Bits
A #visualization and walkthrough of an #LLM #algorithm – explore the algorithm down to every add & multiply, seeing the whole process in action. https://bbycroft.net/llm
“blogging plus feed readers started out a lot more decentralized than #bluesky has, and having one big player enter the room and then exit effectively killed the system. And that’s even without feed readers being particularly expensive or challenging to run as independent software.” #decentralization #federation #defi #activitypub #atproto https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
“So long as #bluesky can be a trap, I won’t let myself be tempted. My rule – I don’t join a service that I can’t leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it’s keeping me safe from danger I’ve sailed into too many times before.” #federation #decentralization #activitypub #mastodon https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
mastodon client https://phanpy.social
Sound & Music
My son’s latest track on #bandcamp https://gabriel-music.bandcamp.com/track/sacred-machine
The theme of the issue is “forgotten and re-emerging media formats,” but we’re seeking material on that, or any other culturally relevant or irrelevant topics. https://wfmu.org/lcd/
Kim Deal on her own https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/kim-deal-on-her-own
Love the way these #song #samples are visualized https://youtu.be/FpaoCUEhZJM?feature=shared
Travel
Film & Video
#folkhorror “Self-destruction is by no means a uniquely British trait. But there is something about that pairing of aristocratic idiocy and condescension paired with an irreverent pantomime silliness that is utterly unique. We seem to have forgotten – or rather, repressed – this schizophrenia lately. I feel that The Wicker Man, and so many great folk horror films of the ‘60s and ‘70s, not only were all too aware of it, they recognised its destructive nature.” https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_last_sacrifice_rupert_russells_new_film_examining_the_murder_that_inspi
Politics & Economics
The Ballad of Barrett Brown https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-ballad-of-barrett-brown.html
Nordic countries are distributing these pamphlets to their citizens https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf
“It tastes like the growing network of global shipping routes, and the increasing rotational speed of well-lubricated industrial machinery. It’s a flavour that announced the dawn of a new world, the flavour of mechanisation.” #food #technology https://aeon.co/essays/extra-virgin-olive-oil-is-the-flavour-of-mechanisation
“What if the psyche were a thing held in common? That is to say, what if our purchase on reality and the emergence of the self depended on human relationships and communities? From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging.” https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclosure-of-the-human-psyche
“Almost 47 percent of all food produced for Canadians is wasted annually” #foodsecurity https://thewalrus.ca/inside-second-harvests-fight-against-food-waste/