[LaughingGoat]

Who could know, in November 2014, that this phrase uttered ironically, would in 2022 (and 2023) become true, after Microsoft bought Github:

“You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.”

Saddest day indeed, maybe for more than just system programmers.

[bitwize]

"There will be rich debates about the socioeconomic implications of Helvetica Light, and at some point, you will have to decide whether serifs are daring statements of modernity, or tools of hegemonic oppression that implicitly support feudalism and illiteracy."

The State Department has banned the use of Times New Roman and mandated Calibri in its stead, because serifed fonts are oppressive to people with reading or vision problems.

Mickens is a Goddamned prophet.

[KRAKRISMOTT]

A large language model running on x86 absolutely can. Well, maybe not by osmosis, but OCR is very much a thing.