Oktober 2021 Archiv

Stealman.

  • 2021-10-31

He wears a cycling outfit under his clothes. He gets the money, flees the bank, and heads to a secluded spot about a block away from the bank. He takes off the robbery clothes and puts them in a bag, along with the money, and adds cycling shoes, a helmet and glasses to his outfit, and he heads out on his orange Steelman bicycle.

The cycling outfit is described as a black bike helmet, amber colored Smith sunglasses, a white/red/and blue or black long sleeve cycling jersey and long pants. He wears Adidas cycling shoes. His bike had blue Look pedals, a pump, and two water bottles.

This is the bike he ditched on March 1st. A 1996 vintage orange Steelman Stage Race 56cm.

archive.org snapshot of http://steelmancycles.com/WANTED.html from 2 April 2002

Metafail.

  • 2021-10-30

Denn wer will ein Metaverse, das von einem Unternehmen verwaltet wird, das schon daran scheitert, ein zweidimensionales soziales Netzwerk verantwortungsbewusst zu gestalten?

In der Immersion eines Metaverse potenziert sich der Schaden, den Facebook heute schon anrichtet

Eva Wolfangel: Veto, Meta!

Cut down the noise.

  • 2021-10-29

Identifying complexity is hard.

Carbon Community.

  • 2021-10-28

I must confess that the extent of my conference participation has shrunk over the past year and a half, rather than expanded. Too much choice.

[...]

The very idea that each paper publication must involve conference travel is not morally acceptable anymore.

Moshe Vardi: The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences https://doi.org/10.1145/3488554

Geht doch.

  • 2021-10-27

We trekken ons terug uit beleggingen in producenten van fossiele brandstoffen (olie, gas en kolen). Dit heeft het bestuur van ABP besloten na onlangs verschenen klimaatrapporten. Voor het besluit is veel steun. Veel deelnemers en werkgevers wilden al langer dat we zouden stoppen met beleggen in fossiele brandstoffen.

ABP stopt met beleggen in fossiele brandstoffen