severak
5.6.2026 01:10:01
Life Is Life: The Strange World Of Laibach, Narrated By Laibach
Laibach are one of the most misunderstood groups going, with their uniforms and martial music wearily misinterpreted. Here, they guide Luke Turner through significant moments in their 30 years of subversion, from being banned in Slovenia, providing grist to Žižek's seditious mill and provoking phonecalls from Slobodan Milošević to this year's Tate Modern triumph
severak
5.6.2026 00:36:02
The Yugoslav Psy-Op That may have Given us Laibach… and Inspired Rammstein
A Bosnian satirist Dr. Nele Karajlić recently claimed that the entire Yugo rock scene of the 1980s was created by the socialist State; but what if he isn't joking? A report by Robert Rigny
severak
15.5.2026 16:57:52
Recenze: Zemský ráj to na pohled - 70% + Revoluční retro
Následují retro plky, které vlastně s filmem nesouvisí, ale rád bych je uchoval pro příští generace:
severak
5.5.2026 13:34:33
How Many Children Learned Mathematics From Kiselev’s Textbooks?
A demographic estimate, with sources, of the readership of A.P. Kiselev’s textbooks across Russian and Soviet education — and a look at why one textbook held its place for so long.
severak
29.4.2026 10:38:24
Withnail's Coat & I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
severak
16.4.2026 16:33:04
Masayoshi Takanaka And The Great City Pop Awakening
The legendary Japanese virtuoso reflects on his unexpected global resurgence and life as an internet icon...
severak
8.4.2026 21:38:50
The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.
severak
10.3.2026 12:00:04
Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS
VisiCalc started it, but 1-2-3 finished it. "It" being the discussion of what a spreadsheet can be, and also VisiCalc itself.
severak
18.11.2025 10:48:22
Idol kluků a učitel: Kdo byl neznámý muž v teplákovce, který mluvil na Letné
severak
18.9.2025 16:29:27
Zažíváme společenskou změnu, v níž vítězí totalita? - Visegradský jezdec 🏇
from https://www.visegradsky-jezdec.cz/zazivame-spolecenskou-zmenu-v-niz-vitezi-totalita/
severak
12.8.2025 16:18:10
Is David Woodard's Life His Art?
from https://www.ocweekly.com/is-david-woodards-life-his-art-6393040/
severak
22.7.2025 09:59:13
Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar" · openai/whisper · Discussion #2608
If you generate complete silence in a wav file and run whisper on it, it will always hallucinate the same thing ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anullsrc=r=44100:cl=stereo -t 30 silence.wav whisper ./silence.wav...
severak
22.7.2025 09:57:49
Who is Nicolai Winther?
Who is Nicolai Winther? — and why does OpenAIs Whisper impersonate him when transcribing Norwegian? Does he exist, or is he merely a…
severak
16.7.2025 11:40:47
10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what “significant in history” means. So let’s talk about some “mostly dead” languages and why they matter so much.
severak
9.6.2025 17:15:01
Inside the AI Factory
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
severak
3.6.2025 15:40:21
GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape
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