Bits
“I’m old enough to remember when the Internet wasn’t a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.” https://nitter.net/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040
like StumbleUpon for Google StreetView https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/
“Let’s just manage visible activity. It’s this compromise that held the pieces together in an imperfect way, and then in the last 20 years, this centrifuge of digital-accelerated work blew it apart. The compromise is now failing.” https://archive.ph/g7ZVN
self-hosted software designed to help streamline your workflows by integrating the different services you use. #api https://automatisch.io/
a game in which you guess the dates of some photos #seriousgames https://www.chronophoto.app/
“What can #ai reveal about a 3000-year-old game? What can it teach us about humanity?” https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y
Sound & Music
“a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions” https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
One #foss music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile https://helio.fm/
“We’re living in an age
Where limitations are forgotten
The outer edges move and dazzle us
But the core is something rotten
And we’re standing on the precipice
Of prejudice and fear
We trust science just as long
As it tells us what we want to hear”
https://drivebytruckers.bandcamp.com/track/what-it-means
@WFMU #wfmu tribute to Jerry Blavat https://archive.ph/opCuL https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/124040
Teaching & Learning
“Our institutions have made a series of choices — including getting in bed with Microsoft and allowing all kinds of AI into our institutions in the first place — that make extracting ourselves from the #chatgpt ecosystem pretty unlikely.” https://digitaldetox.trubox.ca/breaking-what-was-already-broken-ai-and-writing-assignments/
“…if there is one good thing coming from the #chatGPT debate is becoming aware of the need to constantly reassess what is uniquely human. Testing and critically assessing new tools regularly (instead of banning them) will help us figure out how the limits of that are being stretched and enable us to adjust our role as educators and our students’ role accordingly.” https://educationalist.substack.com/p/lets-get-off-the-fear-carousel
Politics & Economics
Apparently #doomsday clock high water mark was 17-minutes to midnight in 1991 https://thebulletin.org/files/1991%20Clock%20Statement.pdf
“Imagine the surprise of the elders as they discover that some of the kids don’t want to live in the world they built.” #china https://www.noemamag.com/chinas-last-generation/
“Godfather, Saudi-style” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/mbs-v-mbn-the-bitter-power-struggle-between-rival-saudi-princes .. related https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlmntry-bndrs/20201201/014/index-en.aspx