Chris @chris@fosstodon.org

TheRobotFactory/EightBit-Atari-Fonts

Fonts generated from original bitmaps from Atari 8bit computers

https://github.com/TheRobotFactory/EightBit-Atari-Fonts

Bionic Reading

https://bionic-reading.com/

Python is slow, but it's about to get faster

https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-is-slow-but-its-about-to-get-faster/

Avoiding Source Code Spoofing

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22007-avoiding-spoof.pdf

MIT Technology Review: The Computing issue

https://www.technologyreview.com/magazines/the-computing-issue/

Software at Scale 34 - Faster Python with Guido van Rossum https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-34-faster-python

GitHub - wanderingstan/Confusables: Simple library for matching a string to another string that is same but has letters that only *look* the same as original string https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables

What Is the Sound of Thought? https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-sound-of-thought/

Social media and the neuroscience of predictive processing – Mark Miller & Ben White | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/social-media-and-the-neuroscience-of-predictive-processing

Artificial intelligence research may have hit a dead end https://www.salon.com/2021/04/30/why-artificial-intelligence-research-might-be-going-down-a-dead-end/

Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter

https://www.fastcompany.com/90635203/ibm-chinese-typewriter-lois-lew

🎧 Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse — Making Sense with Sam Harris https://overcast.fm/+KhqFD0mv0

The Enclosure of the Public Interest Internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/enclosure-public-interest-internet

The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-computers-are-getting-better-at-writing

Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech https://www.wired.co.uk/article/maori-language-tech

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations - Datawrapper Blog https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/

🎧 Source Code: A huge win for the right-to-repair movement (29m)

https://castro.fm/episode/HxhGRX

Which color scale to use when visualizing data

https://blog.datawrapper.de/which-color-scale-to-use-in-data-vis/

How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actually-consume