Category Archives: Links

href weekly | Dec 8 – Dec 14 2024

Bits

“Shouldn’t science have been directed toward exploring how computers could serve citizens, civil society, and the public sphere writ large—not just by automating processes, but by simulating possibilities, by modeling alternate futures? And who, if anyone, was speaking up for these broader interests?” https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/

Sound & Music

Bud and blossom, bud and blossom, bud and bloom and bear,
So we may have plenty of cider all next year;
Hatfuls and in capfuls and in bushel bags and all,
And there’s cider running out of every gutter hole.

Politics & Economics

https://www.noemamag.com/trespassing-for-the-common-good/
He called me a louse and said “Think of the grouse”
Well I thought, but I still couldn’t see
Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout
Couldn’t take both the poor grouse and me

href weekly | Dec 1 – Dec 7 2024

Bits

Are Algorithms Killing Creativity – by Kirby Ferguson https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/opinion/social-media-algorithm-creativity.html

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” https://walzr.com/IMG_0001