Subpixel Text Encoding
posted August 14, 2024 #
Very nerdy use of monitor subpixels. Heartily approved.
“That’s actually the cool thing about Silicon Valley,” Blania told the students. “You’re able to raise a quarter of a billion dollars with a crazy idea that, if it works, will change everything, and, if it doesn’t work, at least it was worth a try.”It actually turns my stomach to think about how much VC money is spent on ideas like this instead of real world problems. The amount of ego involved is astounding to say the least.
By the way, at the end of the game you choose to launch the arcologies into space. You abandon the metropolis that you have spent hundreds of hours balancing and maintaining. In SimCity 2000, the apex of the metropolis is its death. Cue the accelerationists. Cue Tacitus by way of Gibbon. We are all, in the end, some simulacrum of the bad emperors.That's a lot to digest but it could not be more pertinent here in 2024 as we see the rise of Effective accelerationism, aka e/acc, the movement that aspires to propel technology at all costs, guard rails be damned.
...a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion, and even hallucinations, allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty.The name goes all the way back to 1817 when French writer Stendhal was overcome by seeing works of "painted frescoes and the tombs of Machiavelli, Galileo, and Michelagelo." Similarly, Lisztomania is the name for the intense crowd reactions at Franz Liszt concerts in the 1840s in which the audience would become overwhelmed with hysteria (and a helluva Phoenix song).