Bits

“Browse around the InfiniteHD to see what using a Mac in the mid 1990s was like” #emulation https://macos9.app/

“Stable Attribution’s algorithm decodes an image generated by a model into the most similar examples from the data that the model was trained with. Usually, the image the model creates doesn’t exist in its training data – it’s new – but because of the training process, the most influential images are the most visually similar ones, especially in the details.” #generative #attribution https://www.stableattribution.com/

“If users can’t access the universal login page, Z-Library says they can log in through TOR or I2P and get their personal clearnet domains there.” #libraries https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-returns-on-the-clearnet-in-full-hydra-mode-230213/

JupyterLab Desktop is the cross-platform desktop application for #jupyter #python https://blog.jupyter.org/introducing-the-new-jupyterlab-desktop-bca1982bdb23

Sound & Music

The latest #yolatengo is outstanding https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/yo-la-tengo-discography

“Consumers need to be able to identify quality, learn to take care of what they own, and advocate for regulations and legislation wherever #righttorepair doesn’t yet exist.” https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23529587/consumer-goods-quality-fast-fashion-technology

An impressive directory of the #bbc In Our Time radio series https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/

Comics

“The point is to give you an emotional barometer of how you feel when presented with new ideas.” #comics https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Bits

Use #ai #ml to summarize content on the web https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum – example: 9000+ word article on Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics&expand=1

“video to video” #generative #video https://runwayml.com/

“By using digital surveillance to enforce rules, we focus our attention on an apparent order that allows us to ignore the real problems in the industry, as well as their deeper economic, social, and political causes.” https://archive.ph/I23xB

Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images. #generative #image mg2prompt.io/

Starting in with this game tonight .. Not For Broadcast – “a satirical propaganda simulator with edgy humor, evolving mechanics, and dystopian worldbuilding for mature players.” #seriousgames https://screenrant.com/not-broadcast-game-review/

Music & Sound

“a system which generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, potentially offering musicians and non-musicians alike an intuitive new way to create music featuring their own voice.” #generative #music https://storage.googleapis.com/sing-song/index.html

Spirit of Hamlet is a long distance collaboration of four absolute history-making juggernauts: Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Scotty Irving (Clang Quartet), and highly-acclaimed songwriter/producer Benjy Johnson. https://spiritofhamlet.bandcamp.com/album/northwest-of-hamuretto

Comics

not only as workers who powered and then challenged global capitalism, but as thinkers and doers who saw that another world was possible” #graphicnovel #comics https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2023/01/26/pirates-sailors-egalitarian-societies

#coursepackpreneur #oer https://www.businessinsider.com/profit-selling-nursing-school-study-sheets-etsy-tiktok-2023-1

Humor

This accurately represents my home heating practices https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-to-turn-your-heat-on-in-new-england-a-decision-guide

Teaching & Learning

“Rather than upping the surveillance-and-detection stakes with tools that are, at best, spotty and unreliable, teachers can talk with students reflectively about what’s at stake with #ai generated text.” https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/chat-gpt-cheating-college-ai-detection.html

Politics & Economics

“If the patient gets worse, you’re not bleeding them enough. If they get better, the bloodletting clearly saved them. If they die, well, some diseases are simply incurable.” #inflation https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/04/if-i-was-a-horse/#friedman-was-a-dolt