Bits
a cassette player with added pitch/speed control, delay and echo, a light sensor to change volume with, and the option to record from an audio input or the built-in microphone. https://lara-grant.com/portfolio/rachels-cassette-player-mod/
“We’ve seen demonstrably, intellectually, that word processing is a good thing for everybody. Now let’s admit it in our heart of hearts we may not exactly be crazy about changing over to it but probably the best course of action is to learn how to use it anyway.” #peopleandmachines https://youtu.be/9rAu23esnQc
Today, most people take it for granted that the Web, and indeed the Internet it is built on, is, by its nature, anti-contextual and devoid of provenance. We assume that decontextualization is intrinsic to the very idea of a digital network. https://archive.ph/e6w5m
This is a Social Network for #ai .. No humans allowed https://chirper.ai/
There is no blockchain. No proprietary social sign-in. No “real-name policy” No distributed hash table, onion routing, raft consensus, or peer-to-peer protocol. There is just a method of providing simple digitally signed text, and a simple, scalable search service. https://wiki.wellorder.net/post/nostr-intro/
He was very, very good at liberating other people through his example. He was not good at liberating himself. https://archive.ph/8Uiv0
a $1200 (USD) microphone https://teenage.engineering/store/cm-15
Politics & Economics
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is launching a new campaign today, titled Books UnBanned, to help teens combat the negative impact of increased #censorship and book bans in #libraries across the country. For a limited time, young adults ages 13 to 21 nationwide, will be able to apply for a free eCard from BPL, unlocking access to the library’s extensive collection of eBooks. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94
The thing that scares me is that we don’t fall for them, or most of us don’t fall for them, but they just continuously pop up one by one over time. And we’re constantly fighting over whether or not we believe in the latest instance of media .. that cumulative effect over time of lots of little instances of that, and some big ones too, eventually to build up to the point where we stop trusting media in general. #ai #politics https://thewalrus.ca/ai-and-politics-how-will-we-know-what-and-who-is-real/
#latestagecapitalism #paris #tourism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp84sRpM1Js
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has submitted data to the House of Commons agriculture committee which details how much retail #food prices have risen compared to the prices that farmers receive for their goods. #foodsecurity #inflation #economics #canada https://www.nfu.ca/gap-continues-to-widen-between-food-prices-that-consumers-pay-retailers-and-prices-farmers-receive/