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Bits

87% Missing: The Disappearance of Classic Video Games https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

To further the understanding of training data, the Knowing Machines Project developed see:set, an investigative tool for examining the training datasets for via: @maryakem https://knowingmachines.org/publications/9_ways_to_see_a_dataset

Great TV build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxFdsAkG80

Sound & Music

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Arts

Two years in the making, “Takrar” spotlights the mélange of Islamic, Ottoman, Greek, and Byzantine influences throughout Istanbul https://vimeo.com/839085383

Politics & Economics

And still, it got warmer and warmer. https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-generations-climate-rebellion/

The median square footage of an American house built in the nineteen-sixties was fifteen hundred square feet, compared with about twenty-two hundred today—and the earlier model was home to more people. Before 1972, more than half of Americans had never taken a plane trip, much less more than one a year. https://archive.ph/RasyG

He chose the name of the Deuter album, and in four days he sold five thousand units of Ecstasy. https://archive.ph/g0uTi

“I was speechless. We’ve lost almost 30 percent of an entire class of organisms in less than the span of a human lifetime, and we didn’t know it.” https://nautil.us/a-third-of-north-americas-birds-have-vanished-340007/

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There ought to be exhibitions on Myst and Surrealism; The Sims and interior design; Red Dead Redemption, Albert Bierstadt, and the American West. https://archive.ph/2FGaB

Exploring the tech behind concert led wristbands https://hackaday.com/2023/07/01/exploring-the-tech-behind-concert-led-wristbands/

Enslaved machine learning processes aren’t going to rise up in anger and overturn us, any more (or any less) than markets, bureaucracy and democracy have already. Such minatory fantasies tell us more about their authors than the real problems of the world we live in. https://crookedtimber.org/2023/07/03/shoggoths-amongst-us/

Tiny is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt https://tinyawards.net/

The programmed monopolization of possibilities disables human agency by robbing it of any alternative competency. https://www.noemamag.com/post-anthropocene-humanism/

PhD Simulator https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

Politics & Economics

Modern propaganda does not try to convert people to a coherent ideology or make them believe that there is a utopia behind the walls of some foreign dictatorship. Instead, it makes people enraged, confused and depressed, and conclude that no truths can be known. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/06/27/Education-Birth-Democracy-Will-Protect-It/

What if there is no crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? https://btlbooks.com/book/the-tenant-class

B.C.’s largest wildfire on record now eclipses the entire area of Prince Edward Island https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/donnie-creek-wildfire-aftermath-1.6892294

Gap between rich and poor widens at fastest pace on record https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230704/dq230704a-eng.htm

The question is: what kind of agriculture do Canadians want? Growing land inequality undermines the social, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture. Progressive agrarian and food movements propose a different future — one based on food sovereignty. This would entail equitable access to land for farmers, sustainable livelihoods and valuing farmland for its social and ecological worth, as well as its productive value. https://thenarwhal.ca/prairies-farming-investors/

This kind of policy by Elsevier is not just aimed at Design Studies. Elsevier is already subject to various academic boycotts and editor walkouts around the world. https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal

Arguably, the craziest faction in right now isn’t red-hatted blue-collar guys in diners, it’s technology billionaires living in huge mansions and flying around on private jets. At one level it’s quite funny. Unfortunately, however, these people have enough money to do serious damage. https://archive.li/Idv9F