Bits
Many things can be done by tools that write for you, but they won’t help you learn to think or understand a problem with deep fluency. And you need deep fluency to solve hard problems. https://fs.blog/why-write/
#ai #LLaMA there are a ton of very real ways in which this technology can be used for harm.
Just a few:
* Generating spam
* Automated romance scams
* Trolling and hate speech
* Fake news and disinformation
* Automated radicalization (I worry about this one a lot)
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/
“Time and Clocks Are Children’s Things and Hold No Sway Over Me in the Realm of the Shadow Fortress” https://archive.ph/olYD4
Fatalism becomes the handmaiden of inevitability, and inevitability becomes the justification for acceleration. #ai https://archive.ph/1vE5F
a five-week one-credit “mini-course” on scraping data from the web. The course is intended for researchers in the social sciences and humanities with computational instincts but limited or no prior programming experience. https://github.com/CU-ITSS/Web-Data-Scraping-S2023
Sound & Music
A beautiful cover from Elisapie youtu.be/g7BSjmxg9DY
A simple online tool to generate free synthesized kick drum/bass drum sounds. https://muted.io/kick/
This is small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial mechanism, attribution promoting, community #radio for the #fediverse https://radiofreefedi.net/
an upcoming open-source hardware sampler inspired by childhood devices such as the Casio SK-1 https://chompiclub.com/
Daisy is an embedded platform for music. It features everything you need for creating high fidelity audio hardware devices. Just plug in a USB cable and start making sound! Programming the Daisy is a breeze with support for a number of languages including C++, Arduino, and Max/MSP Gen~. https://www.electro-smith.com
Creating #gifs for the channels between channels .. she used a Goldbeam portable CRT, soldered the tuning potentiometer to the ESP32, and set up 10 different GIFs to act as “channels” with space in between. https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/creating-gifs-for-the-channels-between-channels/
Politics & Economics
“Seeds are the new antiques.” https://archive.ph/65Lur
Remember that those choices are not inevitable. The decision to make #housing the primary driver of intergenerational wealth transfer is both recent and very, very stupid ..” #svb https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout
With our #union we will have a voice in our working conditions and the power to hold #bandcamp accountable to the independent artists and labels who use it—most of whom are workers just like us, and for whom #bandcamp provides vital income to help sustain their creative projects. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PGyTD7qYPeOQ0FwOXtN8ymCvYBiQfMHl/view?usp=sharing