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an image of a female crested black macaque monkey is at the heart of a legal row between UK wildlife photographer David Slater and Wikimedia Commons over its status https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/01/article_0007.html via https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2024-01-11/

This desire to automate what can and must be human response is also simply a further indication of the dismissal of the importance of the labor of the primarily non-tenure-track faculty who teach courses like first-year writing … even entertaining the notion that the work can be done by generative AI shows the depth of scorn some administrators have for work that should be viewed as central to the institution. https://archive.ph/pBs1X

when disinformation is free, how can we restrict quality information to the privileged who choose to afford it? https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/01/24/the-information-grey-goo/

Music & Sound

A fantastic talk with Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker of on https://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=136214&archive=247346&starttime=1:02:04

The History of the Mellotron https://www.gearnews.com/british-giants-the-history-of-mellotron-the-worlds-first-sampler/

“accommodate many levels of attention without enforcing one in particular.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/music-for-airports-list

I somehow missed this 2021 https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993927925/negativland-tiny-desk-home-concert .. this is the bar by which live, online performances should be measured

Film & Video

I am Philbert now, but soon
I will be Whirlwind Dreamer.

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Powwow Highway .. the older cousin of

Politics & Economics

“We are seeing accidents happen. We are frightening the public. We are getting laws passed [banning the drug]. We are not using the anthropological approach of insinuating a valuable drug of this sort into our culture . . . gradually demonstrating the goodness of the thing.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Ftripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review

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Using as a medium to promote digital among young people in https://tacticaltech.org/news/stories/partners-impact-story-cauce-ciudadano/

Cathode Retro is a collection of shaders that combine to emulate the properties and artifacts of a color NTSC TV signal as well as the visual look of a Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) TV https://github.com/DeadlyRedCube/Cathode-Retro

“This is me saying we’ve worked on for four years with ~200 people full-time, and spent well north of $100M above revenue trying to turn the site around, but it hasn’t yet. That sucks, but I also want to recognized the effort of everyone who tried and gave their best.” https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733551497286172672/translation-of-internalspeak-to-externalspeak

he careened from drug-running pilot to alleged CIA asset, only to be reborn as the pioneering computer programmer known as the father of data fusion. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250209276/thehankshow

Sound & Music

The @wfmu Festival Tee https://suss.bandcamp.com/merch/ambient-country-festival-tee

One year, he was just different. He traded in his red baseball cap for a tartan beret, grew a huge handlebar mustache, and let his hair grow out. Not long, exactly, but certainly on the long side for an attorney. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thanksgiving-is-always-ruined-by-that-one-uncle-obsessed-with-steely-dan

“There were so many people at who were musicians themselves, or knew musicians or operated labels or made vinyl for people. I worry that this multinational corporation swooping in to buy Bandcamp and lay off half the staff maybe doesn’t fully understand what Bandcamp was.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Faftermath.site%2Fbandcamp-just-trying-to-keep-the-lights-on-following-epic-sale-layoffs

Politics & Economics

When created its own pension plan, in 1965, to address the growing poverty of retired Canadians sixty-five and older—thank you, Lester B. Pearson, for my monthly CPP cheque—the life expectancy of men, who made up the bulk of the workforce, was sixty-eight. https://thewalrus.ca/the-end-of-retirement/

“Higher Education for Good courageously offers critique, hope, and purpose for the practice and the trajectory of ” https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363