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    A Lesson in Programming

    Over at Bill Seymour’s, I made the mistake of getting into the topic of comparative programming languages. Ow. My bad!

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 1, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 21 Comments

    I Am Not Sure How I Missed This

    This is exactly how I imagine imperialism and “The Great Game” worked. A bunch of people sitting around with sharpies drawing lines on maps.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 30, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 14 Comments

    Ubu Roy

    I was in high school when my sweetheart, Rachel, discovered Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roy [King Ubu] and started reading big chunks of it out loud to me, as we walked to and from school.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 18, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 27 Comments

    Stable Audio

    Right now, the popularity/interest in stable audio is so high that you basically can’t get to it unless you’re a journalist who has a public relations person making calls for you.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 17, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me, We are Fucked
    • 9 Comments

    Blah blah blah

    Yoram Bauman translates the basic principles of economics.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 17, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 12 Comments

    IANAL, But

    I’ve been following the tribulations (and am looking forward to the trials) of Donald Trump. It’s fascinating, to me, the level of stupidity and bad lawyering that the republican fascist party has managed to scrape together.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 14, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me, Totalitarianism, TrumpUS
    • 20 Comments

    Simply Delightful

    I’m listening to the audiobook version of Ian Toll’s Pacific Crucible, which is about the naval war in the Pacific, WW2. [wc]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 7, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 1 Comment

    On the Affirmative Defense

    Obviously I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a guy who reads a lot of stuff. So, I’d like to clarify a few small points as I understand them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 6, 2023
    • Philosophy, Politics, Propaganda, Things That Delight Me
    • 26 Comments

    Get Your Indictment Here

    I feel that listening to a semi-dramatic reading of a Trump indictment gives me a mental distance that allows me to appreciate the language and the argument as I hear it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 3, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 5 Comments

    More AI Remixing

    [Content warning: pixels representing paint representing breasts]

    My favorite thing about AI art is that the results are throw-aways. You are not asking a real artist to pour weeks of work and years of skill into something that is, basically, a joke.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 21, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
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