Bits

Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share. Print, Cut, Score, Fold and Glue. http://rockybergen.com/papercraft

Give the drummer some: as #AI drum machines embrace humanising imperfections, what does this mean for ‘real’ drummers and the soul of music? https://aeon.co/essays/what-drum-machines-can-teach-us-about-artificial-intelligence

Just when you think this story couldn’t get worse #cybersecurity https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastpass-hackers-infected-employees-home-computer-and-stole-corporate-vault/

“The Camera-Shy Hoodie is a DIY adversarial garment designed to give the user the option to anonymize themselves within the recording of a night vision security camera.” https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie

#cybersecurity “as soon as the machines start doing something more interesting than just providing you plain text, the black hats will take notice, and someone will have to figure out defense.” https://hackaday.com/2023/03/04/chatgpt-bing-and-the-upcoming-security-apocalypse/

Arts

#art “finding new ways to repurpose discarded antique vessels and giving them new life by building miniature vignettes using vintage clocks, cameras, radios, volt meters, airplane salvage, old toys, and various other vintage and antique vessels.” https://www.clevermisterchristmas.com/gallery

Comics

via @eff #comics “From the days of chattel slavery until the modern Black Lives Matter movement, Black communities have developed innovative ways to communicate to fight back against oppression.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/coded-resistance-comic

Why I Am An Anarchist #comics https://archive.org/details/why-anarchist-jules-leslie-webb/mode/2up

Politics & Economics

“Semi-pro band roadies could likely install themselves as Supreme Ruler inside a month.” https://theline.substack.com/p/matt-gurney-how-the-convoy-almost

Bits

The systems can “understand” only specific situations they have been exposed to in the past and are unable to generalize in a way that humans find easy. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/

we should be able to recognize ourselves in our new machine mirrors, but instead, it seems like more than a few people are convinced they’ve spotted another form of life. https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test

This #synth Does Not Exist https://thissynthdoesnotexist.com/?id=62

The Social Media Lab’s Fact Check Assistant is an AI-powered bot for simple fact checking. It was created as a proof of concept for the Social Media Lab’s 2023 Canadian #AI #Misinformation Hackathon. https://factcheckassistant.socialmedialab.ca/

… focusing on how people use #AI in class rather than whether they use it will result in better learning outcomes, happier students, and graduates who are better prepared for a world while AI is likely to be ubiquitous. https://archive.ph/HGAAD

Politics & Economics

“Water is regulated. Air quality is regulated. The banks are regulated, our jobs are regulated. Trains, cars, buses. Food standards are regulated. Why is the quality and cost of our homes just run by a load of lads who buy their jeans at Next?” #housing https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zadk/everything-ive-learnt-about-london-renting