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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 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 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

“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

“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 “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 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

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