Tasty links

• The wonders of MAXIS is a short article about how wonderful the early days of the game developer MAXIS (the sims, sim city, …).
• In case you are searching for interesting movies look at „the 50 most underappreciated movies of the 21st century“.
• Interesting take on contemporary environmentalism.
• Economists as reporters is very inspirational (albeit I do not understand anything about Economics). It reminds me of Social Science as Moral Theology.
• I know nothing about speedskating, but here is a technical analysis of Sander Eitrem’s run under 6:00.00 (the first man who did so).
• The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs. I guess this is part 1. Looking forward to see how it continues.

video

• Great interview with Scott E. Page about his “Model Thinker” book.
• A soft-spoken overview of Elisha Zepeda regarding his process for designing book/book covers.
• Fiona Hill on a podcast talking about Europe and a post-America world
• Technology Connections got to be one of the best tech channels on youtube. Here is his recent video about renewable energy. Watch it.
• Creating Pentiment: Video game designer Joash Sawyer talks about the genesis of Pentiment.

tasting notes

• Tabor Turm has an excellent menu.
• Azuma was very good. The pigeon was phenomenal.
• Station 183 has the best burgers I know in Linz.