes.schollz.com/

Each recipe has ingredients which is also a recipe, follow them to make your food from scratch!

How Did Roasting Vegetables Become a Thing?

slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/roasting-vegetables-history-when-did-this-technique-overtake-boiling.html

Chances are good that at whatever holiday feast you attend this year, one dish will include vegetables that have been simply, gloriously roasted. They...